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Commodore 64? Develop on it for it. So mebbe the revolution started without you... in the 80's. :)

I agree that we'll see a lot more games developed in garages and on weekends. And I think that's where a lot of the unique games come from. But this won't destroy the gaming industry at all. It will help usher out folks who shouldn't be in the industry in the first place.

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Any early computer. Heck, UNIX was developed so the bored team members could play games on an old minicomputer.

You got a link to back that one up?

No I read it in a book years ago. (Perhaps "Hackers", by Steven Levy.) The story, as I recall, was that Ken Thompson was working at Bell Labs, bored, and had an old PDP-7 (?) that had no software. He was bored and wanted something to run space war on, but to get there he needed an OS, compiler, etc.

You are right on that citation. Awesome, awesome book that really opened my eyes (as a 24 year old) as to just how far things had come.

See:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/spacetravel.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.pdf

Thank you. I have a better memory for trivial detail than sources!

I didn't say it would "destroy the gaming industry." I said, "It would destroy the gaming industry as we know it." Meaning that it could radically change the economics and the way we play and consume games.

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