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Rise of the Video Game - tonight on Discovery
Dmod:
--- Quote from: BUCKETHEAD on November 23, 2007, 11:17:19 am ---I didn't really enjoy this 1st episode at all. :(
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I regret to agree with this.
The military footage and and numerous attempts to connect the video game industry and the cold war were excessive in my opinion.
JimmyU:
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.
MaximRecoil:
--- 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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Yeah, I thought they were skipping ahead a lot too, going from talking about Pac-Man to talking about Tetris. But at the end it said they would be talking about Donkey Kong in the next episode.
The video games/cold war connection was ridiculous. Nolan Bushnell's assertion that in general, females have better fine motor skills than males, was equally ridiculous. That's something that only holds true until puberty.
I also decided that Ralph Baer's version of Pong which allows "English" to be put on the ball looks a lot cooler than Atari's.
Edit by saint - no piracy please.
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 25, 2007, 02:47:09 am ---The video games/cold war connection was ridiculous. Nolan Bushnell's assertion that in general, females have better fine motor skills than males, was equally ridiculous.
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Yes, completely ridiculous. Another example of the latest sexist trend, where men become innocent victims of misdirected enthusiasm in the media to portray women as "better". It would be so much better if everyone was just treated equally.
People used to say that women were better suited to sewing and repetitive factory work because they have better hand coordination skills. The statement was ridiculous then, and it still is now.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: Zebidee on November 25, 2007, 02:24:27 pm ---Yes, completely ridiculous. Another example of the latest sexist trend, where men become innocent victims of misdirected enthusiasm in the media to portray women as "better". It would be so much better if everyone was just treated equally.
People used to say that women were better suited to sewing and repetitive factory work because they have better hand coordination skills. The statement was ridiculous then, and it still is now.
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Yeah. If Nolan had made the claim that in general, men have better fine motor skills than women, you know it would have been left on the cutting room floor.
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