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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."
I remember that game, either it or Space Taxi was the first time I had ever heard synthesized speech on a computer. However, I never had the aforementioned problem.
Then again, it's been so long since I played it that I may have just forgotten.
"I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
You could probably replicate the game in a few weeks in Java, but I doubt anyone today would accept the graphics... :-(
Depends. What's the gameplay like? After all, Nethack is still popular, and I guarantee the graphics aren't as good.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.