Computer Chronicles Episodes Highlight Classic Games

Thanks to Waxy.org for its weblog entry highlighting some of the classic gaming-related episodes of the Computer Chronicles TV show, all freely downloadable courtesy of the Internet Archive. Waxy.org particularly highlights the Computer Games episode from January 1985, where "The authors of Sargon and Millionaire demo them on the original Mac, and talks to Pitfall creator David Crane about Ghostbusters and David Lebling discusses Zork and other text-based adventure games. The short piece on the fledgling Lucasarts (then named Lucasfilm) is great, which had just released its first two games a few months before, the groundbreaking Rescue on Fractalus and Ballblazer" Also noted is a Software Piracy episode from 1985 including "a spirited debate between an Activision exec against a developer of a cracking utility", and another gaming episode from 1984 including "Electronic Arts' Bill Budge showing off the classic Pinball Construction Set."

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Re:He Slimed Me!

[paulcammish]

Synthesized Speech! Ha! That was sampled!

Now, the Currah MicroSpeech cart/plugin/'big black thing' for the Sinclair Spectrum... now THAT was Synth Speech.

I can still hear it to this day...
"The ban-shee way-uls at yoo und no-thing happ-uns."

Oh, and the hours upons hours of fun typing:
LET S$="Would you like to play a nice game of thermonuclear war"

Those were the days...