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  2. Posted

    On 4/28/2021 at 12:41 PM, zzip said:

    I think it was the fact that OLED TVs were on the way, and they have the deep blacks that you used to need a plasma for.   Plus OLED screens are much lighter and use much less power.

    The main thing with plasma TVs was that they would lose about 50% of their brightness during their use.  The cheaper ones had about 30,000 hours of use, and the upper ones about 60,000, before hitting that 50% loss threshold.

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    Ah, the Atari Speakerhat.  Yes, a few of us have the good ol' Blade Runner 2049 edition.  Battery life is about 8 hours regular use on a full charge.  LMK if you are curious about any of the other specs.

     

     

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    Well, if it's super glue, I would get a very thin but strong knife blade, find a corner of the disc to slightly pry up, and then slowly and carefully drip (maybe use an eyedropper) nail polish remover, as this dissolves super glue.  I'd use gravity if possible to assist.  Hopefully it will go very quickly then you can wipe up the remover and clean up any residue from the glue with a gentle swab of Goo Gone.

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    3 hours ago, jhd said:

     

    Am I the only person who cares that "octopuses" is not the correct plural form? 

     

    Octopi was actually a word in my grade one reading book (each chapter of which covered a different animal). 

     

    Back on topic, is there any information that the prize was ever awarded, e.g. a notice in the Imagic "Numb Thumb" newsletter? 

    Not true.

     

    I'm pulling from the Oxford English Dictionary here:

     

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    The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, the word octopus comes from Greek and the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for some Latin plurals, is incorrect.

     

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    3 hours ago, zzip said:

    Wait, we do a poor job of teaching kids actual history, but we have classes in history of videogames??

     

    Although that class sounds cool as heck...

    It's a First-Year Seminar (FYS) class, which means that the instructor presents a specific body of knowledge and then the students study it from an academic/research perspective, although this faculty also teaches with me in our Game & Interactive Media Design major.

     

    I'm actually leading an FYS this semester for the first time in a several years; it's all about zombies (history and representation in media (theater, radio serials, films, comic books, television, and video games), mostly 20th through 21st century, and oriented pre- and post-Romero).

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    9 hours ago, DragonGrafx-16 said:

    Heh I have only like a handful of boxes for console games... but I do have a pretty huge collection of PC games in the box, though more than half of them are in small boxes (mid to late 2000s).

    Boxed PC:  this is all I have (aside from a few that are in my office, and some in my parents' basement).  Part of that is because of being naughty and pirating games, which of course I don't do anymore and haven't done in a long time.  I like finding older PC games when I can, but they don't seem to come up much in stores.  I think people might be more prone to throwing them out.

     

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    4 hours ago, thund3rr said:

    No wonder Atari games are so accessible to the 'tap and swipe' generation, they are easy to pick up and play without understanding complex buttons or gameplay mechanics. Its a great teaching aid and also allows young people to get inspired to create their own rudimentary games.

    Actually, they were astounded at the complexity of Raiders of the Lost Ark.  They couldn't believe a "simple" game had an inventory system, used two controllers, and had multiple areas/maps.  I had to walk them through how to play it.  That's right, kids, you gotta read the manual for some of these dang old Atari tapes!  For some reason, Vanguard appeared to confound them, too.

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  21. Posted

    One of my colleagues has had me guest lecture in her History of Video Games class about Atari and that era of games, but mostly I focused on Atari (with lots of memorabilia), and she had me come back for a second day to let the students actually play some of the games.  She requested certain titles - Adventure, Space Invaders, River Raid, Yars' Revenge, Pitfall II, Ms. Pacman, Donkey Kong, and ET - that the book she's having them read specifically mentions, and I rounded it out with a bunch of other common (Combat, Frogger) and very rare titles (Boing!, Glib), but of all the ones I brought the most popular games were Outlaw, Kool-Aid Man, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Regarding the latter, the students were amazed at the complexity of the game given the time when it was made.  It was interesting to see them sit down and attempt to play a game that they thought would be easy (like Vanguard) and realize there was more going on than they expected and that they actually had to read an instruction manual.  It was really interesting to see them get super competitive over Outlaw.

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