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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/17/2014 2:13:33 PM   
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We didn't have any of that X-Box stuff, like these kids have today. We had to walk to the video arcades barefoot in the snow, with a pocketful of quarters to put in the machines.

Ahh...the good ol' days. I'm still looking for a leftover "Stargate" machine if anyone has an idea where to get one.

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/17/2014 4:12:40 PM   
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We didn't have any of that X-Box stuff, like these kids have today. We had to walk to the video arcades barefoot in the snow, with a pocketful of quarters to put in the machines.

Ahh...the good ol' days. I'm still looking for a leftover "Stargate" machine if anyone has an idea where to get one.

Look on ebay but you can probably download an emulator for free off the web if you spend some time googling.

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/17/2014 4:51:42 PM   
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Whatever happened to the good old days of Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Pac Man, Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, and all those other old favorites?

We didn't have any of that X-Box stuff, like these kids have today. We had to walk to the video arcades barefoot in the snow, with a pocketful of quarters to put in the machines.
Don't forget, it was 10 miles in the snow (5 miles each way), when there were still (manually played or manipulated) pinball machines.
When I was growing up, the only electronic stand-alone game units inside arcades were Pac Man and Space Invaders then Ms. Pac Man came out later.
The biggest fad for the very next generation of youngsters was an Atari game system which could actually be hooked up to the TV, with barely visible and maneuverable dots on a glaring black on white screen. (I'm thinking Football cuz that's the only game I ever played with my son back then; these kids nowadays have no idea WTH Atari was either!)
Of course when they became tweens/teens, they turned into the Nintendo Gen.... Then what came next, GameCube? now so passé

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/17/2014 11:09:33 PM   
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"I don't think it would be considered "normal" by any standard, although I've noticed that some gamers have a bit of...intensity...about them. I never really did get much into GTA, although it seems to be hyped more than other games. I've been into Command and Conquer, which has numerous mods available, although I generally prefer turn-based strategy games rather than these real time shoot-em-ups."

I wonder about the - almost obsession some people have with games. Is it a boring life??


"Whatever happened to the good old days of Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Pac Man, Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, and all those other old favorites?"

So would you say that games have become unpleasant violent, or am I putting words in your mouth?

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 5:57:13 AM   
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Zonie:

"I don't think it would be considered "normal" by any standard, although I've noticed that some gamers have a bit of...intensity...about them. I never really did get much into GTA, although it seems to be hyped more than other games. I've been into Command and Conquer, which has numerous mods available, although I generally prefer turn-based strategy games rather than these real time shoot-em-ups."

I wonder about the - almost obsession some people have with games. Is it a boring life??


I don't know if I would use the word "boring" to describe it. Some games might be addictive and hard to put down, especially if they're intense and fast-moving.

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"Whatever happened to the good old days of Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Pac Man, Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, and all those other old favorites?"

So would you say that games have become unpleasant violent, or am I putting words in your mouth?


Technology has made games a lot more graphic, whereas older games were more akin to cartoon violence. Plus, with a lot of the older games, the player had no real other choice other than being "the good guy," but now, you can be "the bad guy" in some games. I think it may be a reflection of the increased glorification of criminality and mobsterism in popular culture. For example, there was another similar game based on the movie The Warriors, although I've never actually played it myself.

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 6:44:49 AM   
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Whatever happened to the good old days of Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, Dragon's Lair, Pac Man, Spy Hunter, Elevator Action, and all those other old favorites?

We didn't have any of that X-Box stuff, like these kids have today. We had to walk to the video arcades barefoot in the snow, with a pocketful of quarters to put in the machines.
Don't forget, it was 10 miles in the snow (5 miles each way), when there were still (manually played or manipulated) pinball machines.


I enjoyed pinball as well and some of the older "primitive" games, like air hockey, skee-ball, and other such games.

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When I was growing up, the only electronic stand-alone game units inside arcades were Pac Man and Space Invaders then Ms. Pac Man came out later.


I also remember Asteroids was a big hit around that time as well, although I think one of the first video games was just the basic "Pong."

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The biggest fad for the very next generation of youngsters was an Atari game system which could actually be hooked up to the TV, with barely visible and maneuverable dots on a glaring black on white screen. (I'm thinking Football cuz that's the only game I ever played with my son back then; these kids nowadays have no idea WTH Atari was either!)
Of course when they became tweens/teens, they turned into the Nintendo Gen.... Then what came next, GameCube? now so passé


We got a variation of Pong that we could hook up to our TV set (late 70s era), although I don't recall if that was Atari or not. I also remember the TRS-80 and a later Atari system, both of which used to load programs with cassette tapes - back in the days before floppy disks or hard drives. But whatever home systems were available still could not compete with the video games at the arcades, not until the late 80s or so. That's when the tide turned and video game parlors started to disappear.

I remember GameBoy, which I think predated GameCube, but I'm not sure of that. I had an earlier Nintendo system that I ended up giving away after a couple of years and decided that I wouldn't bother with GameBoy or any of those other gizmos or home entertainment systems. I used to really enjoy the old Avalon Hill and SPI strategy games, although that involved large game maps, various types of dice rolls and result tables to sift through, and hundreds of little tiles that would take forever to set up. But it would only take a second for any cat to knock down. One time my cat wiped out the entire Confederate Army.

But once I could start playing those games on the computer, those were the games I preferred, as opposed to the intense action shoot-em-up type games. However, I've noticed that most games seem to appeal to that market, as well as constant enhancements to the visual effects.

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 7:14:38 AM   
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I wonder about the - almost obsession some people have with games. Is it a boring life??



Some people are obsessed with video games, and some are even addicted. That said, many of the people concerned about obsessive gamers don't think twice about someone watching TV four hours a day.



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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 8:28:57 AM   
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I also remember Asteroids was a big hit around that time as well, although I think one of the first video games was just the basic "Pong."

Asteroids might actually be the one I had in mind, pre-dating Space Invaders?

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We got a variation of Pong that we could hook up to our TV set (late 70s era), although I don't recall if that was Atari or not....
I remember GameBoy, which I think predated GameCube, but I'm not sure of that. I had an earlier Nintendo system that I ended up giving away after a couple of years and decided that I wouldn't bother with GameBoy or any of those other gizmos or home entertainment systems.
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That must have been Atari, having the monopoly on video games back then, before there was the Inet or any pc games for consumers.

GameBoy was around for a good while and stayed popular with Gen Xers. My older son got into Mario Bros., but not so much Donkey Kong. Handhelds were great for keeping kids occupied during long car rides.... Nintendo DS was all the rage with my (Gen Y) teenager & his friends in elementary school, but he outgrew that several years ago. Their dad and both sons were really keen on playing that puzzle game Tetris, which might still be around.

ETA: hot4b, there have been couch potatoes hooked on TV before there were cable stations & movie channels. I knew some households that kept/keep practically every TV turned on in the house with non-stop noise. (Oddly enough, these are the same kinds of folks who keep lights turned on in every room, occupied or not.)

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 12:07:17 PM   
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I also remember Asteroids was a big hit around that time as well, although I think one of the first video games was just the basic "Pong."

Asteroids might actually be the one I had in mind, pre-dating Space Invaders?


I just checked, and it appears that Space Invaders predated Asteroids. Space Invaders was released in North America on December 31, 1978, and Asteroids came out in November 1979. Pac Man, Missile Command, and Defender came out in 1980 and became pretty popular. The older games got slowly edged out, as well as the pinball machines, which found their way to the back of most arcades.

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We got a variation of Pong that we could hook up to our TV set (late 70s era), although I don't recall if that was Atari or not....
I remember GameBoy, which I think predated GameCube, but I'm not sure of that. I had an earlier Nintendo system that I ended up giving away after a couple of years and decided that I wouldn't bother with GameBoy or any of those other gizmos or home entertainment systems.
<snip>

That must have been Atari, having the monopoly on video games back then, before there was the Inet or any pc games for consumers.

GameBoy was around for a good while and stayed popular with Gen Xers. My older son got into Mario Bros., but not so much Donkey Kong. Handhelds were great for keeping kids occupied during long car rides.... Nintendo DS was all the rage with my (Gen Y) teenager & his friends in elementary school, but he outgrew that several years ago. Their dad and both sons were really keen on playing that puzzle game Tetris, which might still be around.


I got into Mario Brothers, too. I wasn't really much into Donkey Kong, but Donkey Kong Jr. was sort of fun. Mario Brothers came out soon after that, and then Super Mario Brothers at some point. I never really did get into the handhelds, except for this football handheld game I used to have. My niece and nephew were really into the handhelds and gaming systems like PS, various versions Nintendo, X-Box, etc., although strictly speaking, I think their father (my brother) played it more than they did.

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ETA: hot4b, there have been couch potatoes hooked on TV before there were cable stations & movie channels. I knew some households that kept/keep practically every TV turned on in the house with non-stop noise. (Oddly enough, these are the same kinds of folks who keep lights turned on in every room, occupied or not.)


My grandmother was like that with the radio, and I think she resisted getting a TV at first. There were a number great aunts and uncles in my family who never even owned TVs, even though it was the 1970s and 80s. They just figured it was a waste of time and nothing but nonsense - and they were probably right. But I would not have believed it back then. Interestingly enough, I lost interest in TV about the same time my interest in video games grew.

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RE: Hackers playing rape online - 8/18/2014 6:13:44 PM   
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In 1972 Magnavox released the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set. Ralph Baer's initial design had called for a huge row of switches that would allow gamers to turn on and off certain components of the console (the Odyssey lacked a CPU) to create slightly different games like tennis, volleyball, hockey, and chase. Magnavox replaced the switch design with separate cartridges for each game. Although Baer had sketched up ideas for cartridges that could include new components for new games, the carts released by Magnavox all served the same function as the switches and allowed gamers to choose from the Odyssey's built-in games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

Pretty much a dot that bounced back and forth and screen layovers for the games. Oh and being in America it had a gun module you could use to shoot at the tv. Practice makes perfect.

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