Here's my hardware history ...
6 years old - my first Ping-Pong games console, played on a black and white tv.
11 years old (early Eighties) - Atari 2600 with games like Enduro, Defender, Ms. Pac-Man, Pitfall and the great Pitfall II.
12 years old - CBS Colecovision (with graphics comparable to the C64). My favourite game was Miner 2049'er (platform game with static levels).
14 years old - Commodore 128. I played a little in BASIC V7.0, which had quite some interesting functions, such as a full-fledged sprite editor. But most of the time was spent in C64 mode playing games like Rambo, Commando, Henry's House, Impossible Mission, Winter Games, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Law of the West, Blue Max, etc. etc..
15 years old - Amiga 1000, which was very expensive in those days. I had to sell my C128 with pain in my heart and clean the toilets in my mother's boarding house for 3 years to afford the machine. But it was unequalled magic in my small adolescent room. My first games were Mindwalker, Marble Madness (That ROCKED!), Hacker etc. etc..
17 years old - Amiga 2000. During those days I started creating scene demos and commercial games for the Amiga, together with an Assembly programmer and a music composer. Check out this article for the full story as well as screenshots from our games:
http://www.metinseven.com/article_hoisaga.htm.
21 years old - Amiga 1200. We created the world's first ever AGA Amiga demo ("Planet Groove", from the "Hoi sAGA" trilogy) and released our game called Hoi in the shape of a special AGA remix.
24 years old - Amiga 4000. This was the last Amiga before I started using several PC models in 1997.
Cheers!
Metin
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