To me, getting old computers up and running, or programming on them *is* the game as far as I am concerned. More fun than most packaged software games. I have made my own games, and I certainly play computer games, but that's not why I am interested in vintage computing.
I just spent a few hours tonight attempting to network my NeXTstation color computer and get to the post of accessing the vcfed.org forum so I could post a message on there. Just for fun, using ancient dawn of the WWW technology. Feels like a game to me, there is no practical purpose to doing this other than enjoyment. My point is for those of us who pooh pooh vintage gamers not to take themselves too seriously. We're all just playing games if you ask me.
