that new chip is just a micro running software, not a dedicated thing that someone sat down and designed at the silicon level JUST for pong, though its probably masked so you cant reprogram it
It was cheap, like 15 bucks, which is why I got it. Autorun did not wok, installer crashed 3 fucking times, had to sign in to steam, installer crashed, uninstall, crash crash, fuck this copy disc to hard drive, uninstall, actually installed and got notice that a update HAD to be installed, thats 400 megs larger than the fucking game on the disc... 4 hour download. So to sum up, 2 hours after I bought the stupid thing I got to wait 4 more hours before I can even play it... and according to the reviews its just a MEH game anyway...
The replacement for one of the two consoles that have stated since day one that these would be at LEAST 10 year consoles, is not going to come out after 7 years of production... in other news...
I have a different view, if the poor can afford internet speeds in the USA that allows them to download a movie that cost a buck something at redbox then maybe they have their priorities wrong.
oh those poor people cant enjoy *insert retardedly popular movie of the month here*, and they cant afford a buck something to rent it for a night? where are they getting that used car payment a month for decent high speed internet?
PS: yes I am classified as poor in the US, I have shitty internet, no cable, and just blew a 3 year old 25$ used tire on the interstate yesterday, redbox is a much better alternative for me than wasting a couple days downloading an inferior copy of something I would watch once and never again. I am against this privatized ISP police, but I could not care less about the helpless poor people, and their nonexistent right to own every shitty movie ever created. They can enjoy them just fine.
did that a decade ago, never made a dent as 3 other people I know buy and rebuy (as in VHS to DVD, DVD to BR) movies every week for the "reward points"
has not been for a while, we have all that we really need, and its been that way for quite a while. Back when VisiCalc came out, was still during the period of "ok you have a personal computer, now what the hell do you do with it" and average people did not have an electonic spredsheet, their software was a game changer spawning an entire industry (for a while), and that was a killer app, for many, they bought an Apple II just to be able to run THAT software.
Today everything is icing on an already made cake *, though I am not saying there is no innovation in the computer software world now, I am saying that the software landscape is not a wide open frontier anymore and, something truly unique AND that everyone just has to have, does not happen.
* icing on an already made cake, for example if I just want to visualize data or forms in a excel sheet, it actually takes me less time to fire up a 16Mhz, 16 bit, 1986 Mac SE and start dumping numbers into excel before ANY modern OS even gets to the desktop. Though I am not going to be able to drop a 1280x1024 24 bit color image as a popup comment in a cell with a few mouse clicks either... good and bad
I work for a small company, one of our 6 EE's has worked 36 days with no days off, comes in at 8 leaves at 9 works at home. spent the last 3 weeks in Detroit getting probed by our customer.
who are truly passionate about it, whats your incentive? average pay? 40 18+ hour days with no days off? spending weeks at a time away from home and family while being anally examined by a customer?
yea you really stiff those game companies by not paying sales tax, here is what I do, I pay sales tax and buy used, that way I can save ~40%, the game companies dont make a profit from me buying a game with a 80% chance of being shit, and I dont screw my local town, who provide me with nice roads and public spaces that I make use of regularly
I have a heat pump, it shits itself and blows ice cold air at 40F, and its been looked at every winter by qualified repairmen sent by my complex... this year I bought a couple 15$ space heaters and my electric bill went down 30$ a month. This is the second place I have lived at with a heat pump and they act the same,... fuck heat pumps!
no number system and pointing and clicking on every pixel of the screen to figure out you need to stick your finger up an owls ass sound like classic RPG play to me, from pen and paper to modern day
oh no, wait that is what ADVENTURE games are... just cause its set in a fantasy setting, and you get involved with it somehow, does not mean its an RPG. I would play Toejam & Earl like it was like smoking crack, but I would not pretend its nothing more than a Easter egg hunt.
ugh, get the PC version, and I personally think you read into it too much, its a traditional 2d RPG with video and the start of the OMFG get on with it overdramatic story lines, not jeebus
"It has been consistently voted as the best game of all time."
we have huge amounts of free land, and very low cost's. boo fucking hoo NCR moved, maybe you should stop blaming other states and take a look at whats wrong with yours
yea, I gave up with those clowns, the office is only a few blocks away and the service is much better... or if it is not, atleast they can see my face when I get the "sorry, but how retarded are you?" look
I played a game once, I called comcast, then got in the car to go to the office, I was able to stand in line with 6 other people, 1 clerk, pay my bill and get a new cable box, drive back home and sit back down infront of my computer before I got off hold...
how is that different from 2d? you cant ignore what the director wants you to see and actually focus in on the distant object in the background, its a basic principal of camera optics
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that new chip is just a micro running software, not a dedicated thing that someone sat down and designed at the silicon level JUST for pong, though its probably masked so you cant reprogram it
It was cheap, like 15 bucks, which is why I got it. Autorun did not wok, installer crashed 3 fucking times, had to sign in to steam, installer crashed, uninstall, crash crash, fuck this copy disc to hard drive, uninstall, actually installed and got notice that a update HAD to be installed, thats 400 megs larger than the fucking game on the disc ... 4 hour download. So to sum up, 2 hours after I bought the stupid thing I got to wait 4 more hours before I can even play it ... and according to the reviews its just a MEH game anyway ...
That right there is how you make a Atari game!
or you could just get a phone with buttons
The replacement for one of the two consoles that have stated since day one that these would be at LEAST 10 year consoles, is not going to come out after 7 years of production ... in other news ...
NO SHIT.
that was mounted and balanced
food and making sure johnny ghetto has a permanent copy of spider-man are hardly the same thing, one you can live without ever consuming.
I have a different view, if the poor can afford internet speeds in the USA that allows them to download a movie that cost a buck something at redbox then maybe they have their priorities wrong.
oh those poor people cant enjoy *insert retardedly popular movie of the month here*, and they cant afford a buck something to rent it for a night? where are they getting that used car payment a month for decent high speed internet?
PS: yes I am classified as poor in the US, I have shitty internet, no cable, and just blew a 3 year old 25$ used tire on the interstate yesterday, redbox is a much better alternative for me than wasting a couple days downloading an inferior copy of something I would watch once and never again. I am against this privatized ISP police, but I could not care less about the helpless poor people, and their nonexistent right to own every shitty movie ever created. They can enjoy them just fine.
did that a decade ago, never made a dent as 3 other people I know buy and rebuy (as in VHS to DVD, DVD to BR) movies every week for the "reward points"
has not been for a while, we have all that we really need, and its been that way for quite a while. Back when VisiCalc came out, was still during the period of "ok you have a personal computer, now what the hell do you do with it" and average people did not have an electonic spredsheet, their software was a game changer spawning an entire industry (for a while), and that was a killer app, for many, they bought an Apple II just to be able to run THAT software.
Today everything is icing on an already made cake *, though I am not saying there is no innovation in the computer software world now, I am saying that the software landscape is not a wide open frontier anymore and, something truly unique AND that everyone just has to have, does not happen.
* icing on an already made cake, for example if I just want to visualize data or forms in a excel sheet, it actually takes me less time to fire up a 16Mhz, 16 bit, 1986 Mac SE and start dumping numbers into excel before ANY modern OS even gets to the desktop. Though I am not going to be able to drop a 1280x1024 24 bit color image as a popup comment in a cell with a few mouse clicks either ... good and bad
your tax dollars at work people, wonder how much grant money that cost us
Last time I checked whenever I sent any data across the net, it was not human, but rather data.
I work for a small company, one of our 6 EE's has worked 36 days with no days off, comes in at 8 leaves at 9 works at home. spent the last 3 weeks in Detroit getting probed by our customer.
who are truly passionate about it, whats your incentive? average pay? 40 18+ hour days with no days off? spending weeks at a time away from home and family while being anally examined by a customer?
who doesn't want a part of that?
yea you really stiff those game companies by not paying sales tax, here is what I do, I pay sales tax and buy used, that way I can save ~40%, the game companies dont make a profit from me buying a game with a 80% chance of being shit, and I dont screw my local town, who provide me with nice roads and public spaces that I make use of regularly
when 4 hour games cost 50 bucks?
I have a heat pump, it shits itself and blows ice cold air at 40F, and its been looked at every winter by qualified repairmen sent by my complex... this year I bought a couple 15$ space heaters and my electric bill went down 30$ a month. This is the second place I have lived at with a heat pump and they act the same, ... fuck heat pumps!
I would love to see the Intellivision COMPUTER
jeez why is this so hard for people to grasp look at the title of the article, whats the first 2 words
Computer Games
no number system and pointing and clicking on every pixel of the screen to figure out you need to stick your finger up an owls ass sound like classic RPG play to me, from pen and paper to modern day
oh no, wait that is what ADVENTURE games are ... just cause its set in a fantasy setting, and you get involved with it somehow, does not mean its an RPG. I would play Toejam & Earl like it was like smoking crack, but I would not pretend its nothing more than a Easter egg hunt.
cause they can run dos box, its more of a bitch to get workbench for a pal machine to operate in emulation
U7 was released in 1992, that is not the 80's but thanks for your pointless input
READ THE FUCKING TITLE if your confused
zork is not an RPG, its an adventure game zippy
ugh, get the PC version, and I personally think you read into it too much, its a traditional 2d RPG with video and the start of the OMFG get on with it overdramatic story lines, not jeebus
"It has been consistently voted as the best game of all time."
not by the lists I read ... see how that works?
we have huge amounts of free land, and very low cost's. boo fucking hoo NCR moved, maybe you should stop blaming other states and take a look at whats wrong with yours
yea, I gave up with those clowns, the office is only a few blocks away and the service is much better ... or if it is not, atleast they can see my face when I get the "sorry, but how retarded are you?" look
I played a game once, I called comcast, then got in the car to go to the office, I was able to stand in line with 6 other people, 1 clerk, pay my bill and get a new cable box, drive back home and sit back down infront of my computer before I got off hold ...
how is that different from 2d? you cant ignore what the director wants you to see and actually focus in on the distant object in the background, its a basic principal of camera optics