Today's Youth Unimpressed With Commodore 64
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Im sorry, the video is beig a prick and wont play for me. But from what im gathering, he is trying to impress kids with a C64 in the PSWii360 generation?
Maybe he was giving them some kind of historical background, but if not, than yeah... I cant say im shocked at their response.
Its sort of like an old car though: just because you restored it to brand new and its from the 70s, its still a fucking Pinto...
Maybe he was giving them some kind of historical background, but if not, than yeah... I cant say im shocked at their response.
Its sort of like an old car though: just because you restored it to brand new and its from the 70s, its still a fucking Pinto...
Fist game ever was Predator on the C64, closely followed by Lemmings, Rick Dangerous and Captain Planet on the 500+ (Still have it, though lost that huge f*cking modulator for the TV output). Classic, but somewhat irrelevant to school now.
And this surprises people how? In a world with gaming technology as advanced as ours, of course kids don't know or care about the Commodore 64. It's to be expected.
Ah, I didn't realise there were two different inputs. I guess he should have used the better of the two.Formica Archonis said:
I didn't hear them state that they weren't impressed. They merely mentioned that the graphics are bad when compared to the games of today (which they are) and that the controller was a little off-putting at first. They stated that whilst today it's not as impressive to themselves, in the consoles first couple of years it must've been absolutely incredible.
"It's not really amazing from our point of view," one student admitted. She then immediately backtracked to say "Well, it's good, it's good, but ... for then it must have been pretty incredible."
They simply stated the truth, you can't expect them to swoon over it when they weren't even brought up with it. Hell, I'm just out of compulsory education and there are very few 'classic' consoles which I can remember playing with as a child; The Sega Mega Drive, The N64... It's funny to think that my age puts me at the very borderline of modern graphics-centric video gaming and classic games like Planescape: Torment and Dungeon Keeper.
Another way to put it is to think of the ruins of a castle from the late Dark Ages. It's just a big stone wall around a big stone manor. Its defences are tactically retarded. However, when it was first created in the dark ages it must've been a marvellous feat of modern engineering that was albeit impenetrable. It doesn't mean that the castle isn't a work of genius, it just means that there are more recent and quite frankly better feats of engineering today than there were 900 years ago.
"It's not really amazing from our point of view," one student admitted. She then immediately backtracked to say "Well, it's good, it's good, but ... for then it must have been pretty incredible."
They simply stated the truth, you can't expect them to swoon over it when they weren't even brought up with it. Hell, I'm just out of compulsory education and there are very few 'classic' consoles which I can remember playing with as a child; The Sega Mega Drive, The N64... It's funny to think that my age puts me at the very borderline of modern graphics-centric video gaming and classic games like Planescape: Torment and Dungeon Keeper.
Another way to put it is to think of the ruins of a castle from the late Dark Ages. It's just a big stone wall around a big stone manor. Its defences are tactically retarded. However, when it was first created in the dark ages it must've been a marvellous feat of modern engineering that was albeit impenetrable. It doesn't mean that the castle isn't a work of genius, it just means that there are more recent and quite frankly better feats of engineering today than there were 900 years ago.
Not so sure myself.spwatkins said:
"So it's a HUGE MP3 player, with worse quality sound, and only stores about 10 tracks on these massive, easily damaged discs? The pictures on the sleeves are quite nice I admit."
Perhaps if he'd designed his talk around the similarity between indie games and classics of the 80s and 90s instead of hoping kids of today would be impressed by tech of 30 years past.
I'm not certain why they're trying to push the concept of loading a game from tape. Back in the day, everyone had the 1541 floppy drive (5 1/4 floppy disks), and the tape drive was something you only bought (with initial bundle) because you didn't know any better.
Not me, we had a 1541...and a 1581! 3 1/2 inch floppies for the C64 woo hoo. Unfortunately nothing came out on 3 1/2 inch floppies so the 1541 was the real workhorse. I'm actually looking for a replacement 1541 in online auctions because mine has started the death rattle.Vzzdak said:
The SID chip (and massive personal nostalgia) makes the C64 the choice for serious retro gaming for me. Most 8 bit graphics are similar but the SID helps the Commodore's music soar.
Well, obviously...
Just like nobody today would be impressed by a Ford model T, it was revolutionary for the time but compared to what we have today it's (obviously) very outdated
He really expected this generation (or rather, any generation that didn't "grow up"with it) to be impressed, or even slightly interested in the C64 ? Yeah, no...
Just like nobody today would be impressed by a Ford model T, it was revolutionary for the time but compared to what we have today it's (obviously) very outdated
He really expected this generation (or rather, any generation that didn't "grow up"with it) to be impressed, or even slightly interested in the C64 ? Yeah, no...
Man, that takes me back. I was running on that thing at the age of 3. I knew my ABCs by then, so I just asked my dad one day to teach me, and the rest was history. I remember a Donald Duck game where you earned cash to buy playground equipment for Huey, Dewy, and Louie. I also remember a brief kids game with 5 different games. The only one I remember was moving a forklift around to match shapes.
Then there were the real games. There was a Bruce Lee inspired game. Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Jumpman Junior, Spelunker, Wizard, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan 1 on 1, Some Dinosaur egg collecting game (I can't recall it anymore), Blue Max, and a bunch of others. Those were some great times.
Then there were the real games. There was a Bruce Lee inspired game. Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Jumpman Junior, Spelunker, Wizard, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan 1 on 1, Some Dinosaur egg collecting game (I can't recall it anymore), Blue Max, and a bunch of others. Those were some great times.
Well, like that kid said, I can imagine it was the chiz back then. But I'm also unimpressed. But I'm sure it's mostly because I didn't grow up with it.
For example, I'm quite fond of some NES games despite the graphics and music and stuff and you could say the same thing about it.
For example, I'm quite fond of some NES games despite the graphics and music and stuff and you could say the same thing about it.
Especially with the advent of emulators. Playing some of your old favourite games? Sure, that's fine. Pulling out a Commodore 64 to do so? Nope.Twilight_guy said:
Hmmm...to quote TV Tropes, this is "Seinfeld Is Unfunny" at its finest. You don't have to pretend it doesn't happen - it's just a fact of life.
People will always be unimpressed with older technology, even if it was what brought something into the mainstream / popularized a genre that hadn't succeeded previously / was innovative and revolutionary at the time. The best we can do is teach people why those older pieces of technology / works were so important, and how they influenced the medium.
People will always be unimpressed with older technology, even if it was what brought something into the mainstream / popularized a genre that hadn't succeeded previously / was innovative and revolutionary at the time. The best we can do is teach people why those older pieces of technology / works were so important, and how they influenced the medium.