My original plans for New Years Eve was staying home and watching a movie with my fiancée.

Around 6pm a friend called and convinced me to go out to a private New Year’s Party.

It was a very cold evening and my mind was set on hot cocoa and a movie with a nice warm blanket, but I decided to go anyways.

So we arrived to this very nice home, it was a beautiful house and the first thing that I noticed is this very well preserved Apple II computer.

As the “Cool Geek” that I am, I told my friend: “Check This Out”.

He responded like most people would: “Who Cares”.

I forgave his ingnorance not knowing how important part of the computing history this piece was.

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Later on I met the proud owner of this Macintosh, it was Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince Of Persia & Karateka.

2 Great games from the 90′s that I loved as a kid. And the computer that I saw there was the computer that the games were programmed (assembly) on,

and to think I could have stayed home and watched a movie……….WOW!

Important to say that the host of this party was great and the guests were very nice. I’m not posting any pictures from the party to respect the privacy of Jordan Mechner.

As for putting the Apple II pictures; he gave me permission.

I attached text and video instructions.

To start it all you have to do is:

1. Open Terminal

2. type: “emacs” and wait for the emacs screen to load

3. hit “esc” then type “x”

4. type “tetris” (lowercase letters)

5.Enter

A Tetris game will load in the window and you can play it by using the arrow keys & space to control the falling blocks.