The XEGS was my first computer. My parents bought it for me when I was 11. I later got a floppy disk drive and a 300 baud modem. It honestly felt magical to me. Rescue on Fractalus was one of my favorite games. The light gun was not as good as the NES one, but I still had fun with Bug Hunt. I really enjoyed the Infocom text games, though I think the feelies were the best part of those. Later I discovered Ultima IV and played the heck out of that. I had my first experiences in programming with it. I would read the manual for fun and typing in programs from Antic. I eventually started asking my parents for an Atari ST but ended up with a second hand IBM AT.

1988 issue of Antic: https://archive.org/details/1988-06-anticmagazine