Live Poll: The Decade That Started It All: Vote for the Greatest 1970s Arcade Game

Bazooka included... I will consider Polaris for the '80s list

Hahahah!!! great anecdotes!! I first had a C-Vic20... I really loved it and learned some Basic with it... I really think that learning programming changes one mind

I remember. Programming in basic was the first I did on the C16. He had routines, even the C64 didn't have. I was able to program simple geometric graphics, which was pretty fascinating for me. I've let count down paramaters and then watch what it did to the geometric forms --- cause and effect! I learned very much, especially with the C64. I had the Final Cardridge III, which enabled to use assembler and build routines, grab music from inside programs and use it for myself, things like that. LDA STA JMP CMP were my most used commands for loop building routines, keyboard requests and so on ... When I had the C16, a schoolfriend had the Commodore VIC 20. I was very envy about. He also had the C116, which I couldn't gather, cause of a big lack of money when I was 12. ;D Programming trains abstract thinking you always deal with cause and effect. If you give the machine the wrong causes, it does the wrong effects. You put in, it puts out or uses it the way you teached it by programming. The worst fails of computers always sit in front of the keyboards, I can tell you. ;)

Absolutely!! You were a brainy!! I could not learn other programming lnguajes until I did Fortran in University... Whenever I have time again, I will try python or another one

I'm not now. My life expired my abilities and I tried to hang on with learning linux, but my abilities still are: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade I didn't develope from there on. Assembler as well as C, CC, Cobol, ... are all not existant in my mind. I ddidn't evolve after joining my job. I had a little stops at UNIX and QNX where I learned a few basic things, but also from there derives nothing. I still could learn, but the flame to do so is extinguished.

P.S.: Yay, Python really is the hottest sh*t. Everyone in business uses it.

Wow!! I used some linux when I started my firs job, but now, everything is under windows and it has no sense... Dont loose that flame! We all can learn new things and be a better version of ourselves!!

Windows is the biggest security lack in the whole world. About 450 billions of malicios codes were written for it. Apple still has over 40 millions of malicious codes to face. Linux faces about 65 malicious codes. 2-4 of them extremely dangerous! Up to total control. They come from a very big country east from Europe. But all-in-all Linux surely is the safest! I don't understand why someone would use windows out of private purpose. All secure areas use free forms of linux for tailoring it perfectly fitting for its purpose withou all the rubbish other operating systems provide. That makes sense in any kind.

We have been under attack of that "big country" in several ocasions, but... 🤷‍♂️ I guess ther is no linux version of the software we use

On my humble opinion it's a matter of lobbyism. The more they make deals with the wrong partners because of - lets say - gentleman favors the least good protection will be. Serious states should be more protective and use better software for being secure. Windows is too overloaded with versatility. Each of the programms they have on board (also the completely useless) potentially opens a gap to the intruders. The more it opens through these programs the higher is the threat of a potential attack. Linux opens 1 port. And each time something should be changed or installed in its System, it asks if it's ok, and wants a password for the change. Windows often does this automatically to provide better functionality without password. It's like: Oh, hi! Come in and feel at home!

Please also move the discussion link to below the question: The 1970s mark the birth of the video game industry, moving gaming from university labs to the living room and the arcade. This poll features the 10 most revolutionary and commercially influential titles that defined genres, advanced technology (like microprocessors and vector graphics), and launched the careers of iconic companies like Atari. Which of these pioneering titles holds up best, and which one truly deserves the title of the 'most groundbreaking' game of the 70s? Discuss

Done... in this one and in the other two lists (for the '80s and '90s)

Thanks, but maybe it should be: Vote and Discuss. or Discuss here after voting.

Done... ✅️

Thanks a lot!!

Bad Ruby, bad Ruby ! ... ;D

Forget my ignorance... What does it mean?

She meant it should have been the featured poll at the top. But something went wrong, the order, I guess.