A bit of fun

Back in the days when computing was all about typing lengthy paragraphs of code, and marvelling that you could get a small cursor to bounce a white dot backwards and forwards across the black screen, games were far less sophisticated and sometimes a lot more fun.

ASTEROIDS was one such game, allowing you to move a small triangular spaceship around the screen, blowing up hurtling asteroids and alien flying saucers, before getting hit and disintegrating into flying shards.

Scroll down to the bottom of this Blog and you will be able to recapture those moments when you were your own Starship Captain, boldly going .....