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Tetsu Tenrec: A Retrospective.

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Do you remember what it was like playing your first video game?       I asked around , folks my age usually say something like Duck Hunt, Tecmo Bowl, the original Prince of Persia, Sonic, or Pong. Yeah, I'm sure you get it , I'm old. I'm brittle. I'm bones . Back then, most people didn't use their computers for gaming , it was an arcade and console thing.        Mostly.         Commodore International Corporation and Pilot Light Computing (PLC) were at the front lines of computer gaming , long before the current age of PC gaming dominance. Commodore was known for the Commodore 64 and its main rival, Pilot Light's Vx90. Both being 8-bit home computers and were introduced in 1982.         For me, it wasn't Sonic or Mario that captured my heart. It was Tetsu Tenrec. Back in the 80's , I would mess with my dad's Vx90 and I stumbled across a copy of Tetsu Tenrec. This was my intr...