Hi,
Something completely different. Real time Strategy games starting with the Oddessy / know in Europe as the Philips G7000 series game computer which came with a keyboard in 1979!
Interesting to see that things I remember as super hightech which few people understood look like the tools troglodytes used 
āPrehistoricā? Iām gonna pretend you never wrote thatā¦ 
LOL, naaah I am sure the only reason Cavepeople didnāt use their Nokia 3310s because there was no coverage in the cave
3310 is way to modern. It was Nokia 3210 that broke the Sound barrier with its high tech multimedia screen
1.5-inch backlit monochrome graphic LCD display **
84x48 px, 64 ppi** , 5 lines
TV tennis, what a high tech experience 
Came a long way in a WW2 flight simulator game. Flew for the US and won a lot of medals and promotions. Got kicked out of the game when I, in my eager, killed my second P51 Mustang š„² - well - accidents do happend
Thatās not prehistoric. THIS is Prehistorik: Prehistorik 2 on Steam
One of the first games I ever played, on a black and white monitor even.
Then, there is this gem right here:
Cool awesome game input āPrehistorik: 
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As long as you donāt do it with the AVDOC/Stallion 51 Mustangs it is fine with me, at least donāt do it before I visit them 
. My favorite Flight simulator at the time was Aces of the Pacific in which the player can enroll in a wartime career in the US Navy/Marines/Army or the Japanese Navy/Army. You can of feel the frustration of the Cactus Air Force which didnāt have the range to hit the Japanese but got loads of hits. The flight modules were pretty good and it was suicide to attack a bomber 2/tailgun from behind. Should get a remake! It was reasonably easy to get into unlike the free P-51 from DCS nowadays!
Remember TV tennis as well, these invaded lots of homes in the 70s ad early eighties and led to fights about TV usage in households
Here is another one, 13 Kilobytes on the VIC 20. Based on the 1983 movie Wargames which is still relevant. (Where āFerris Buelerā inadvertently starts WW2 
Spoiler below:
The only winning move is NOT TO PLAY, now THAT is a wise lesson methinks! Although I never heard this advice repeated!
I loved the game below!
Computer War - Vic-20 +8k - Real Hardware - YouTube
Shouldnāt have screwed up and/or skipped school, Ferris 
P.S. Donāt you mean āalmost started WW3ā?
I was thinking the same thing. Oh oops, obviously WW3, must be getting old as I am losing count ;-). Anyway, I think in the early days of dialing in PCs this movie was right on the mark
Oh absolutely. Iām guilty of having engaged in phreaking as a kid. 
Saw the film in theaters tooā¦ sigh, good times.
Cool, I only saw in in 2013 in the Prince Charles Cinema in London (they rerun old classics and have lots of singalongs). Back then it really struck me how current this movie was. Now maybe even more as companies get ransomed etc.
I heard that back in the 80s a lot of companies went to "dial backā security as if you dial in to a company it would hang up the phone and call you at a āknown numberā. Note: Pre-internet this was a ādata callā so no audible voice and your telephone line was not usable for voice calls.
Apparently this movie did put a spotlight on security when few people could afford log dial in sessions!
Indeed. Even the Reagan administration knew something had to be done after they saw the film. As for me, 6(going on 7)-year-old me would consider the climax just before the end nightmare fuel.
Did you play Aces over Europe as well? It was insane turning on infinite ammunition and firing rockets from the Me-262.
By now even the 1990s Wing Commander series looks positively prehistoric. Even the parts where they used real actors (hi there Mark Hammill) are super dated.
Dated? Yes.
āPrehistoricā? Heck no. I can only say āKids aināt stupid.ā Donāt be like certain YouTubers who act as if the games they played in their youth were the equivalent of the pre-telegraph days, even as a joke.
More a general statement, really, rather than a reply.
P.S. Iāve played Wing Commander back in 1990. It was great! 
I think that āprehistoricā in this sense is only in the sense of ārelative toā, not a definite statement.
But darnit if I canāt recall the first time I managed to destroy the Kilrathi base in WC2 with my half crippled shipā¦ it felt like such a glorious victory 