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Rise of the Video Game - tonight on Discovery
Dmod:
--- Quote from: RandyT on November 27, 2007, 04:41:22 pm ---Is it just the younger folk who didn't care for the show?
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I don't think so... I'm turning 39 next month.
I've enjoyed previous history programs which delve more into the competitive nature of the arcade business and the personalities involved rather than the political aspects.
It probably just comes down to what you identify most with. Working in the high tech industry and having lived through both the rise and fall of the tech bubble firsthand, I just find the business and technology war to be a lot more appealing and amusing.
vizzinni:
I agree with RandyT...I'm well into my 40's and watched the show with my two teenaged PS3/PC-gamer boys, and I thought the historical context gave them a bit of perspective on the old man's childhood <video games and the constant threat of MAD (the strategy, not the magazine)>
And Missile Command is far less intense without the Cold war context....
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: RandyT on November 27, 2007, 04:41:22 pm ---
Is it just the younger folk who didn't care for the show?
RandyT
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I grew up in the 80's and thought the whole "cold war connection" with video games in that show was both exaggerated and unnecessary. I rarely gave a second thought to the "cold war" back then. We talked about it in school and whatnot, but I didn't lose any sleep, and I doubt many other people did either. We never had anything going on like we heard about from our teachers and parents back then about having drills in school where you would get under your desk, or people commonly building fallout shelters, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. In fact, we thought it was funny that there was a fallout shelter under the Post Office (or was it the library?). It seemed like such a dated and out-of-place concept in the 80's.
I don't know anyone from "back in the day" that seriously thought Russia would attack with a nuclear strike. We knew it would be suicide for them to do so.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 28, 2007, 03:23:36 am ---I grew up in the 80's and thought the whole "cold war connection" with video games in that show was both exaggerated and unnecessary. I rarely gave a second thought to the "cold war" back then. We talked about it in school and whatnot, but I didn't lose any sleep, and I doubt many other people did either. We never had anything going on like we heard about from our teachers and parents back then about having drills in school where you would get under your desk, or people commonly building fallout shelters, or the Cuban Missile Crisis. In fact, we thought it was funny that there was a fallout shelter under the Post Office (or was it the library?). It seemed like such a dated and out-of-place concept in the 80's.
I don't know anyone from "back in the day" that seriously thought Russia would attack with a nuclear strike. We knew it would be suicide for them to do so.
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After these statements, I have to ask how old you are. 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)
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
maxmix:
Good old War lol
Here are a couple that spring to mind :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
maxmix
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