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09/13/09
Joysticks are for _ussies.
09/13/09
Wussies?
09/14/09
Aussies?
I have heard they enjoy joysticks.
09/14/09
Aussies mate.
09/13/09
The green Computer Space is notable for something other than being one of 4 versions of the first commercial video game.
It's also the first video game to use the iconic joystick instead of a set of buttons(which you can see on the yellow Computer Space cab if you click the auction links), in an attempt to simplify the controls.
Pressing right on the stick would make your spacecraft "rotate right"(clockwise), pressing left would "rotate left"(counterclockwise), pressing up would "thrust" forward, and the little red button on top of the stick would "fire" your gun.
09/12/09
Of course this brings me to the thought the things you could do with a knob other than rotate it.....
09/13/09
Take a second and think about what you asked.
Then pretend you were a caveman and you'd never seen a microwave before. Now cook yourself dinner.
Capice?
09/12/09
09/12/09
This would be what an 8 year old would say.
09/12/09
Don't forget about The Brown Box.
"The Odyssey was designed by Ralph Baer, who began around 1966 and had a working prototype finished by 1968. This prototype, known as the Brown Box"
09/12/09
09/12/09
So they made masturbatory motions with their slide rules.
09/12/09
plus you said Masturbatory....
That sounds like a special room in your house set aside for SPECIAL purposes.
*gets up from computer, announces loudly to room at large*
Excuse me ladies and gentlemen but I afraid I must be retiring to the masturbatory for the rest of this fine evening. Good night all...
09/12/09
Surely if he had civilized company in the original room, they would have maybe prevented him from requiring the masturbatory?
Questions arise!
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09/12/09
Well the yellow one works, albeit a bit blurry, and the green one needs a bit of work, careof the link at the bottom of the article, but still quite impressive for something coming up on 40 years old, and electronic.
09/12/09
These "Classic" gaming devices were astonishingly simple, with a trillionth of the complexity and power available to modern efforts. And, yet, they were still finicky as hell. The only reason those things still run at all is due to obsessive collectors who protect and repair those things with a zeal.
09/12/09
Not really, the phrase "built to last" had meaning in those days, in the past couple of years I've gone through 3 xboxes, my original SNES still runs perfectly.
Aren't you in fact contradicting your own argument? You say modern machines are infinitely more advanced and powerful, and yet they break much more often...I understand what you're saying, insofar as modern machines are much more complex, there's much more that could go wrong. But it's not true to say that classic arcade machines and consoles still run perfectly nowadays just because of overly zealous collectors, they just simply last alot longer.
09/12/09
Meanwhile, in contrast, we now have Hard Drives that get one bit error every fifty trillion bits- and it's still an issue, because we actually have more than fifty trillion bits available to us.
And, your best comparison is a Microsoft product? Those things are broken when they're sent out...
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Oh ye great one! How can we defeat the fanboys of the future?
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