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The games you can remember from the past, the 80s of the last century. Almost everyone had a computer at home, but a bit different. The computers were not about gigahertz and megabytes of memory. It was a small computer, usual TV set and a joystick.

My computer was Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which was introduced in 1982 and it was dominating this part of Europe, hardly competing with Commodore 64 and Atari 800. It was a typical 8-bit computer with 48KB of RAM and 16KB of ROM. It had several “revolutionary” features, which were available on PCs in late 90s. It had a shared bus for graphics and processor, which was introduced to PCs in 90s, not earlier. The graphics was 256×192 points, which was pretty good for that time and 15 colors able to be shown at once. The external memory was a cassette and a cassette player.

As you can see, the games were not about “realistic” graphics, the game designers had to bring games, which people liked to play. I remember games, which had a terrible graphics, but I was able to play them for long hours. An atmosphere and the story of the game were the most important ingredients for the success.

Even on your Apple Mac you can play these old games. Many emulators are available to download and on the Internet, you can find a lot of archives with these old games. You do not have to worry about the legal issues as they are usually provided as abandonware.

You just need to download the emulator, install it and then select the game of your choice. As the games are small, you can have hundreds of them stored on your computer and you will not recognize any consumption of your hard drive.

In my point of view, the developers of the games should return to history to see how to develop games, people will really like to play.

And the emulator? My favorite FUSE, which does not consume a lot of your computer resources and you can configure a lot of features. Go and play games, when it is raining.

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