Twelve years ago, I lived in an apartment in a cozy little corner of Bangalore city. The year was 1996, and I went to meet this guy who lived in the apartment complex right next to mine. Depsite the fact that he was as old as me, nine, he was still a prick, which explains why I didn’t hang out with him enough. What I did remember was I went to house once and he had a game running on his PC, a blazing fast Win 3.1 Machine (Remember kids, this was 1996), and he fires up this one game; I don’t remember the title, but just catch the word “lotus”. What I *do* remember was the music of the game.
Those two minutes when the game intro played twelve years ago once, was burned into my memory and I couldn’t forget it. I associated that one tune, which I could remember off the top of my head with victory, power and all around goodness.
Today, my friend came over and one thing led to another, and we ended up trying to gather up bits and figments from our childhoods. Among them were small games we used to play in the 90s. After some Duke Nukem II, I decided I *must* find this, and went looking armed only with my knowledge of the internet and the word, “lotus”. After some searching for the different games I tried to find some music which was hard at first, and then I realized I’d forgotten about youtube, where you find tons of stuff like this.
And after twelve years of only a tune stuck in my head, I finally found the song, and it’s exactly the way I remember it, check it out:
I played Prince of Persia back in 1996. First in the class to have a computer at home
Here’s the Wikipedia entry for Lotus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_(computer_games)
The first computer I *ever* used was in 1998/1999 running Windows 95…it’s only your first computer that is your true love, I guess. The love for it only matures with time.
[quote comment="1098"]I played Prince of Persia back in 1996. First in the class to have a computer at home ;-)[/quote]
Prince was among the quintessential games of the early 90s. I don’t remember how they even got on everyone’s computer. *everyone* had a copy of prince, which is odd, but still, prince was a great game.
[quote comment="1107"]Here’s the Wikipedia entry for Lotus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_(computer_games)
The first computer I *ever* used was in 1998/1999 running Windows 95…it’s only your first computer that is your true love, I guess. The love for it only matures with time.[/quote]
Yes, I think I understand what you’re saying. I do not feel the desire for the most good looking and advanced games now, yet even a few dancing pixels on screen a few years back would sedate me.