Originally posted by Eekhoorn:

Great times. In my memory the most romantic era of gaming. Everything was new, so inefficient, slow, bulky... sometimes even dangerous (bzzzt, ouch) and we all thought it was great! Probably looking with rose colored glasses... but man, those were the days.

And the thing is, things were moving so fast you could *see* the shape of the future. So many daydream conversations about real 3d graphics you couldn't tell from movies, multiplayer games with persistent worlds on remote servers, pocket computers like on Trek you can use on the go and plug into a big keyboard and screen at home. The only things we couldn't guess were the timings and the (dominance of) commercial parasites.

Oh yeah, and the internet leading to social media screwing up democracy. That one definitely dodged my radar.