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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back in the day

[kurosawdust]

While we're reminiscing about the Computer Chronicles show, anyone remember the short-lived feature where you could download shareware programs via your TV card and some utility that converted encoded TV signals into data? about 1/4th of the screen would be this static (the "data" that you could grab with your TV card) and the rest of the screen was some guy describing all the shareware that the three people who actually had a TV card, bought that conversion software, were watching the program at that particular moment, and interested enough in the shareware to launch it were downloading. Talk about niche.

I'm not crazy, I swear. This was really a segment on a computer show (I'm not *positive* it was Computer Chronicles, but that sounds right).