Hogan's Alley

1988, Age 6

I don't remember too much of playing Hogan's Alley, other than using the light gun. But looking at it in retrospect gave me two insights:

1) The game ONLY used "cardboard cutouts" of guys, never "real" people. Could something like that fly today? Imagine the training level in CoD4, only a whole game of it.

2) Reading up on it, its use of the light gun was described as a novelty. But I do not remember it that way. Young Lisa brain interpreted the light gun as a perfectly normal input device. We should remember the difference between a new experience and a novel one, and remember that what is novel to us (say the wiimote) can be viewed as something completely normal to a child that is learning it for the first time.