9 computer games that shaped this wizened Millennial
I was born thirty-eight years ago, dear readers, in 1982. You know how flattering it is when you’re asked for ID when buying booze? That feeling is increasingly rare. Sometimes my back hurts. The hour of the morning at which it is no longer tolerable to lie in bed without needing to piss ebbs further and further from dawn with each passing year.
I am old.
I am but a child of nostalgia.
And yet, sociologists classify those born as far back as the late 1970s as "Millennials".
I am an old Millennial, then – but by golly there's quite a difference between the decades.
Say what you like about the questionable music, fashion, politics and hair-dos of the 1980s, it won't detract from my generation's wonder in witnessing the exponential progress of technology, specifically in computer games.
Conversely, if you were born just a little later, in the 90s, games appeared before your doe eyes in the 2000s with seamless graphics and epic scale as standard, without any hint of how they reached such quality. With the 8-bit retro revolution making an aesthetic comeback among older gamers, you 90s babies must look upon them and frown – "But it looks all blocky and shit?"
