A NOSTALGIC DAY IN ZWOLLE (we visited a vintage computer and gaming museum)

[@dinekevinke2268]

I saw this video a bit late but yay I live in Zwolle and I love it here 😊

[@BARTGARMYN]

My first computer was a commodore 64. We bought it with 3 brothers as kids . It was 2nd handed from al local radio station via our mother who worked there as a reporter. This was around 1985. We started to learn BASIC and managed to program our first little programs. First we only had a tape recorder, but we saved enough money as kids to buy a floppy disk !! Much easyer to play lots of games (nostalgia)

[@rayderrich]

I totally rreember this and did this as well with my brother. ZX-81 and ZX Spectrum times!

[@matthieumeewis]

My hometown! Nice. My favourite hangouts are either the beach bar on the waterfront(tbh, just the waterfront, the bar is a bonus), or the square that has the City Hall(next to the Zwolse Balletjeshuis.)

[@Lindalupos]

Lovely video! I was born in Zwolle, nice to see all thos familiar places. Although as someone who is a guide in the basilica attached to the Peperbus, I'm mildly annoyed that you went inside the Grote Kerk but NOT inside the basilica. ;) You have to go back!

[@ronaldv_tm]

My first computer was the Sinclair ZX-81 (1982-1983), sold in the US as the Timex ZX-81. It was followed by the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum (1984), which was followed by a proper IBM-compatible desktop in 1987.

[@michaeljdrost]

Exactly my digital trajectory! I had the 16k extension for the ZX-81, I had the 48k Spectrum followed by the 128k and then went 286AT with an HD and 1MB RAM. I could do 640x480 with 16 colours!

[@Jordan_Artzy]

Eyy guyzz. If you ever visit Zwolle again. Ye gotta see waanders in de broeren. It's this church turned into a book store and even has a small area where you can grab a drink or some food if you like. It's so gorgeous and definitely worth visiting👏

[@buncharted]

we meant to go but totally forgot :( it looks really cool - we def gotta see it!

[@swollenaor]

It isnt called waanders anymore 😢

[@Jordan_Artzy]

@@swollenaor ayo i didn't know that??😭😭😭😭

[@Jordan_Artzy]

@@buncharted eyy datzz all fine lolzz. But ye it do be really cool. Def worth a visit if you visit Zwolle again👀👀👏

[@swollenaor]

@@Jordan_Artzy yup, just look it up, waanders just sold it to the new guys, still the same tho

[@Jeroen1969G]

My passion is travelling to all the fortress cities in the netherlands, because the history of the eighty years war is very interesting. That's the reason why they are built, to protect the Netherlands against Spain. A few tips of the most original fortress cities are Naarden, Bourtange, Hulst, Gorinchem (you can optional also go to the castle 'Loevestein' in the neighbourhood). There are so much more, but the more smaller fortress cities, do I find personally, the most beautifull.

[@palacioladiante2871]

Have you also seen the church which is converted into a library?

[@maevajesse]

Great place! 😍

[@raatroc]

My first "computer" at home was a Sinclair ZX80 on which I learned my first programming. Yep, I'm that old! And btw I bought it in Zwolle where I lived at the time. Fun fact is that my first office was in the Sassenpoort and it housed the provincial archives of Overijssel, soon after that we moved to a new building just out of the city center.

[@jarnobot]

My first computer came from my fathers work. They were replacing their systems, so the old systems were given (or maybe sold for cheap, I'm not sure) to employees. It was a Windows 98 system that was designed for office work, so it wasn't great for gaming, but it was my own system and I did game on it anyway. He later got me a better system, although it was still an office computer. I played a lot of games on that system and it was only until 2010 that I build my first real gaming system myself. My first console was actually a handheld console: The Gameboy Advance SP. I loved that system and still have fond memories of it. I sold it a few years later so I could buy a Sony PSP, which I still somewhat regret. But then I remember that my PSP was just as memorable and iconic in my childhood, if not more. I still have it and it still works. Lesson learned, I'm never going to sell that PSP.

[@daviddesert3132]

I visited Zwolle 1998. Driving from Sweden to the UK, we stopped more by chance. That night l got a full Dutch football experience. A world Cup match! The bar had turf on it...the rest was a drunk orange blurr. Nice little town. I will stop again.

[@pjkr123]

Zwolle is a city where I didn't realized I will fall in love with the city (due to sudden NS storing :( )

[@swollenaor]

Really enjoyed the vlog of my hometown. Few fun facts: Zwolle has a dedicated lego store not far from La cucracha, cafe engel is directly across city hall and during WW 2, zwolle was liberated a canadian guy. He did that basically single handed. Hope you guys will coma again but then explore the city more, just like any city there is more😂. Have a great day.

[@tns5044]

We got a Commodore 64 as our first computer. The first one I bought for myself was a Macintosh Plus in 1986, it cost an absolute fortune. Fun episode guys, also really appreciate your efforts to learn Dutch. It shows how much you like it here.

[@daphnelovesL]

One with the extra chip to make it faster with extra button to push on

[@davidxje]

@daphneschuring5810 Final cartridge III gang

[@tns5044]

Even had the fancy 1541 disk drive and a 13" colour TV

[@Just_Klaas]

I was born in Zwolle and now live in Zoetermeer. What I miss is the story why the people born in Zwolle were called Blauwfingers (Bluefingers). My first computer was a Zharp MZ 700 with a cassette player. You first had to rewind the cassette to 0 and then start it until it was at 100 and then the computer was started and you could use other programs with other cassettes.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Good upgrade computer-museum-wise. For town atmosphere not so much.

[@Nitzpitz]

Great vlog, Zwolle is such a beautiful city

[@JasonRamosNJ]

Thank you for the video! I am planning my 14th trip to Netherlands. I want to explore outside of my comfort zone (Leiden, Utrecht Haarlem, Alkmaar, Rotterdam, Delft, Schiedam, Den Hague, and Amsterdam) to try out Zwolle, Gronigen, and Amersfoort this trip.

[@WillHsiung]

51 years old from Chicago, who visited the Netherlands last month, with first gaming system the Atari 2600 in 1981 and first computer the Apple IIe as Christmas 1983 gift.

[@buncharted]

wow that’s a great christmas gift!!

[@nyoko2926]

As always I enjoyed your vlog! My first computer was the Commodore 64, with tapes: the toothbrush game, pacman and the 3D space ball game. I remember that my mom wanted to vacuum and cut the power from the computer, I had to load it all over again! Priceless 🙂

[@allp84]

We did not have oregon trail. We did have thuis in het milieu. Also there is an arcade museum in Zoetermeer.

[@sergeleon1163]

Awesome and as a nerd myself, my first game console was a dedicated Pong TV game that I had hooked up to a small black&white TV set, my first computer a Commodore 64, followed by 8086 IBM PC all the way to current PC's as well as all generations of game consoles and handhelds, from where I still today have some as a part of my personal collection.

[@MrPAlberst2]

So nice to see the city i've lived close by for over 25 years now. Through a newbe eye.. Sweet...Nice vlog again. I live in Zwartsluis. If you visit Giethoorn you pass it...And yes, i watched your Groningen en Drenthe vlogs also. Being born in Groningen and lived in Drenthe for almost 20 years...

[@reviewerdiogeones5857]

Hey there you two! Enjoyed your video about Zwolle. You forgot to mention Zwolle used to be a member of the Hansa empire. Anyways, about old and beautiful fortified cities, we live in the most beautiful one, Naarden. It has a unique two ring defense line, while the small city itself is breathing with history wherever you go. BTW, thanks for pointing out the Zwolse balletjes. Never paid much attention to it, but Michelle did a fantastic sales pitch. Last thing, the first computer I played with was a Sinclair ZX. Years later I was able to purchase my own PC as an IBM employee, a shiny PS/2. Costed a fortune, but it had a nice 13 inch VGA screen. It also had the first 3.5" diskettes. A trip down memory lane... Zwolle is only one hour away by car, we come there regularly visiting friends.

[@peterjaro6804]

Zx 81... and then, the ZX Spectrum. Later I also had a 'calculator' with full keyboard (hand-held computer). I think it was called Sharp 1211.

[@corrbhan5138]

My first computer was a Tandy (Radio Shack in the US) TRS-80. Did a lot of programming in BASIC on that thing!

[@buncharted]

yeah!!! that was my real first computer before the compaq i mention in the video. learned basic on it and played a lot of jeopardy on a floppy disk :)

[@tns5044]

My dad had a TRS-80 at work, must’ve been the late '70s. It was the first computer I ever got close to.

[@corrbhan5138]

@@buncharted You had the luxury of a floppy? When I bought my TRS-80 (late seventies), a floppy drive was a very expensive extra. I had to make do with a compact cassette player for storage. :)

[@itomg]

Looks like a fun day: good food and games. I does bring back memories. In the 80th I was programming on a mainframe, but at home I had an Acorn Electron. Not the best game-computer at the time, but it had some interesting features for programming. I've spend a lot of hours with that thing. Have fun exploring this country! I'm looking forward to your adventures and discoveries. Thanks

[@crazy_spirit_of_a_life529]

Merveilleux

[@Lumos89]

Supercool arcade hall, and mortal Kombat. Nice. My first was the super Nintendo

[@ShadowDrakken]

My first computer, which I still own to this day, was a TRS-80 Color Computer II, maxed out with 64K of RAM. But I only had the cassette tape deck, never got the floppy drive :) My first game console was the Atari 2600. My family went through like three of them and countless joysticks we played so much XD

[@IgorEngelen1974]

omg , need to check out that museum 😲

[@itllbe]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Games came on audio cassetes. Moved on to Amiga 500 after that, which used 1.44MB floppy disks.

[@jeroencote5212]

Bourtange (i think mention that once already) is the place to be as that is still a complete fort. Another nice tip for if you visit Ireland is Kinsale, the fort on the left side of the bay has the dutch fort layout on the land side which was really weird to discover that part of the fort was improved by the dutch (on behest of the william II of england to keep his uncle out of Ireland). Also Kinsale is a great place to go if you ever go to Ireland 😀

[@ktrmeadow]

I just watched house hunters intl yesterday from Zwolle. Yes, I’ve only changed trains there. Looks like a town for our next visit. I’m all about Mexican too!

[@buncharted]

we love house hunters international but haven’t watched it since moving - we’ll have to check that episode out! and all of the other netherlands ones!

[@TregMediaHD]

You came to my town ❤

[@renevaanhold]

My first computer was an IBM S/36 and the programming language was RPG-II. It utilized "magazines"-boxes of 8-inch floppies.

[@ElMariachi1337]

My first one was the NES with ofcourse Duck Hunt from your vid and Super Mario among others. We also had some IBM computer in our house since my uncle worked there, but not sure what type it was.

[@Meppeler1971]

My first console was the Coleco Vision (1982)... first time in touch of computer gaming... still have it on the attic... my first pc was the a x286-processor computer round 1990

[@AK-yz4ut]

C64 with casetteplayer. Later on upgraded to a 5,25 floppy disc. Then a Amiga 500.. Great days!

[@roelvandervelde3043]

If you visit Zwolle again take the lokal train to kampen very nice river front old City a rivel City from Zwolle in the past

[@mver191]

My first "console" was a MSX, followed by the NES when I was like 5. My first PC was a 286 that could only display yellow. Yes, we did have oregon trail on our computers on school but kids would know more about computers than teachers back in the day so we also sneakily installed the Lion king, Aladdin, and Doom which we played way more.

[@NeoOnyx]

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 (I still have it in the attic somewhere). And yeah, I'm that old ;-) The Sinclair only had like 21K RAM, but I could spend hours on it, writing little programs in BASIC. When I started working in an office, I worked with an Apple Hypercard computer with an EGA monitor, on which we could play the very first King's Quest. My first game computer was a SEGA and the first game I played was Sonic The Hedgehog. Thanks for making me reminisce 🙂

[@markje163]

Intel 80286 (PC of my dad) 1988. Lemmings ftw. And I will never forget the sound of a Star Micronics NP-10 Dot Matrix Printer.

[@gusknip]

My first computer was an IBM PC jr. my parents won in a church raffle back in the early/mid 80's. If I remember correctly it had 128 kB of RAM, a 5.25 -inch floppy drive and some cartrige slots? King's Quest (1) was actually pretty fun on that. Later family computers were a 286-clone that was actually pretty fast for 1990/91 (we could keep up with 386s for a good while) and a Pentium machine that was our first Internet-capable machine in 1995. Then I had my first PC, a Pentium clone, I think (maybe a Pentium 2?), that I managed to upgrade a good bit over a few years, and haven't looked back since.

[@RocketJr.]

I think my dad bought a Videopac G7000 in 1980 (the European version of the Magnavox Odyssey 2 from 1978). And later on a Commedore 64, which was a huge upgrade. 😸

[@jongvyn]

First "computer" was my Sinclair ZX81, still have it and it still works.....after that the PC came and that needed to be IBM compatible. Sweet memories.

[@ilonkagootjes858]

Ours was a commodore 64 and Atari later. Nice vlog

[@bookiemeow173]

My first computer was a MSX 1 with tapes :)

[@martiekr]

My first Computer was a (kit/build yourself computer) "Acorn Atom" My second one was a "Tulip Compact 2" XT Computer (running MS-Dos 3.3).

[@Benny_000]

If you want to visit a unique area of The Netherlands, the region of Twente might be interesting. Twente was at the center of the worldwide textile industry in the 19th and early 20th century, together with Manchester in the UK. This makes cities like Enschede and Hengelo unique in our country. These cities might not be as picturesque as cities build in the 16th and 17th centuries, but there are a lot of great buildings from that time that have been converted and the textile bosses donated some of their estates to the city of Enschede. Since you've now seen most of The Netherlands, Twente might definitely be worth your while!

[@buncharted]

we definitely want to visit that part of the netherlands. enschede has been on our list for a long time - it’s just a bit far for a day trip for us!

[@renevaanhold]

Yes, Twente is beautiful. Especially the countryside! I was born in beautiful Maastricht. After 18 years I moved to Utrecht to study and I stayed there for 42 years. Great time! Now we are living in Borne, in the heart of Twente. My parents were born here (Enschede and Glanerbrug). Next year we're moving to sunny Curaçao to help a startup company. See you there! 🇨🇼🇭🇺

[@BabzV]

Girl I really love your haircut in this one. Perfect length, nice and flowy. 👌

[@bertkassing8541]

Oh boy, I feel so old now. In the early 80's I bought my first home computer. A Sinclair ZX80. Later I bought a Commodore 64. After that I had a Sony MSX and I think in 1985 I had a Honeywell XT PC (my wife worked at Honeywell).

[@prairiepirate]

Looks like a fun museum. Good to see you guys found some decent Mexican. My first home computer was technically a free 286 I got from the library I worked for, but I count the Gateway 486 I got in 1998. Still use those Bose speakers today. The first computer games I played would be several back in 1977. Pong on a table console in the La Quinta motel across the street from Disney World. That handheld football game. And the mainframe-based Star Trek text game that we accessed from middle school via an actual Bell telephone modem cradle.

[@davidc.w.2908]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 that loaded from a cassette player and had two joysticks attached to it for 2 player games. Those joysticks didn’t last long because lots of games required ultra fast movements to get through levels. Years after that we got an IBM compatible PC with a 486 CPU in it. We got that PC from a “thuis computer” project, which basically meant that you got a computer through your work and could pay in terms and without having to pay taxes. It was a way of the government to stimulate people having computers at home. Four years after the 486 we were able to get a new PC with a Pentium Pro CPU, just before the government cancelled these projects because it costed too much money.

[@whatElse88]

Deventer is also a very beautiful city especially during spring/summertime 😊(I was born there) or Breda, live there now

[@MichelBaek]

My first console was a PS2. Very nostalgic with memory cards and controllers with wire over the table knocking over things. I had many games like GTA San Andreas, Bully, The Godfather, Hitman and many fighting games. Luckily many old games are still available on my PS5. I love to play them once a year or so for nostalgia. ❤❤❤

[@Bduh2]

My first "computer" was a Commodore 64 with all the bells and whistles, followed by a Dutch brand: Tulip Computer, an IBM 8088 PC. Then, when I moved to The USA, my next one was a Gateway Pentium when they first came on the market. Then I start building my own pc's.

[@KeesBoons]

The prune candy is probably made of Reine Claude (Greengage?) prunes. We used to have a soda made of these in the past. I don't know if it's still around. It really has a specific taste. My favorite prune, but only available a short period of time each year and they must not be too ripe. My first computer was a home build personal computer (286 AT). Never played the Oregon Trail, but must have heard about it a million times by now.

[@marcelrombouts8607]

2nd Gen. baby! My earliest computergaming memories are playing on a home-built pong-console (my father was an electronics hobbyist; the schematics came from a magazine). We called it T.V. tennis. After that Astroids on the ATARI 2600.

[@Mdgd63]

My first computer was a home computer called Spectravideo SVI-328 MKII, with program cartridges for example a word processor and of course a cassette player to save your files.

[@DrDre-ir4gu]

The first home computer (sponsored PC home project at my dad’s work) when I was a kid, was a Philips PT2000., launched in 1981. Software/programs had to be slotted in with modules and saving data was done on very small tape cassettes.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

The P2000T. Do you still have it? Software was on tapes as well, you had to download it over the phone line, it was the Steam server/App store before the internet.

[@DrDre-ir4gu]

@@lovemadeinjapan nope, all recycled many years ago.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

@@DrDre-ir4gu Recycled..... OMG!

[@Stormvogel262]

My first console was a sega 8 bit I got in the early 90's. Been gaming ever since.

[@mariohendriks1]

Mine was the Fujitsu ICL with a 486 processor and 4MB of RAM (later upgraded to 12MB). It came with Encarta 95 and Kyrandia 3. And the coolest thing was that it was black, that was a novelty back then. 🤣

[@buncharted]

encarta! imagine life without wikipedia :)

[@sanderdeboer6034]

First computer was a ZX Spectrum by Sinclair. First gaming console = Atari 2600. First PC = Tulip (Dutch brand that took over Commodore in 1997)

[@buncharted]

they had tons of tulip computers at the museum!

[@AudieHolland]

Atari 2600 But for serious gaming, switched to a Commodore 64. At the time, the early 1980s and beyond, the Commodore 64 was exploding in Germany. As soon as people knew we had a C=64, we were offered FREE GAMES which came all the way from Germany. But we did buy the games we really really loved, like Silent Service, Gunship, Project Stealthfighter, Defender of the Crown, and of course Sid Meier's Pirates! All of these games, except Defender of the Crown, which was a rather simple but gorgeous looking strategy-arcade game, came with extensive, official looking manuals (how to fly a helicopter at low level without getting shot down or crashing into hillsides, submarine warfare tactics, etc.).

[@patje89]

You almost haven't aged a bit in 17 years! I first played on a computer when I was barely 18 months old, it was a Philips MSX II, which my father bought brand new in '86 a couple of years earlier. To this day I still have the machine I took from my father and it is still working fine!

[@NaomiClareNL]

My first computer was a Commodore 64. You missed a very nice and (perhaps not so) subtle piece of artwork at the station in Zwolle. To be fair, it is more obvious at night. Look at the clock in the top of the facade. When the line from Zwolle to Emmen was electrified in the early 80s every station got a piece of art. The one at Zwolle consists of a plus and minus sign beside the clock. A nice pun on trains and their schedules...

[@buncharted]

i was wondering what that was! i didn't realize that it was art!

[@carpor911]

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 (actually it was my dad's). It was in 1983 when he bought it. I learned to program in Basic and Pascel.... wrote in Basic a calculation program for gears....during my internship at a gear factory..... My teacher didn't know what to do with it......(although I printed out the program) he didn't have a computer....... Then I had one classmate with a computer but they weren't compatible

[@maaiker2977]

You can actually climb De Peperbus and see all of Zwolle. Its nice. Also I can recommend ice creme from Salute. Next to it you can see some of the city wall thats still in tact. When I was a child you were still allowed to walk on the wall....now its locked though. Also De Sassenpoort has a secret passageway into what used to be an inn but I think its a hairdresser now. It was so that the guards could switch shifts without being seen back in the day. I love the historic elements of Zwolle. There is actually old footage of zwolle hundreds of years ago ....its exactly the same just the fashion changed and horses instead of cars. 😂

[@buncharted]

and there probably wasn’t a sushi restaurant inside of the church back then 😂

[@maaiker2977]

@@buncharted and a bookstore and cafe in the other church. 🤣

[@wimschoenmakers5463]

My first computer was a Acorn Atom in the early eighties. I had to build the computer myself from scratch. That took me three weeks. I still own it and it also works !!

[@buncharted]

hey that's awesome!! i wish i had my old PCs still!

[@cosmogroot9857]

Hope you visit Bergen op Zoom someday. It’s about a 40 min commute with a direct train line from Dordrecht 👍

[@sommid]

So after exploring all provinces in our tiny country I suggest that you guys explore the overseas territories of the Netherlands 😂

[@buncharted]

we definitely want to but it’s a wee bit more expensive 🥲

[@Zerocool-kb4ej]

@@buncharted and not so easy travelling by train 😅😉

[@AdSchrijver-d1t]

I had a Tandy TRS80 as my first console

[@MarceldeJong]

I'll be visiting Bonami very soon. No I did not play the Oregon Trail when I was in school. Then again, my primary school only had 1 PC. And my middle school(? School systems are weird) didn't care much for games as education. My first computer was an MSX. My first PC was an 8088 with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive storage. Man, I'm old!

[@gjalie]

The NES was my first console, next to Mario and Duck Hunt i really played Double Dragon a lot.

[@anouk6644]

My first was the Donkey Kong handheld gameconsole (yes, I’m that old 😅😂) and a MSX I believe with a separate machine for a cassette tape to ‘load’ the games

[@davevanbeers6944]

Lol huge nerds! 😊😂 not sure what the Oregon trail game is so nope did not play. But I’m a gen x (er) soo might just be too old. My first computer game was Balderdash, tho I’m thinking that there might have been like some Atari games out there at that time

[@worldofnuance]

Very cool museum. Definitely would like to go there some day. Is it unlimited free play for the arcade games or is there a time limit? Btw, my first game console? A regular NES with duck hunt included!

[@buncharted]

unlimited free play with a ticket to the museum!

[@ericvdwilt4741]

for work: ibm 3741(1978/9), private pong atari (i think 1976/7) (i feel old now😥)

[@BrazenNL]

Right, so I'm going to date myself here … My first computer was a 6502. The first games I played were Star Trek and The Wumpus. Loved the Nancy Reagan pinball machine!

[@Zerocool-kb4ej]

My first computer was a Philips MSX 2 and i played a lot of Metal Gear on it. My first cosole was the 8-bit Nintendo. it came with the Super Mario bros. / Duckhunt combo

[@SemVeen_]

Gosh mum and dad visited my town and they didn’t even call ❤😭

[@buncharted]

😂 ❤️

[@eddys.3524]

My first computer? An Olivetti M24 (AT&T 6300), 8mhz 8086 (full 16bit), 128kb and 1 5,25 360kb FD.. was bloody expensive in those days. still got it somewhere.. Software? Turbo Pascal 2.0

[@buncharted]

i wish i still had my original computer!

[@ronnydeboer9014]

leuk jullie in mijd stad te zien

[@jeffafa3096]

I used to own a Sega 8-bit console, with the first Sonic game programmed into it. I loved that console soo much, but I was really sad when it broke, because at that point, you could not buy them anymore...

[@peterf1]

Ah the content is soo good here. Yes, like cookie, cole slaw is (another) one of those Dutch contributions to our English. But honestly, I was eagerly waiting for the computer museum. Retro computers! Retro Alex! Retro Michelle! What's not to like? That looks like a Mac XL, an evolution of the Lisa, before the Mac came out. I remember having to use an external drive to load an image onto one, because the HD of the computer was too small to hold early pre-layers Photoshop AND the single image at the same time! My first computer that I owned, long after I had been using company computers... UMAX SuperMac S900. Power baby! Good times.

[@buncharted]

i think that was the famous lisa!

[@peterf1]

@@buncharted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL

[@buncharted]

@peterf1 WE WERE TRICKED 😂

[@Dutch1961]

My first computer was an Atari 800XL.

[@Mesmancer]

Compaq dat is een naam die ik lang niet heb gehoord. Inmiddels al lang overgenomen samen met Packard Hell (sorry Packard Bell) door HP. De eerste computer die mijn vader had, was een Headstart Explorer van V&D (inmiddels ook al ter ziele) met een harde schijf van wel 40 megabyte en een oranje / zwart monochrome scherm. De eerste PC die ik zelf kocht was een zelfbouw PC die ik kocht bij Alternate toen ze nog in Ridderkerk zaten. met een loodzware CRT monitor van iiyama. Gelukkig hebben je nu TFT panels.

[@InfiniteCyclus]

An Amiga 500. And later an Amiga 2000. Played a lot of SWOS, populous and settlers on those machines. Some 30 years ago... 😅

[@daphnelovesL]

PS I love your jacket!

[@playy1797]

If you'd like to play many of those classic games closer to your home you should visit the Nationaal Videogame Museum in Zoetermeer. In the process of moving to a different building but should be opening there in November I'd say.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Or the Home Computer Museum in Helmond. I know all three, but I have a warm heart for the Helmond one, as it is a nice social project too, they do repairs, and it is the one that has the most programs to play around with, the other two have more static setups. The common aspect of all three is that they are on a rather shitty location. Apparantly you need empty office buildings to have an affordable rent to run a place like this.

[@solvejgmode1903]

My first gaming console was an Atari 2600, playing the epic pac man, space invaders and of course the E.T. game.

[@michaeljdrost]

Actually just last week I learned Coleslaw IS Dutch! So is OK, landscape, smuggle and candy. Well, at least according to Philip Dröge in his book "De tawl - Hoe de Nederlandse taal (bijna) Amerika veroverde" ... or so I am told (read a review of the book, not the book itself).

[@evdweide]

My first computer was an Acorn Electron. I taught me Basic and set me up for my current ICT career.

[@daveww]

Me too! When was that, 1983? Still banging on keyboards for a living.😢

[@groenekever]

Come to our vintage computer museum where you can and are allowed to play with all off them. None behind glass home computer museum helmond

[@Perriax]

First gaming console was Super Nintendo with Super Mario World. My brother and me got it from Sinterklaas 😊.

[@H1SCOTTY]

Comandore ‘64 and we played Blue Max and Boulder Dash was really my game. My nephews had an Atari andi thought ours was so much better because it could even print and be used for big banners. When I actually never used the text programs. A few years later friends had a Nintendo with Duck Hunt and that gun as a gameconsole was amazing. When I was a year of fourteen me and my sister worked picking strawberries at an uncle for our first gameboy and the next year we bought a second one with a hacked game with fifty games. With nineteen I’ve got my first personal computer and at twenty two we’ve got internet the year I’ve left school. 😅

[@alexzonneveld34]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 😊

[@pel666]

First 'PC', zx81...it might say something about my age ;)

[@rondeblok]

Try the museum card you can go to most museums for free. The card costs €65 for one year. You even can go to the rijksmuseum for free !!

[@yamuis]

Nice, that computer museum. Never heard of it before. And, btw, my very first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum first with 16k, later extended it to 48k and an additional ZX Drive as storage. You might need to Google it, I guess. (I've still got it.) 🙋‍♂️

[@buncharted]

i wish i still had mine!