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My favourite game on each platform I've owned. #ShareYourGames
#C16: Fingers Malone
#C64: Robot Rascals
#PCAT: North & South
#Gameboy: Tetris
#NES: SMB3
#SMS: Afterburner
#SNES: F-Zero
#PC486: Doom
#Wii: Wii Sports Resort
#PC586: Half-Life
#PC686 (?): Portal
(via @zorrobandito and @davetansley )
It is seen in trivial things, like people using walkmans at the start, then CD players, then MP3 players. Or Gameboys, then PSPs. Or the rise of the internet.
But it is also seen in the patient and staff story lines. At the start, every week seemed to have an HIV/AIDS story, it was everywhere. By the end, it was barely mentioned at all.
After being transfixed by season 1 of #ThePitt, I got a hankering for watching #ER again... dot dot dot... it's eight months later and I just finished the 15th and final season! Phew.
Honestly, it was great. Occasionally weird and frustrating, but never less than watchable. Sometimes it seemed to start stories and then forget all about them, but it added to the charm.
Most interesting thing for me was how it reflected changes in society over those 15 years, and how noticeable the changes were.
I'd somehow never seen Stallone's "Cobra", but I had played the #ZXSpectrum game, and had always wondered what role the rubber ducks, boxing gloves and runaway prams played in the movie.
Well, I watched it this afternoon and... my quest for knowledge continues. No idea what was going on there.
Is this what passes for modern "music" these days? Because I'm not digging it.
Oh, sorry, no, I don't do "my top X thing" internet memes...
Wait, it's about albums? In this, the year that I rediscovered the album? I'm in!