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MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: RandyT on November 28, 2007, 02:36:07 pm ---After these statements, I have to ask how old you are. 
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About 9 years younger than you. Your childhood was mainly in the 70's, mine was in the 80's.  


--- Quote ---I *do* remember the "under the desk" drills and evacuations into the school basement.  I do remember seeing the fallout shelter signs everywhere.  I remember quite clearly the threat of nuclear annihilation and movies like "The Day After" as they were being shown on network TV for the first time, as well as others attempting to realistically depict what might happen in a real nuclear exchange (and consequently helped to prevent it, IMHO)
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I started school in 1980 and we never had anything like that. We had fire drills, and that was it. Under-the-desk drills and fallout shelters having any relevance, were relics from the 60's from my perspective.

I saw "The Day After" too (I was 8 when that aired). I also saw Red Dawn and War Games when they came out. I also played Missile Command on my Atari 2600. But that was all just entertainment and I never knew of anyone who was actively worried about a nuclear attack.


--- Quote ---Did I lose any sleep over it?  Not really.  It was more one of those things that just lived in the back of your head and did indeed come out when playing games like Missile Command and games with other "death from the skies" play.

FWIW, I was on a nuclear base in Europe for several years in the 80's, that had short range nuclear stuff pointed at "you-know-who".  Apparently someone thought there was a real threat. :)

RandyT
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And that is the very reason why they were not a significant threat. I suppose a lot more people would have been worried about Russia in the 80's if we were defenseless. But like I said, everyone knew that it would be suicide for them to attack us. Like Reagan said, "Peace through strength".

There is nothing wrong with documentaries about the Cold War, but they overdid it for this documentary which was supposed to be about video games. It came off as a "Well back in my day..." type exaggerated story—walking 5 miles to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways—that sort of thing.

The only major title that had a strong connection to the Cold War was Missile Command.  

Zebidee:

Ah, you were LUCKY .....

Weeeeell, Back in my day you'd count yourself LUCKY to be able to walk to school 5 miles school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.  Why, we'd had to live in a shoebox and clean the road with our TONGUE before supper!

But you tell that to the young'uns today, and they DOOOON'T believe you!

maxmix:

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BTW Enough of this chit chat....  :o When is part 2 aired in the US

So I can get ready to D/L again :)

maxmix

RandyT:


--- Quote from: maxmix on November 28, 2007, 06:10:13 pm ---BTW Enough of this chit chat....  :o When is part 2 aired in the US

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Tonight at 8pm EST.


--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 28, 2007, 03:35:52 pm ---About 9 years younger than you. Your childhood was mainly in the 70's, mine was in the 80's. 

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Ahh, the difference 9 years can make :)  FWIW, an awful lot of the history presented in that first episode took place before 1980, which is most likely why you are having difficulty relating to it. 


--- Quote ---And that is the very reason why they were not a significant threat. I suppose a lot more people would have been worried about Russia in the 80's if we were defenseless. But like I said, everyone knew that it would be suicide for them to attack us. Like Reagan said, "Peace through strength".

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Ok, I have to get this straight, so they were not a significant threat because we found the threat significant enough to deploy thousands of troops to foreign countries ready to fire nuclear weapons at them at a moments notice. I guess that sort of makes sense.


--- Quote ---The only major title that had a strong connection to the Cold War was Missile Command. 

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There were others.  War themes included Commando, Rambo (the movie and the video game), another shooter (can't remember the name) that dropped a dreaded "MIRV" that destroyed the cities you were defending (actual citties from around the word) and plenty of other war related games.  Viet Nam was also mentioned, not just the "cold war".  There were tons of tactical simulations for home computers as well.  Games really didn't start getting "cutesy" until Nintendo.  That episode airs tonight.

RandyT

TOK:


--- Quote from: RandyT on November 28, 2007, 06:29:46 pm ---
There were others.  War themes included Command, Rambo (the movie and the video game), another shooter (can't remember the name) that dropped a dreaded "MIRV" that destroyed the cities you were defending (actual citties from around the word) and plenty of other war related games.  Viet Nam was also mentioned, not just the "cold war".  There were tons of tactical simulations for home computers as well.  Games really didn't start getting "cutesy" until Nintendo.  That episode airs tonight.

RandyT

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Rush n' Attack, which is about as thinly veiled a reference as you can get.  ;)

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