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I got my first motorcycle, a Honda CB90, when I was in third grade. The bike was so tall and

The first time I played Car Wars, the board game developed by Steve Jackson, was in 1985. In seventh grade,

A lot of things about Double Dragon appealed to me as a teenager. For starters, the protagonists of the game,

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While the transition from 8-bit to 16-bit platforms offered new tools and additional processing power to developers, it also gave

I learned how to play chess when I was seven years old. My first chess board was a children’s edition

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In the early 1980s, home versions of arcade games rarely held a candle to their quarter-munching counterparts. Sure, some of

In the fall of 1986, Apple debuted the final computer in their Apple II line, the Apple IIgs. “GS” stood

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By the time I purchased my first PC in 1994, the Amiga market was fading fast. Software was still being

Yukon Software, my parents’ computer store, opened in the summer of 1985. The store sold software (and occasionally hardware) for

For a lot of kids in the 1980s, graduating from the Commodore 64 to the Amiga was a logical step.