What stuff was better when it was less complicated?

I still miss my Atari 2600, 40 years later. Those 8 bit characters were so darn cute!

I admit, you took the good with the bad! I liked the bleakness of Tank Battle, and the shell firing sound. Umm, lets not discuss the poor maneuverability of the tank which only had like 8 or 16 possible vectors of movement.

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Wow, i'll check about this, it sounds like there was a World of Tanks before World of Tanks. but I can also recommend Wotb, because the sound of the shells is quite realistic and the tanks too with different speeds depending on the models and the possibility of improving the vehicle.

@CSKA_Moscou said in #2:
> Wow, i'll check about this, it sounds like there was a World of Tanks before World of Tanks. but I can also recommend Wotb, because the sound of the shells is quite realistic and the tanks too with different speeds depending on the models and the possibility of improving the vehicle.

Our 70s and 80s generation had no video games before this 1st generation. Play wise, tank battle was weak. Asteroids, Space Invaders, Frogger and Pitfall were better.

back in the day you had like 95 printable ascii chars. now you have unicode. but not only one, but utf8, utf16, ...

@morphyms1817
I remember Tank Battle.
What a fantastic color scheme that game had.
Green,lol
Still at the time it was fun. I used to play it at the arcade.

On the topic of games I think pinball was great. Flippers,bumpers ,flashing lights,ringing bells,the sound of the point counter when you were racking them up.
You were getting good when you could finesse the game,the hip bump,the slap and double slap and surfing the breaking edge of tilt.It was quite a dance.
When I was a kid I used to go up to this bar to play pinball ( the game was in the foyer ( even though this was N Carolina in the 60s they still didn't let 10 year olds in the bar)).
The one game they had was Captain Fantastic.
I got so good on that game I could play for hours on a single quarter and usually left free games when I went home.
Things were different back then and parents didn't go into a panic if a kid was gone for a few hours though I don't know if my mom would have been any too happy to know her 10 year old son was hanging out at a bar playing pinball.

cooking. now, when you invite some friends, chances are each of them is on a different diet and wants you to make your groupmeal fit their each diet. level 2: you. as their cook, also have a certain diet that none of them shares. paleo, veggie, no traces of nuts, you name it.

Before Tank Battle and World of Tanks, there was Planet of Chariots. Before that was Orb of Unicycles. The first was Circle of Tarsal.

@mortmann said in #4:
> back in the day you had like 95 printable ascii chars.

Technically we still have only 95 printable ASCII characters.
> $ perl -e 'my $n = 0; for (1 .. 127) { $n++ if chr =~ /[[:print:]]/ }; print "$n\n"'
> 95

Mathmatics was a lot more fun before it got complicated