How much do you know about the computer games that teenage boys will be asking for this Christmas?
If you were lucky enough to own a ZX80 games console in the late 70s then you were probably the envy of all your friends. Oh the excitement of the downhill skiing game! The joy of avoiding huge white square pixels with your cursor as they hurtled towards you at increasing speeds! Perhaps you even had a brilliant top score in the game of ‘pong’, the table tennis game with the rewarding ‘beep’ as the ball was successfully batted back over the electronic net. What satisfaction on a rainy afternoon!
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, computer games are a little different today. Processors are faster, computer memory is now enormous. Whereas it only took 17 bytes of memory to get the Apollo missions to the moon and back, the new releases are requiring upwards of 2,000,000 bytes to give you the opportunity to kill all the baddies.
