If you were a kid in the 70s and pic-related was the only thing you could get, would you play it?
yeah
>tennisReal gamers shot artillery guns at each other at that time, zoomie
>>739563602I'm an 80s kid, and we had this all the way to the late-1990s.
>>739563602I was born in 1977.
>>739564445Wtf you're just about old enough to be my dad
What's the earliest game that speedrunning would have been viable for
>>739564586https://youtu.be/uVjqMsjFWAg
The Color-TV port is better, Odyssois are borderline delusional
>>739563602No, the 2600 was the first thing that felt good enough to qualify as something you might play with for a whole after school session. Before that it was thirty minute toys.
>>739564586https://www.speedrun.com/games?page=1&platform&sort=oldest
>>739563602Yes? Absolutely. What kind of retarded question is that?Zoomers may have a hard time grasping this concept, but back then literally seeing a square move on screen and hearing "BLEEP BLOOP" was magical. It was science fiction come to life. There was nothing to compare it to.
>>739564928I have to still filtering the word "zoomer" because of retards with Tourette's like you.
>>739564979Speak fucking English.
>>739563602Back then when kids REALLY get inspired and motivated by these early machines, they went to college to study Electrical and/or Electronics Engineering or whatever early version of Computer Science, or Maths for Computer Graphics and become fucking Engineers and Scientists. Then they start making their own demos, get into graphics programming and sound engineering, creating the demoscene culture, popular among hackers, rippers, crackers etc. Some even took the source codes from the original games and improved it, like the Elite-A. The original Elite was already impressive, and this guys single handedly reverse engineered it, and rolled the tape himself and made his own upgraded version of the game.
>>739565530well, that was more due to microcomputers than to early consoles
this was my first platformer on the Atari 800XL
>>739565707Had to del and repost to to fix ESL grammers. But early consoles are computers. NES was a microcomputer. Same 6502 processor, same architecture as C64 and Apple II. Assembly.People are still making demoscene stuff today, on old consoles and computers. On newer shit, like the Pico-8. I wish I was a turbo nerd and become a tech wizard. Graphics programmer, Tech artist. Or a sound engineer, which has a foundation in EE, stuff like circuitry, logic gates, signal processing, the basis of DAW and synthesizers, analog to digital music making.Like when people think of Computer Graphics nowadays they think of fucking games, and most people immediately think of the Visual Art sides of it, like the right-brain, creative visual artists, using Blender and shit. Modeller, rigger etc. They forgot about the left-brain, reuqiring logic and math berds, who actually made the tools itself, who made the engine, who programmed the shaders, lighting, physics, algorithm etc. These are the true chads.
>>739565772picrel was pretty sweet
