The coin op game industry lost the biscuit
When i was a teenager in college i spent 5 grand pounds on ghost and goblins and scramble down in NIHE Limerick in one year. I drank like a lunatic got pissed 7 bulmers cider 2 smithwicks 2 vodka and cycled home on my raleigh with 501 tubine from limerick city centre to my house without putting my hands on the handlebars after 2am. Then i cycled nihe limerick to mallow with rucksack on my back with stereo and no lights at night. I'd say my beautiful bike was seen it was stolen the following week. And then i failed college with a 1.17qca about 42% average convinced i did better than a D+ in digital electronics. I repeated in RTC cork and came out with 54.1% average in electronics engineering. Then i had a job in msd europe where the idea of sysadmin of a point of sales system was delete all files in castleblaney the job lasted 3 weeks. Then to PCSL where i was a games programmer i did lingo a amastrad cpc464 version of wurdle but far more complex a 120k game in 64k ram. I us...