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Missile Command Documentary
Texasmame:
I love the eBay spelling - "Missle"
:laugh2:
RayB:
--- Quote from: shardian on February 22, 2007, 11:58:29 pm ---I will never understand why people will spend DAYS straight playing a videogame, especially one that just repeats over-and-over. I can play for hours on a game that has a good story line and has engaging gameplay (Kingdom Hearts comes to mind), but what the marathon arcade players do is just ridiculous. It is NOT cool to say you can play for 72 hours on one credit on Missile Command.
Just my 2 cents.
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What is the point of any endurace challenge then? Spending 7 days a week training for an athletic competition... Not cool?
Is it cool to be able to say that for the past 25 years, you hold the world score (and endurance?) record in a famous classic arcade game? How about being the person to finally break it after it stood for so long?
Look at all the attention that old lady QBert player got. Should we have derided her passion and accomplishment because it involved moving a joystick around rather than, say, steering a car around an oval track OVER and OVER and OVER... ?
shardian:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 23, 2007, 02:36:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on February 22, 2007, 11:58:29 pm ---I will never understand why people will spend DAYS straight playing a videogame, especially one that just repeats over-and-over. I can play for hours on a game that has a good story line and has engaging gameplay (Kingdom Hearts comes to mind), but what the marathon arcade players do is just ridiculous. It is NOT cool to say you can play for 72 hours on one credit on Missile Command.
Just my 2 cents.
--- End quote ---
What is the point of any endurace challenge then? Spending 7 days a week training for an athletic competition... Not cool?
Is it cool to be able to say that for the past 25 years, you hold the world score (and endurance?) record in a famous classic arcade game? How about being the person to finally break it after it stood for so long?
Look at all the attention that old lady QBert player got. Should we have derided her passion and accomplishment because it involved moving a joystick around rather than, say, steering a car around an oval track OVER and OVER and OVER... ?
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Touche'.
Still, if I got so good at say, Galaga that I could play for 2 hours straight on a single quarter, I would say to myself "time to move on to another challenge". After I did it once, I wouldn't be able to stomach doing it again other than the occasional fix when I crave it. I guess my non-understanding of this is that I am a Jack of all trades, master of none personality type.
BobA:
RayB Thanks for filling me in on what I missed. I had a feeling that the reset thing did not come out of the blue. I wonder how many arcade boards of that vintage can go without a glitch now after years of corrosion. Any socketed chips or connectors have been attacked for years. How about good old cigarette smoke. Many old games have a good coating of yellow tinge.
Tailgunner:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 22, 2007, 11:27:22 pm ---
Here's the thing, back in the day, these machines were designed to run almost 24/7. I remember some arcades that never turned their machines off. Heat's not really an issue either. Did you know that a 386 PC did not even have a fan on the CPU? That's how much heat was a non-issue as recently as early 90's... I think my 486 was the first PC I owned that required a heat sink. Then the Pentium required a heatsink + small fan.
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I remember burning the everloving ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of my thumb discovering just how hot a 486DX-33 got. A 386 was warm to the touch, the 486 was closer to the eye of a stove. ;)
I'd personally peg the 486DX2-66 as the first processor that needed a fan. I skipped the first generation Pentiums entirely, the DX2 and DX4 chips were faster, considerably less expensive, and since they were a mature design they didn't have the issues early Pentiums did.
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