The first computer games I remember trying to play were on something called an Oric. It was like a keyboard that plugged in to the tv. My mates had the ZX Spectrum with tapes to load games from. Not me, I had a book full of syntex. Sat there for hours typing in the code eagerly waiting to play. Then sat there several more hours, correcting all the errors. Needless to say the enthusiasum didn't last.