The 8-Bit computer, which launched in 1982 (the same year TRON hit theaters), may have been great for BASIC programming, but I used it mostly for playing games like Summer Olympics, Ghostbusters, Castle Wolfenstein, and Pitstop II.

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For him, I was his childhood dream girl: I'm tall, have curly brown hair and I play cello, so I was the real-life version of Sigourney Weaver's character in "Ghostbusters" (his favorite movie).

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Well, let me rephrase that: I wanted to be a princess who could wear pants, wrestle her enemies and hang with the Ghostbusters on the weekend.

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