Actually I was a Radio Shack TRS-80 boy in Jr. High and Apple IIc at home .... the first portable ... well I went for the newer one rather than an older IIe or the LISA. I remember seeing the first Macintosh but none of my friends used the 3.5 floppy so .... either get a mouse and computer or get the IIc semi-portable and "ahem" borrow games from friends.
First real game I made was the ants program and then moved up to a single Galazian type of thing. Making graphics out of chunks of pixels was a real pain in the ass.
Hehe one more ... I remember swiping my dad's penthouse cuz it had the cheat for pacman in it !!!
err ... pictures were good too!
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...