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This doesn't have to be anything tangible. It doesn't have to be a game, or online subscription to Game Pass or anything. It just has to be related to gaming. For me, it came from @Rain Dew a couple days ago. She got me one of the greatest gifts I have ever received in my life. She was on Cameo, and she bought me a shout out from Roger Clark, aka Arthur Morgan. I got a video message from Arthur Morgan. I was in a stunned silence for over two hours. I eventually ended up throwing up. The shock was almost more than I could believe. I actually told her the next morning that I had dreamed it. She told me it was real and we watched the video again. Since then I have watched it over and over. I still can't believe it that I got a message from Arthur Morgan himself. He talked to me in his real voice and as Arthur. He gave me some tips on voice acting, which is something I'm really wanting to get into. It's still mind blowing.

The blockchain technology has changed how the games are operating these days. You can now own the character you play, that means when you upgrade your character it adds value to it, and later you can also sell your character.

I did play on an Atari in my very early youth in the late 80's early 90's, but my gaming "career" (if you like) didn't really get going properly until the mid-late 90's. There were magazines and the Games Master TV show, but knowledge of what games were good and bad as well as tips and such spread largely through word of mouth. Kids in school would pass around what they knew to thier friends and so on. I suppose the same thing happens online today just on a much larger scale with user reviews, user scores, social media and, not forgetting, internet forums. It would have been even worse for kids in the 70's and 80's because there was no real way to tell what games were good and games were what bad. Video games were just perceived differently as well. They were toys back then, so a review of a video would be taken with all the credibility of a review of a Barbie doll. Even when there was reviews of a game, the market was so saturated that only so many games got coverage. So yeah, that was the dark ages. The popularity of arcades were also a factor, the was just not as many people playing games at home. Still, even then, there was word of mouth, but that was really about it.

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It's the laughing man GIF for me, his laughter is so funny with the way he pulled back his head that it got me cracking hard.

I didn't expect anything less from what happened there.. 😂.

Yeah headsets have gotten really cheap these days. You can usually get a fairly cheap mic headset for $20-40 or so. The cheaper the worse it gets, but cheap isn't that bad. Owned a gaming headset for like 3 years that still works. The audio for it isn't that bad either and I only paid like $25 for it.

Lucky you. I'm working until right before Christmas. And then the day after I have an event I have to take care of. So yeah, fun times. But I'm guessing you're in school or college, in which case, stay a kid/teen as long as ya can lol.

Yep. They kind of "derailed" things a bit. 😅

My friends are total dicks when it comes to playing games with them. They are always looking forward to beating the hell out of you always.

Although, to some extent it looked like we were being a pain in the ass and it's probably why he felt that way.

Pac Man is definitely up there as a video series that's capable of hitting another 50 years in running with the first game release on July 1980 and the latest release on April 2021. That's about 40 years and still counting.

The modern consoles emulating the games are nice, but there is something to be said for playing classic games on classic hardware, that little extra nostalgia.

As long as we never see another year like 2020 again, I'm good.