On being gamer-adjacent Hi all. I have always wanted to be a gamer, but I have the hand/eye coordination of a walrus using a calculator watch.
When I was a kid — like 8 or 9 — my dad got us an Atari, and I played it all the time. But back then you had a single joystick with one button.
Hell, I am not even sure if I was any good at it, or if I just hit the button enough that I got lucky. We had Pong and Space Invaders, but I had the attention span of a hillbilly on meth, so I lost interest pretty fast.
Then we got Pac-Man and Frogger. The graphics on those left something to be desired on the home system. Poor little Pac-Man looked like two Devo hats with a wonky eye — nowhere near looking like a circle.