The spice must flow

"You must be older than real-time strategy video games to drink in this establishment."

Okay, read the second link; the genre had some small number of earlier progenitors.  But the sequel to Dune was the first best example of the now-familiar genre of games where players build power plants, weapons manufacturers, and military units in an effort to clear the board of all their enemies, the faster the better.  Command and Conquer was the next step forward I remember, the Warcraft series (and its Starcraft cousin) was titanic among the gamer set, the later high-res version of Dune quite popular as well, and many other franchises such as Star Wars added their own obvious knock-offs.  

Which isn't to say much of it mattered, of course.  But an awful lot of computer-screen hours were wasted in front of these things; probably millions.  Which is all the more impressive when one recalls the target audience was presumably capable of using those computers to find porn.  

... and happy birthday, Ned!