Did you play this game as a kid?

[MusicMan321]

Do you remember playing the game Snood on your computer? I remember playing this as a kid it was a cool game I downloaded it and have it on my tablet

 

[unloadonme]

And how old are you now?

 

[rareboy]

omg....Computers weren't even a thing when I was a kid...

 

[me203]

omg....Computers weren't even a thing when I was a kid...

They were around, but I don't think that many families had one when I was in elementary school. My elementary school got the first couple of computers for students to use when I was in 6th grade. Games would likely have been far more primitive than Snood.

 

[smokeshadow]

OH, my goodness. . .MM, the RadioShack's TRS-80 home computer didn't come out until 1977, the year before I graduated from college. My sophmore year in college, I was required to take a computer programming course utilizing FORTRAN WATFOR that utilized punch cards. When I was a kid in the 1960's, computers were room sized if not building sized; and, no one had one in their home. Popular models included the IBM 1401, the UNIVAC 1107 or the NCR 315. My first computer I had custom built in the mid 1980's was based upon IBM's 386 chip.

 

[me203]

RadioShack's TRS-80 home computer didn't come out until 1977

I vaguely remember these. There were a few lying around my junior high in the early 80s, although most of the computers were the Model 3. I have to think that TRS-80 investment was bad--I think it was made with BASIC classes in mind, but they only had those classes a few years at that school (programming classes were high school only by the time I was in 8th grade). I remember doing some stupid math class program on those Model 3 machines in 8th grade--probably so the district could claim we got computer experience.

A science teacher also had us use the computer lab--and sometimes had us use those late 1970s TRS-80s that were lying around. Even though they were only a few years older, they were more primitive--I seem to recall that when used on some data sharing network the master comptuer had to be given an instruction to work more slowly or something. But technology moved fast back then.

 

[Vannie]

I was too busy with hopscotch.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Do you remember playing the game Snood on your computer? I remember playing this as a kid it was a cool game I downloaded it and have it on my tablet

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I was sooo jealous of anyone who had a computer in the 90's. Didn't get my first pc until Christmas 2007.

 

[smokeshadow]

What I remember about the TRS-80 was, once when a bunch of us were wandering the local mall one weekend, we came upon a display in the local Radio Shack with several of these computers. One wag in the bunch commented that it wouldn't surprise him if someday soon, everyone would have one of these computers in their home. The general concensus was. . .WHY?@?@?@??#??#? Little did we know that 45 or so years later, we'd carry our computers around on our wrist (Apple Watch) or in our hip pocket (Apple iPhone)

 

[Yooper]

Snood!!

 

[CuriousFox]

Galaxian was my intro to games late 70s, albeit at the local store and not own computer just yet. Loved it.

 

[me203]

What I remember about the TRS-80 was, once when a bunch of us were wandering the local mall one weekend, we came upon a display in the local Radio Shack with several of these computers. One wag in the bunch commented that it wouldn't surprise him if someday soon, everyone would have one of these computers in their home. The general concensus was. . .WHY?@?@?@??#??#? Little did we know that 45 or so years later, we'd carry our computers around on our wrist (Apple Watch) or in our hip pocket (Apple iPhone)

I remember seeing stuff written in that era that praised all the wonderful things one could do with a home computer. Balance your check book! Store recipes! Write letters! Of course, one could do all this using other methods--which didn't require a $2,000 (1980 dollars) investment, first.

 

[me203]

I think my parents talked a bit about getting a computer in the 1980s, but I think the argument was more likely than not the value of me getting exposed to the technology of the future. I truly doubt either thought there was much value for them.

 

[me203]

I was sooo jealous of anyone who had a computer in the 90's. Didn't get my first pc until Christmas 2007.

I had one in the 1990s, which I got as a student. Not sure it was "necessary" for what I was doing (the Jessica Fletcheresque Royal I got the summer after 9th grade was probably good enough!)--but I probably thought it was "necessary" and it was certainly a fun toy. But I didn't bother keeping up with the technology--I began to notice how fast it changed and what a black hole for money it was keeping up. When my first computer started acting up in the late 90s, I replaced with a similar era computer someone gave me. (I wasn't doing home Internet then--everything I needed to do could be done with 1990 technology. The Internet is the only real reason I need newer technology now--for many tasks, like word processing, 1990 technology would be good enough most of the time.)

 

[PalacePaul]

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Galaxian was my intro to games late 70s, albeit at the local store and not own computer just yet. Loved it.

Yeah, my first experiences were closer to this than to Snood

 

[Peloso]

When I was a kid we'd throw rocks at velociraptors and try not to get eaten.

 

[Alistair]

When I was a kid we'd throw rocks at velociraptors and try not to get eaten.

Wow. You’re younger than Vannie. They didnt even have stones back then

 

[smokeshadow]

Wow. You’re younger than Vannie. They didnt even have stones back then

they were known as dirt clods, not stones