Bad habits..... In a loft somewhere I still have Astro wars, Scramble and Computer Battle ships - which should all still work :0) (not my pictures but these are the games). We have come a long way / VR headsets etc.
Oh man, I have been trying to find the electronic version of Battleship for my son. The most recent version only makes sounds (you do not enter the ship coordinates). I had one of these in my youth, but it stopped working after just a couple months. My dad was not handy with minor electric repairs, so it went into the trash :-(
Hoping to build a mid-level gaming desktop for my son in the next 3 weeks, but the graphics card issue is disheartening. And prebuilt pricing is pretty silly right now as well. Seems like a $500 or so premium these days due to shortages and scalpers.
Which graphics cards were you looking at for your build? When the new generation nvidia cards came out I know it was extremely difficult to get one. Hundreds of people waiting outside of stores for countless hours just to have a shot at 10-15 cards. Me and my brother have had some success going to microcenter stores. Maybe try those? Also, from what I read I would be wary of open box GPU's as those tend to be returned by people who were using them for mining. Hopefully you can find a solution I know it can be very frustrating.
After years of not touching the stove, knowing it was dangerous, I went ahead and bought factorio a couple of months ago. It's every bit as addictive as I feared.
I’ve always enjoyed multiplayer party games like Mario party, smash bros, goldeneye on n64, towerfall
alas the fast twitch starts to go away at 28 and crafty wiles of someone playing FPS’s longer then his competition can only go so far.
Last century, I played MS Combat Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator II online with a bunch of virtual friends. 😉
I did a little development work as well with Microsoft Game Studio.
For a number of years - early 2002 until about 6 or 8 years ago, it was the mmog Battleground Europe/World War II Online that held me captive. WWIIOL is a persistent 7x24x365 game for grognards and history enthusiasts and some twitch-players as well.
As is the case here, one gets to meet people from all over the globe. One can find at least some players online in any timezone. The 'glory days' are over though. There aren't nearly as many players today as there were years ago.
It was very addictive. Glad I was able to put it behind me, though it was a lot of fun once upon a time. 😉
Edit: I did build a couple of gaming computers over the years including this one:
Obviously, the photo above was taken for illustration purposes only and before final cable-dressing.
Cable management is "my middle name." 😉
At the time, I was showing off the dual water-cooling circuitry to friends. There was one cooling circuit with it's own pump to cool the twin video cards in SLI mode, complete with it's own reservoir, radiator and cooling fan and there was the primary cooling circuit for the CPU and chipset, also with an independent pump, reservoir and cooling radiator.
The thing was folly. One had to top it off frequently or risk destruction!
But back then, water cooling was the rage as the CPUs and GPUs could not provide the frame-rate needed by the game-addicted.
To look back at it now, it was rather silly.
Of course, the BIG news today...... MS buys Activision-Blizzard for $70B
