I remember back in 1984 when nobody had that problem! Indeed, when I got my first computer there was no online gaming existing. When I think of it, there were not a lot of regular computer games on the market either. We were not even talking or thinking about online games! You can't miss what you don't know. Microsoft was in it's infancy. I wish I had bought some of their stocks then.
Yes, back then, what we would call today the prehistoric age of computer gaming was not really user friendly. Indeed you had to load a game from a cassette player (yes I said a cassette player) and we hoped for the best. Many times the download from the cassette player did not work. It took many tries and when we finally succeeded it took a long time to load, hey it was a big 4k program after all! My complete computer memory was 16k... but would you believe we were hypnotized and excited by the new technology behind it.
Computer Online Games - Nowadays
Today we about stopped counting the mega bytes, the pixels and the memory, who cares... everything is mega and mega whatever is cheap. But believe me. We had as much fun back then with less puny kilobytes than today with tons of them. Now we are kind of spoiled with new technologies coming out every month. You purchase a brand spanking new mega everything best computer, a top dog monster in fact but only months after, the beast will turn into a regular pooch then few months later it will transform into a poor little dog that can barely keep up with the quick moving new top dog computers behemoths... yes, such is life in the fast lane on the internet super highways where computers live a short exciting life and die fast. You can't even count the loads of "high tech has-been" road kills on each sides of the superhighway. Clear the way slow poke or die!
One day back in the prehistoric age of 1994, a new bright world emerged from the ocean of the dark lonely world of my computer desk. A new dawn. I remember clearly the first day I got my first modem. A big heavy cumbersome lighting fast 300 baud modem! The beast was loud and slow but it was also great since it opened up my small lonely computer world into a vast infinite internet great world by connecting me to a huge lifeline that will soon go around the planet. The online computer gaming period had just started! Whoo hoo it was a blast! I forgot to eat for a while and going to bed became an option.
