*You're close; NES was the second wave. Remember: There was
PacMac Fever and Arcades before NES. In fact, Video games seemed
to be dying until NES. NES was death of Gen1.
Then NES launched GEN2. These are my categories only but I
suffered through many ups and downs through the years in
technology stagnation, renewal, stagnation, renewal..
*lol I looked it up - there's even a name for it- hah!!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Golden_age_of_arcade_video...
NES was the first REAL competition to arcade video games and
marked the beginning of the death of The Arcade, because the
quality was finally on-par with the stuff we paid a coin for. By
then I was bored by video games, thought it was "kids stuff" and
I should be MAN and do computers instead of programming for
video games, a dying industry.
A dying industry.
Man, I would've been wrong.... but there were a lot of "dead
years" inbetween NES and anything decent that came along to
finally compete in a real way. My first and last "hooks up to
the TV" console was the Intellivision, "Generation 2" according
to these lists.*
But I did video games on the PC. A lot of beta testing in the
1990s, including AD&D Neverwinter Nights Multiplayer thing in
1989/1990 (I still have the "Welcome to the Beta Test" package),
along with some of the early 3D interactive games (Castle
Wolfenstein, DOOM and there was one other that I can't
remember).
Then nothing.
Until Minecraft, 2011/2012-2014.*
But Castle Wolfenstein and Doom were strictly beta test. I
didn't find them fun. FPS were never much fun to me.
Even Neverwinter nights I took very seriously as a beta tester
but not as a gamer, although I built up some good characters.
Minecraft was probably the first video game I actually REALLY
ENJOYED.... although I can remember wasting lots of quarters
playing Double Dragon and their clones in Arcades for a few
years.
Lots of dark times.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games
