The hardware wasn't what I loved about the Commodore 64. It's the fact that I used it as a kid and played on them with my friends and learned programming with it. You can't really do it over again as an adult. I'm sure there are teenagers today who feel the same fondness over a Pentium 3 with Windows XP on it, it's what they used when they were 6 years old.
Do they have the same fondness, though? I think it's much harder to be fond of a generic computing box than something like a C-64, which was always and will always be a C-64. I'm sure kids today will be fond of their DS's, Xbox 360's, Wii's, etc., because those are unique platforms, but a generic PC box, I just don't know. I *guess* the same fondness could apply to say, Windows 7, or the latest MacOS, but I don't know, as those are still more abstract/universal concepts than a specific inside and out computer hardware brand and operating system (and yes, I know that the Mac platform comes close, but there are so many different - and constantly changing models - can anyone *really* identify with even a particular generation of Mac's?).
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
The hardware wasn't what I loved about the Commodore 64. It's the fact that I used it as a kid and played on them with my friends and learned programming with it. You can't really do it over again as an adult. I'm sure there are teenagers today who feel the same fondness over a Pentium 3 with Windows XP on it, it's what they used when they were 6 years old.
Do they have the same fondness, though? I think it's much harder to be fond of a generic computing box than something like a C-64, which was always and will always be a C-64. I'm sure kids today will be fond of their DS's, Xbox 360's, Wii's, etc., because those are unique platforms, but a generic PC box, I just don't know. I *guess* the same fondness could apply to say, Windows 7, or the latest MacOS, but I don't know, as those are still more abstract/universal concepts than a specific inside and out computer hardware brand and operating system (and yes, I know that the Mac platform comes close, but there are so many different - and constantly changing models - can anyone *really* identify with even a particular generation of Mac's?).
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.