Your article in PCN Monitor "Survey Slams Micro User" (issue 73) is sure to raise an uproar. However, I am pleased PCN are setting forth views.
My own opinion is that computer games are really very infantile. Oh yes, the programs and the graphics may be superb, but so what? Why not just do to an amusement arcade or join a games club?
I have two computers, the Amstrad and TRS-80 Colour, and my great desire is for utilities and data programs of all sorts. My computers cost money and I want my money to work for me as I am old, retired and allergic to work. Also, seriously, will all these games really do our children any good? They will learn all the jargon and be computer-literate, but will they be able to write a really decent structured program in Basic...? I wonder...
1st September 1984
