You may have seen Jack Schofield's post over on the Technology blog, all about a wiki site named Obsoleteskills.com, which is - as the name carefully suggests - compiling a list of abilities that technology has rendered irrelevant. The first five:
1. Dialing a rotary phone. 2. Putting a needle on a vinyl record. 3. Changing tracks on an eight-track tape. 4. Shorthand. 5. Using a slide rule
So, this got me thinking about videogame equivalents. Are there any gaming skills you once had, that you no longer need? Here are mine:
1. Joystick waggling 2. Entering Spectrum pokes 3. Installing PC games using MS-DOS (and often boot discs) 4. Switching auto-fire on and off during a game 5. Making effective use of the PlayStation 2 online 'functionality' 6. Mending broken Dreamcast controller triggers 7. Disc swapping to load import games 8. Attempting to lift an original Xbox without the aid of a fork lift truck
Any more?
