{"id":10,"date":"2006-10-20T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T08:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lightrock.biz\/index.php\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:27:21","slug":"nu-pogodi-or-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightrocker.lightrock.biz\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"“Nu, pogodi!” or: First contact."},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventeen and a half years ago Germany was divided in two parts. West Germany had democracy and a social market economy. But I lived in East Germany, which was ruled by a kind of dictatorship (even though the official name was “German Democratic Republic<\/a>“) with a centrally planned economy. The computer technology in our country was at least a decade out of date and a home computer cost triple the monthly income of one of my parents. So I had no chance to get my finger on one.<\/p>\n

On my birthday in 1989 a Russian tele game had been given to me. A friend of my farther, who was working in the former Soviet Union, brought it along. The handheld was only able to let me play one game but at that time I was very happy. In the game you had to catch the rolling eggs from four sides. When a egg pitched onto the ground you lost a life. The game characters based on a famous Russian animation series called “Nu, pogodi!<\/a>“, which was also known in East Germany. That was my first contact with electronic games.
\nIn the November of the same year the “Berlin Wall<\/a>” had fallen and the inner German border<\/a> was opened. A half year later the GDR still was existing but a lot had already changed. Nonetheless I met the Hare and the Wolf again being on holiday. There was a arcade gaming machine called “Poly Play<\/a>” with different games. The funniest of all was a “Pac-Man<\/a>” clone starring the characters from “Nu, pogodi!”.<\/p>\n

In the summer I was attending a computer club, where I got in contact with the “Robotron KC 87<\/a>“. There I programmed my first game. You only had to hit a key on right time to shoot a rocket, which had to strike a car driving from the top to the bottom of the screen again and again.
\nWith the “German Reunification<\/a>” on October 3rd, 1990 my parants were able to bestow me my first own computer at the following Christmas: A “Commodore 64<\/a>“. At that time I was eleven years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seventeen and a half years ago Germany was divided in two parts. West Germany had democracy and a social market economy. But I lived in East Germany, which was ruled by a kind of dictatorship (even though the official name was “German Democratic Republic“) with a centrally planned economy. The computer technology in our country … <\/p>\n

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