Omega-TI Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Here is one of mine to start it off... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDEX21CBlQQ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 BBC4's Micro Men - FULL - (2009) in 720p HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 You could also pick any one of Clint's (Lazy Game Reviews) Hardware reviews from here - they're ALL my favourites! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDCFCDFCF7E7ACDD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Micro Men is the best thing ever committed to film regarding the home computer boom, IMO. You probably have to be British, though, to really really get it. Fantastic film. I've watched it probably five times! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 The video that Sometimes posted above is also very good. It follows the software publishing house Imagine, which was the Titan of the UK home computer software publishing industry. It was supposed to capture how awesome and profitable and cool the software company was. What the film crew *actually* found when they turned up was a company that was bankrupt, and about to be raided by the bailiffs and the locks changed. Well worth watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Micro Men is the best thing ever committed to film regarding the home computer boom, IMO. You probably have to be British, though, to really really get it. Fantastic film. I've watched it probably five times! I have also watched it more times than is deemed normal, I stopped watching it when I started getting anal about some of the discrepancies in the film, such as the level comment about Jet Set Willy-which has no levels, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 http://youtu.be/SmSsXoPxi0M I love THIS 1970 film that was one of the first to run with the superior AI taking over the world themes! WARGAMES owes it a lot I think: StorylineForbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Whoa! That sounds AWESOME! I'm going to watch that! Sounds like someone was trying to post a warning about the over reliance of computers, even back in 1970. Have you seen The Billion Dollar Brain? 1967. Michael Caine. Brilliant. Contains just the right amount of 60's Cold War paranoia, science fiction, and plain bonkers. It too features an all-seeing AI computer that can talk. Bonkers. I mean, why didn't they just switch the effing thing off? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hw8qKVxrIs Well worth it if you can get it for a few dollars. Kick back on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy it in all it's bonkers-ness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 (edited) I have also watched it more times than is deemed normal, I stopped watching it when I started getting anal about some of the discrepancies in the film, such as the level comment about Jet Set Willy-which has no levels, My lad's up to level 8! (Also, early in the program, they show a clip of an Amstrad micro which wasn't to be released for another few years)... Edited May 19, 2014 by UKRetrogamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Stop it you F***ers! You're spoiling it for me! Trivia: tenter the scene at the end where Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry have made up and they meet up again for a drink in the pub where they previously had a fight? Do you know who the barmaid is that says "time please! "? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Have you seen The Billion Dollar Brain? 1967. Michael Caine. Brilliant. Contains just the right amount of 60's Cold War paranoia, science fiction, and plain bonkers. It too features an all-seeing AI computer that can talk. Bonkers. I mean, why didn't they just switch the effing thing off? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hw8qKVxrIs Well worth it if you can get it for a few dollars. Kick back on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy it in all it's bonkers-ness. and I will check THAT one out, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 Stop it you F***ers! You're spoiling it for me! Trivia: tenter the scene at the end where Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry have made up and they meet up again for a drink in the pub where they previously had a fight? Do you know who the barmaid is that says "time please! "? Yes I know who he/she is, rumour has it she is pretty good with vintage computers. P.S-I was inspired to visit the pub "The Baron of Beef"-it looks nothing like the program, really pissed off not to see Clive&Chris in there with Black Sabbath on the Jukebox. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) One of my favorites as the robot snake it creates to defend itself is just so freaking cool and ahead of the times. 1977 Edited May 20, 2014 by RXB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKRetrogamer Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Stop it you F***ers! You're spoiling it for me! Trivia: tenter the scene at the end where Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry have made up and they meet up again for a drink in the pub where they previously had a fight? Do you know who the barmaid is that says "time please! "? SW. No more spoilers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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