I started with a blue budgie called Robbie in 1982. The next year I got a 16K Spectrum, a small rubber keyed firend if ever there was one (actually when I think of it the budgie was probably better company, but). Yep, I remember the first isometric games - Knight Lore, Alien 8, Head over heals. I remember Ram Pack wobble, tape loading problems, having to wait 5 minuest for games to load, these young people don't realise how lucky they are.....
Anyway - after some time I ended up with a +2, with a nackered keyboard, so when you pressed any of b,n,m, symbol shift or space it had a tendency to die. This was a bit of a pain, but I used to manage the odd game of Doomdarks Revenge or Lords of Midnight. This eventually drove me up the wall and around the bend, so I managed to get an Amiga 500.
Of course, then I suffered from custom chip popping and the like, but the games were so much prettier than the specturm ones. Does anyone remember Speedball ? Xenon 2 ? Those were the days. ( Of course not as good as the JSW days and when we used' play Dun Darach and Mars Port ).
When I couldn't compile my programs in ram any more, I shelled out for a whole extra 512K of ram. I also got myself a 1200 bps modem. ("Nothing less that 14.4K will do" - pah!).
Then I ran out of patience compiling from floppy, and bought an A1200 with an 80MB hard drive. That was the beginning of the end, and now after some years of looking at second hand computer ads, and getting people to being things back from America ( land of cheapish electronics ), I've a A4000, with about 500MB of disk space, 2 cd rom drives, 10MB of ram and an emplant jobbie. I'm wondering how long until I shell out for an '060 now.
Anyway - somewhere in the middle of this I went looking for an Amiga version of LaTeX, and found PasTeX on Aminet. It has to be said Aminet is an truely huge and complete selection of Amiga software.
Anyway, here we are from Everyones a Wally and Mainc Miner to Doom and Worms. I dunno how I managed to avoid Microsoft.
More recently I've bought myself a Playstation - mainly to play Oddworld and Riven and Myst. But you can still play all the old classics through the blessing of emulation! There is a Specturm emulator in Java - so anyone with a new browser can enjoy classics. They are even working on an Amiga emulator for Unix, Windows and the like!