Flashback: 1991

I was born in 1986. I don't know when or how this happened, but I was not yet in school when my dad put me in front of a Macintosh. I was black and white, but like nothing I've ever seen before. There was this game where there seem to be a lounge full of weird characters and I could play air hockey against them. I didn't have enough coordination to win the matches, but I could make the paddle the whole length of the table (well, my dad could), which meant I'd win every single time. I thought that that was terribly clever. Of course, being the dad he is, he was trying to convince me not to cheat, but to no avail.

I now know, after some search, that the game was called Shufflepuck Café, it was released in 1989, and as we lived in Brazil, it's very much likely this didn't happen in 1989. More likely 1990 or 1991, which is a point where most of my early childhood memory lie.

And that was my first time operating a computer, as far as I know. And it was my first time operating a mouse, and operating a Macintosh. That would certainly have a few ripples on my life later on.

I am downloading Shufflepuck Café and I intend to replay it for the first time 33 years later.

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