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WCDT strips 4311-4315 (20-25 July 2020)
JoeCovenant:
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--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 21 Jul 2020, 20:10 ---There are copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 on eBay for $1000.
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While I take your point, that's not evidence of anything much unless they're actually selling at that price.
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...oddly, it actually is
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"plus $306 'additional costs'..." !??!?!??!
Perfectly Reasonable:
A new poll topic suddenly appears!
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Jul 2020, 04:09 ---Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over. It was enjoyable.
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Ummh - from what I remember of the time (which is just slightly after the videogame-industry crisis proper - got my C64 in '86, by which time the crisis was pretty much history), a lot of it was Jack Tramiel repeatedly being so far ahead of the curve he ended up out-competing himself (and a lot of other folk to boot). Pushed the C64 at Commodore, coined the nifty 'Home Computer' label for rigs that were basically the common ancestor of both the contemporary PC (Commodore C64/128, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and a few others, iirc) and almost pushed consoles of the market for half a decade - and just when his baby started taking off, he acquired Atari and the 2600 he'd just made forever obsolete?
Similar story with the Amiga/Atari ST competition in the latter half of the decade, I think I recall?
I have to admit I'm a bit peeved at accounts that appear to pretend that kids in the 80s and 90s only used consoles for gaming until the Intel-clone PCs entered peoples' living rooms. Far as I recall it, the 80s were very much the decade of the Home Computer.
BenRG:
Yes, my mother owned one of those 'kit computers', the Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 16kb of memory (thanks to an expansion pack), a keyboard augmentation that made the touch-sensitive keypad go from about 20% to 50% functional and a thermal printer that smelled awful. Still, she could program in BASIC fairly well!
SmilingCat:
Panel three reminds me of buying anime at the local store in the late nineties. The store owners didn't know the difference, so anything anime was all mixed together regardless of... content.
Somewhere, among my circle of friends, there's a VHS tape of a Hentai that one friend picked up with only a cursory glance, thinking it was some sort of vampire anime. It has circulated amongst my friends ever since, nobody really knowing where it ended up.
Some say it will return again one day, to once again create a really awkward viewing experience among the unaware.
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