Hot Video Games For Xmas 1976

[Fort Apocalypse]

George Finstad and Joan Watson from CBC-TV's Marketplace to help you select the best video game unit for the 1976 holiday season:

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/10/cbc-tv-hot-vide.html

[+Random Terrain]

I guess you need a special browser to see it. I allowed all scripts on the following page, but I still only see a black box:

 

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/clips/15868/

[Artlover]

Link works for me.

[+Random Terrain]

Link works for me.

I'm using Firefox. What browser are you using?

[Artlover]

I liked when the guy was mentioning interference with other tv's. How there is no FCC type of approval in Canada, but it shouldn't be a problem because it uses the same kind of electronics as electronic watches and calculators.

 

Link works for me.

I'm using Firefox. What browser are you using?

Firefox 2.0.0.6.

Edited October 22, 2008 by Artlover

[+Random Terrain]

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

[fiddlepaddle]

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3 (with Ubuntu) with shockwave flash enabled...doesn't work for me either.

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

Link works for me.

I'm using Firefox. What browser are you using?

 

Watching right now in Firefox, you have a settings or plugin issue..............

[Atarifever]

Oh Marketplace, don't ever change.

 

 

By the way look at this one about the adult games for the 2600:

 

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/clips/15875/

[Rom Hunter]

Nice!

 

Watch this one too:

http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/topics/3607/

 

Bunch of undead asking questions to two teenage game programmers about the upcoming home computer game programming business.

 

Talk about a generation gap.

 

Evolution is a great game, btw.

 

Played it a lot back then.

 

[NE146]

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

 

Try another browser.. don't you have like 2 to 4 different browsers available?

 

Or heck, here's a direct link to the vid: http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new/200...es_19761112.wmv

Edited October 22, 2008 by NE146

[darthkur]

George Finstad and Joan Watson from CBC-TV's Marketplace to help you select the best video game unit for the 1976 holiday season:

http://www.retrothing.com/2008/10/cbc-tv-hot-vide.html

 

 

It's odd that there was no mention of the Fairchild Channel F, since it was available three months previous to the broadcast date. Strangely enough, as primitive as the Channel F is, it would have made all of the Pong units, even the upper line Ricochet which they all seemed to favor, seem utterly obsolete.

[+Random Terrain]

I'm using Firefox 3.0.3. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Try another browser.. don't you have like 2 to 4 different browsers available?

 

Or heck, here's a direct link to the vid: http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new/200...es_19761112.wmv

Thanks, but that video doesn't seem to work. It does work if I put it directly into WMP:

 

http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new//20...es_19761112.wmv

 

Weird. It would be nice to figure out why that site doesn't work for me instead of switching to another browser.

Edited October 22, 2008 by Random Terrain

[+Allan]

Link works for me.

I'm using Firefox. What browser are you using?

You need to click on the video.

 

Allan

[+Random Terrain]

Fixed it! I had to do what it says here:

 

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+...in_is_installed

 

And then I had to enable the plugin. It wasn't enabled by default.

 

Video plays fine now.

Edited October 22, 2008 by Random Terrain

[Artlover]

It's odd that there was no mention of the Fairchild Channel F, since it was available three months previous to the broadcast date. Strangely enough, as primitive as the Channel F is, it would have made all of the Pong units, even the upper line Ricochet which they all seemed to favor, seem utterly obsolete.

Was it available in Canada when the segment was produced?

 

 

Fixed it! Video plays fine now.

On that note....

 

WM Recorder is the best windows application ever written.

[Atari2008]

It's odd that there was no mention of the Fairchild Channel F, since it was available three months previous to the broadcast date. Strangely enough, as primitive as the Channel F is, it would have made all of the Pong units, even the upper line Ricochet which they all seemed to favor, seem utterly obsolete.

Was it available in Canada when the segment was produced?

 

At first I wondered the same thing about the Channel F; that would be my guess as well that it wasn't available in Canada at the time. Would've been interesting to have seen a review of it, if it was. Maybe there are some elsewhere on the site and I just need to look around.

[Great Hierophant]

Did anyone else notice that no TV featured in the program has a 4:3 aspect ratio? I had no idea widescreen tubes existed back in the day!

[Artlover]

Did anyone else notice that no TV featured in the program has a 4:3 aspect ratio?

:?

[shadow460]

Video's not working here, either. All plugins are installed and enabled. I got it to go once when I opened something on top of the page, but now the controls are all grayed out.

[dangeraaron]

man...wish i was around to see how it was like back then video game wise, as well as the birth of the Atari..=(