Infographic: Retro Battlestations

If you look back at photos of what people were wearing in the 1980’s, there is a fair chance that most of us wouldn’t be rushing to try and replicate that fashion look today. The 1980’s was also a time when personal home computers exploded in popularity and gaming took on a new dimension.

We may not be nostalgic about some of the fashion from that time but mention Atari and Commodore 64 and many start to go dewy-eyed. This Retro-Battlestations infographic examines the startling leap in technology between then and now, and looks at some of their features which despite their primitive nature, somehow managed to get many of us hooked on playing space invaders from the comfort of our own couch.

Nostalgia seems to make us very forgiving about the technology we have to work with back then and a good example of our forgiving nature can be seen with the comparison between two Apple computers that were produced 28 years apart.

The difference between an Apple Macintosh from 1984 and an Apple iMac is not just the name change. The 1984 model would have set you back nearly $2,500 in return for a 9” screen and 128K of memory. A 2012 iMac would have cost you much less at just below $1,800, and you would have got 32GB of memory and a 27” screen.

Despite the introduction of specific gaming consoles like the Xbox and Playstation, many of us still have a soft spot for their pixelated predecessors, and over 60% of all gamers continue to spend some of their gaming time on their PC.

Take a walk down memory lane and wonder at the technological disparity between then and now. Very few of us would go near a machine on sale now that boasted a ROM basic operating system and 16 color graphics, but that’s not to say these machines of yesteryear are unloved.

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