(We weren’t entirely agnostic , tho. We were merciless in ripping on the TRS-80, I’m ashamed to admit. Kids.)

All-in-all, those were definitely great times.

or something like that. My first system as well, lots of fond memories of the old C64. First games I played on it were Zork and Temple of Apshi. graduated to all the Phantasy games, the SSI strategy games and of course all the original EA games…. game of Mule anyone?

Th natual progresion was to an Amiga which I did that “upgrade”. I remember being so blown away by Dungeon Master - that game used stereo sound better than any game for the next 10 years.

Never had a C64, I had an aquarius and later on various MSX machines ;).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

I guess it’s like anything - your first love you never forget. Add to that all the excitment and fun of being a kid at the time, and the C64 was bound to have a hold on all of us that grew up with it. Things were just different then, and computers really were much more of an individual experience as the article notes. Now, computers are everywhere and most people have 2-3.

I remember when my dad got the C128 and the slimmer, quieter disk drive. I though that was the coolest thing I’d ever seen.

Errrr I mean I was on CNN doing research for work, IMPORTANT WORK RELATED RESEARCH. Let me just clarify that