Hi Bryan, Definitely. The classic pong didn't really have sounds. Just the typical beeps and boops of classic vidio game history. Pong and Combat have got to be the most symplistic games ever made, but they were fun at the time they were created. It is only now, 30years later, we can look back and laugh at the primative crap we use to call state-of--the-art technology. I was reading something on the vidio industry and back in the 1970's people were saying Sony's beta tapes would be the vidio cassette standard for many years to come. They said that VHS tapes would fail, they are to big, no body wants a bigger, tape, and that VHS would never replace beta as the home vidio cassette standard. Just a couple of years later VCRs were selling several more units than beta machines, home movies were being released in VHS format, and the rest is history as they say. The thing hear is technology changes so fast that we are hardly aware of what is coming next. Just before dvds came out VCR makers started releasing Super VHS, and the 8 millimeter machines were just starting to gain some ground in the VHS market. Next thing we know dvd players came out, and both Super VHS and 8 millimeter formats never made it to the home movie rental stage, and now that dvd recorders are pretty cheap VHS is all but dead except for those few who won't give up their old technology. This same kind of thing has happened to the vidio game market. it is hard to believe in the late 70's people were playing simple black and white games such as Pong and Combat. In 1982 games like Packman were in 16 colors, had superior graphics, and the game play was better too. By 1985/1986 Nintendo had graduated to its own console and blew Atari away with graphics, color, and game play. It didn't hurt some of the original NES games like Mario, Megaman, Castlevania, Double Dragon, etc has some kick butt music to go with the graphics and improved colors. All and all it is hard to believe how much stuff has changed just over the course of my life time. This stuff is constantly changing, and one day we will be looking back at our 3 GHZ systems laughing about what slow useless crap they are. We will be running a 30 GHZ system with 200 GB of ram , and a 40 terabit drive, laughing about the days when a 3 GHZ system, with 2 GB of ram,and a 300 GB drive, was cool.
Bryan Peterson wrote: > Actually I think I have it for my old Atari. I remember that not only were > the graphis simplistic, not that I could ever see those, but the sound as > well. Beep, boop, beep, that sort of thing. > Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
