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Video Game crash of 1983
Gray_Area:
Jesus.....Cage is so bad....I know when a girl says she likes Nicholas Cage that I need to run the other way.
*To be fair, I think Cage is a decent actor - when he has a good script - and when he isn't trying to sound like Jimmy Stewart.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 02, 2013, 08:52:31 am ---That would be an awesome video game concept.
Indiana Jones + Dig Dug + Greenpeace + Nicolas Cage = Uwe Boll.
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orion:
I was raised by a complete computer geek back in the 70s and 80's. My Dad was the defecto Computer science department at the college where he worked as a college professor. We had an apple II, an Atari 2600 and before that a coleco Telstar arcade. That thing was bad ass!!! At any rate when he wasn't trying to teach me how to program in pascal, he was buying me cool games for the apple II made by this start up company (who's name made him snicker for reasons I didn't understand at the time) called Microsoft. I remember playing castle wolfenstine on the apple II as well as some sort of variant of space wars with these paddle controllers for it. During summer vacation at myrtle beach he would let me run loose at the Pavilion with a pocket full of quarters. I don't remember the 2600 going away. I just remember playing arcade and games on the apple before getting an NES in 85. Did I mention the Telstar arcade??? :D
lcmgadgets:
I'm 48, so I was there too, during the days of those early consoles & home computers. I never noticed the crash. I was an arcade junkie, solely & completely. What I saw in the way of games on the early consoles & computers convinced me that the arcades were in no danger. There were a couple of cute exceptions--I rather liked my dedicated 'Combat'. But they couldn't compare to the dedicated cab's.
Until a friend let me goof around with his Commordore 64. & even then, I wasn't impressed, although, for the 1st time, I worried a little about the future of the arcades. Computers were getting good!
& then, 1 fateful day, that same friend introduced me to Elite on that same Commodore, & I saw what a computer could do for video gaming...I still dream of that old game. I owned & played all the sequels, & looked for clones since--X3 Reunion came pretty close. Now that I hear David Braben has actually set a release year for Elite 4...
The consoles now are great, except for 1 thing. I will always prefer, by far, a stick & some big round buttons, or a track ball the size of a 5 pin bowling ball, or an honest to goodness flight yoke, or a full size steering wheel, or even (for the right game) a full blown keyboard, over that damn hand held thing u have to control with your thumbs. Did Luke fly the X-Wing down the Death Star's trench with something he carried in his hands, & worked with his thumbs?
But man, I sure miss those arcades. I've said for years (& go ahead, laugh at me all you want, but I mean it) that if I were a multi-millionaire, I'd build a Luna City type arcade, & open it to the public, free of charge (it'd b attached to the hard wood floored rollarena also open for free). Of course, I'd have to hire staff just to maintain those machines, cause I'd b too busy playing 'em... :lol
Rigby:
There is an excellent explanation of the crash in question at 54:02, here: http://youtu.be/MBT1OK6VAIU?t=54m2s
The entire video is excellent.