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Woof! What kind of technical field are you in, may I ask?
Lack of a mouse would have eliminated my entire career and current hobbies. Electronic CAD, Home Design CAD, Solidworks design, Photoshop/Gimp/ Image processing and virtually any kind of graphics, any kind of spreadsheet analysis, and about 90% of advanced computing, medical imaging...
I would be a pauper if it weren't for the mouse! Thank you Xerox!!!
I'm a software engineer. I can touch type all the special characters. I'm far more efficient when my hands don't leave the keyboard. I've been using IBM Thinkpad and "Dude, you got a Dell" laptops with pointing devices on the keyboard since the about 1996. I've certainly used a mouse. I had a Macintosh on my desk most of the time from about 1986 to 1996. I did a lot of Motorola 68000 embedded cross development using Macintosh Programmers Workbench. There were also Apollo and Sun workstations mixed in there for a few years.
At the moment, I have a bunch of C code for an Intel Puma7-based cable modem up on my desktop on a Thinkpad.
Some of my Portland friends are techies, just about all are gamers. Two different animals. When I go on FB a lot of the discussion of one particular couple references gaming jargon. I don't understand because I'm not into it but I get what the topic is about.
Always loved Pinball machines. Wouldn't mind running into a rec room full of them and pool tables and maybe an air hockey and foozball now.
Black and White Ping Pong on my best friends Atari circa 1978(?). That's the extent of my console game exposure, lol.
1981, Donkey Kong and 1982 Pacman & Ms Pacman video game machines moving in next to the pinball machines. Insert Space Invaders here? Not sure...
1985, Quest of the Avatar in my Comodore 128/64. Bought the magazine for the game hacks and spent countless hours collecting hidden materials to make potions.
Somewhere in here a friend gave me a disk with Tetris/RAD which had been hacked out of Russia by Lord Brittish. Great game, thanks Lord B!
2005/2006 Runescape, my first MMORPG. Moved on to World of Warcraft once the game was destroyed. Still spent at least 5 years having a great time watching Runescape grow from a game of about 5 servers worldwide to a game with dozens of servers before it crashed and burned.
Didn't like the changes I saw coming in WoW after Wrath of the Lich King and started to play Perfect World. PWI had the best character creation of any game ever, and even started to allow INI edits. Progressed into the worst Pay 2 Win ever and my time in gaming started winding down.
Played Wizard 101 until my husband died, and then couldn't stand to log in anymore. Switched to Tera, which was fun for a bit, but it was losing steam. Havent played any games since - with the exception of Candy Crush and Soda Crush from time to time..
Im not sure if this thread is really about gaming, and if not - sorry I misunderstood, lol.
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For online MORPG, I always preferred the games with good crafting systems. I loved Istaria and Vanguard because of the crafting. I also enjoyed Villagers and Heroes until it became more and more pay to win. I haven't found any game that I would consider playing now as most new games are player versus player or have poor crafting systems.
We had so many different games and video systems. One of my fave Nintendo games was Legacy of the Wizard by Broderbund. Figuring out which character could enter and complete each dungeon maze or use each type of magical item. Both my son and I played this for hours on end.
For Playstation I enjoyed Suikoden I and II and so did my son (after he finished with his shooter/fighter games). Another fave of ours was Azure Dreams. Of course, this was in addition to the Final Fantasy and Ultima games.
I think back in the old days you sorta had to by default be slightly tech savvy to execute games. There weren't a lot of online resources to help you except for a few BBSs that you accessed with your 300 baud modems.
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