![]() Unlike today, back then the most common kind of tournament was the one where you would have to play several different games within eliminatory systems. So when they announced one in the city of Porto Alegre I naturally became interested. ![]() The rental stores were responsible to hold the tournaments, and sometimes these tournaments were even among themselves. This way I never got to be an expert in a single game, there was always someone better than me because they would play the same game all the time, but in general you could say I was good. None of this save-as-you-walk thing was there to make the game easy, and you couldn’t simply go back 10 seconds to correct something you did wrong. And to get things worse, saving the progress was one hell of a rare thing for games back then, so many times when I’d die I would have to simply restart from the very beginning. So because of that I remember I would play everything I liked and also a lot that I didn’t like just so I could be that person. ![]() After all the rental was only paid by hour, so spending 30 minutes just to get past one objective was something you really wouldn’t like. In order to offer my clients a differential the rental store would need to have someone who understood everything about every game that could be found there, so this person would give them tips when they got stuck at some point in a game, for example. I used to always turn on the equipments just to leave a showcase of some games and just that would already be everything to them, it was a magical atmosphere. They’d come in and just look at the box of each game, each magazine and poster, then more people would arrive and they’d mainly talk about games, showing each other their favourites and which ones they had played the day before, while also feeling their pockets to see if they could maybe rent one together. Not everyone would go there to play, some people would arrive early, just as the store would open. The imported ones were extremely expensive, and having them on the rental store was a sign of great status among the concurrence. ![]() It was such different times, magazines were few and amateur, mainly aimed at the younger public. In the end, taxes showed me that life isn’t a marvellous bed of roses, but that’s another story. Then the opportunity for me to have my own video game store arose and that seemed like a great idea, after all I would be able to (and should) spend the whole day playing and still earn money with my job. The fact is that I’ve always loved electronic games, ever since those telegames came out (with those little sticks), even before the atari. That time certainly gave away some curious stories like that one I’ve already told you guys or, if you haven’t seen it, check out The Day Allejo Cried. As some of you (loyal) readers know I used to run a video game rental store, and that went on for many years (we’re talking about the tube TV decade). We really do deal with a lot of stress playing this game, so let’s take a little break and listen to one of uncle Silvio’s stories. In this new episode, “We never forget our first tournament!”, the author takes us on a journey into the past of videogames. At the end of the article you may know him a bit better too. Welcome to Tête-à-Tête with Silvio Teixeira: a very special opinionated area that we are proud to include on our website.įollow the wise, intelligent, humorous and insightful comments from Silvio. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push() ![]()
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