{"id":425,"date":"2008-09-28T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2008-09-28T00:35:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T16:35:04","slug":"when-i-was-just-a-little-boy-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"When I Was Just A Little Boy 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be exact, there wasn’t much feature of the computer when we were young. I was lucky as my dad got be an IBM PC 8086 XT with 20MB HDD and 1MB RAM (I remember hacking it to figure out how to utilize the “hi-mem” i.e. memory space beyond the famous 640KB that Bill Gates declared was more than enough for anything). <\/p>\n

Here’s an example of gaming devices for my age:<\/p>\n

Western Bar<\/strong> – basically a multilevel shoot-the-bad-guy game.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Super Mario<\/strong> on Nintendo (of course you know)<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/p>\n

But also, on the PC, I did have a good time with Dig Dug<\/a>, King Kong, Space Lander, and, interestingly, Nobunaga’s Ambition<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Of course the version I played was not as colorful and advanced. It was, in fact, monochrome, but the battlefields was already hexagon, and the number of parameters for a young boy to manage was substantial. It was a great optimizing exercise (much like how one would start doing calculations for Earth 2025<\/a>) and conquering all of Japan can take months. <\/p>\n

Another PC game that I played on the XT was Space Quest 3<\/strong><\/a> (oh I love that astro chicken mini-game inside, if you know what I’m talking about mp3<\/a>). There was a bunch of games like that (King Quest, and later Final Fantasy) but I couldn’t get my hands on them, so eventually the interests died off. But a story where you learn about thermal underwear, new vocab like “incinerate” (Roger Wilco was a janitor), and literally seeing how one could make such a complex graphic on my CGA (3 colors) monitor was thrilling to say the least! A lot of these thinking, of playing and then thinking how the system would be created, underlies the thinking I had later in university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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