I almost cried last week when Nichelle Nichols died. I'd met her at a few Star Trek conventions and she was a wonderful person. Really sad to see the old icons go.
My first computer was an Atari 400 with the cassette tape data storage unit. I was in Silicon Valley at the time and there were lots of small computer stores where you could go buy games on cassette. Shoot-em-ups, billiards, trivia games, a lot of indie games from local programmers and the such...
I was just doing another playthrough of F4... my first problem was the bug from the Tunnel Snakes add-on which breaks the very first quest 'Out of Time' and then I started to get the 0kb error that wouldn't let me save the game. Found out the error came from having mods installed but I've played...