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fjl:


--- Quote from: JimmyU on November 24, 2007, 07:55:47 pm ---It really was disjointed.  The last 5 minutes devoted to Tetris really did not make sense since part one was supposed to be the rise of the videogame era.  Tetris wasn't made until 1985 and didn't become big until 1989 when the Gameboy version was released.

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That's not completely true. I recall when tetris first came for the NES in 1987 it also became popular. I was just a kid but all the kids would talk about it in school. I can recall. But your right that it didnt become main stream until the GB version mainly cause it was an awesome game on the go. And thats when the famous Tetris song came to be.

By the way, why isnt' there a decent tetris game on MAME?

Zebidee:


--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 26, 2007, 02:53:35 pm ---Beliefs like that can be self-reinforcing, of course, but senior management at this multi-million dollar company took it as a given.

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Shows you how dumb senior management can be, and proves that dollars do not equal sense. :laugh2:


So, stabbing in the dark here - were the "senior management" at this electronic components company mostly men ??   


HairyDVD:

I thought this episode was a mixed bag.

Thought it was interesting to see how the original pong was created and how they 'squeezed' and couple of sound effect out of it without having to add lots of chips.  The crap that was churned out when atari was sold off and I thought the landfill site full of e.t. cartridges was an urban legend.

maxmix:

I thought it was entertaining.... Not many progs like this here in the UK etc....

maxmix

PS At 40 it brought back loads of memories lol

RandyT:


--- Quote from: maxmix on November 27, 2007, 09:00:08 am ---At 40 it brought back loads of memories lol

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And it is this aspect that made me enjoy this show more than any of the other video game "history" programs.  It gave a real feel for the times, which was a very important element in the progression.  Without understanding what the world was like, it's difficult to understand how much of what happened was possible, or the reasons they happened the way they did.

Having just turned 42, it was an enjoyable look at the past.  And Tetris was big long before the GB version.  It was all over the Cornell and other universities.  Everyone who went to college, worked at a college or knew someone who worked at a college was probably playing it on their XT at the time.  I know I was, in all of it's monochrome simulated CGA glory.   :laugh2:

Is it just the younger folk who didn't care for the show?

RandyT


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