the fast food + music theme makes me flashback to 1992 when the barenaked laides performed mcdonalds girl on the radio. the only recording i can find now is:
http://www.deanfriedman.com/realaudio/McDonaldsGirlbnl.ram
(somewhere in box of several hundred floppy disks in my basement is a .wav of this)

This must have been before the rash of school shootings. Otherwise you'd still be in prison for that game.

>> ^EDD:
Fun fact:
I actually made a game not unlike this back in elementary school - it was in Visual Basic, if I'm not mistaken. It was called "Shoot Oscar". There was only one roughly-drawn 2D (it was the 90s, c'mon) face that was supposedly of my arch-nemesis from the 4th grade (one had to use imagination to associate a specific individual with _that_ face) and with a push of a button you could shoot him in the face with either a pistol, a shotgun or an automatic rifle (1 round, 4 shells and continuous fire respectively). Then, based on after how many bullets one would attempt to exit the game, it would provide a measure of how much one 'hates Oscar':
"Wow, you must love Oscar, you shot him only (1-10) times"
"It seems you don't like Oscar, you shot him (10-100) times"
"You must really hate Oscar, you shot him (100+) times"
The game was a hit among my fellow nerdy classmates, as it generated quite the exchange of floppy disks. Now I guess I should've stayed in business after all.

Fun fact:
I actually made a game not unlike this back in elementary school - it was in Visual Basic, if I'm not mistaken. It was called "Shoot Oscar". There was only one roughly-drawn 2D (it was the 90s, c'mon) face that was supposedly of my arch-nemesis from the 4th grade (one had to use imagination to associate a specific individual with _that_ face) and with a push of a button you could shoot him in the face with either a pistol, a shotgun or an automatic rifle (1 round, 4 shells and continuous fire respectively). Then, based on after how many bullets one would attempt to exit the game, it would provide a measure of how much one 'hates Oscar':

"Wow, you must love Oscar, you shot him only (1-10) times"
"It seems you don't like Oscar, you shot him (10-100) times"
"You must really hate Oscar, you shot him (100+) times"

The game was a hit among my fellow nerdy classmates, as it generated quite the exchange of floppy disks. Now I guess I should've stayed in business after all.

>> ^berticus:
clearly this is a sign of the end times and we should all download the internet now before it is destroyed.


Absolutely. Better start the download immediately. Make sure you have some floppy disks ready in case your disk runs full.

For the record, personal storage media like thumb drives, floppy disks and CD/DVD-ROMS brought from home have been banned on DOD computers for a quite a while. The rule has not been enforced very well, but that is changing.

The most difficult obstacle in this part of the war is changing the culture. 99% of the people using computers in DOD do not understand computer security or view the computer as a weapon system just like a tank or a plane. Systems put in place to protect the network also tend to make things slower and/or less efficient. That means the end user sees computer security as a pain in the ass. Hell, even the tech guys see it as a pain in the ass.

I remember picking up the shareware copy on floppy disk at some store I had never heard of before...Best Buy.

Oh how the times are a'changing.

Playing Doom when it came out was an ongoing OMGWTF moment for me. I think the biggest reason, though, was because I knew nothing about it. The web was young and I didn't have access anyway. I didn't read any gaming magazines. I had literally never heard of Doom or seen a screenshot. One of my classmates brought a few floppy disks in at school one day and handed them to me. I asked what it was and he said, "it's the new Wolfenstein."

Playing the game without any idea of what could happen or what I might see or find brought it to a level that's probably unattainable now. I didn't know what weapons to expect. I didn't know what monsters to expect. I didn't know what the engine was capable of technically, so I had no idea of what sort of traps and secrets and such to expect.

The first time I came face to face with a pinky demon I began yelling, "Holy shit! Holy shit!" out loud. Finding a hidden chainsaw was also quite shocking. I don't think this sort of thing will ever happen again. We know everything about a game long before we ever get to play it now. We know the development decisions, the cut features, the specs and features of the engine.

So yeah, Doom is my #1 OMGWTF videogame, though largely because of the environment it was released in rather than its own doing.

As for the video, I did love the Darth Revan twist and I remember a good deal of gasping the first time we saw Scorpion torch somebody. The COD4 nuke would definitely be on my list if I had played it myself, but I pretty much quit FPS after Quake 3. My friend showed it to me, but I had already heard what happens so it took the awe right out of it.

>> ^Crosswords:
forget vinyl, 3 1/4" is where its at.


I was obligated to downvote this comment for stating the wrong disk measurement.

>> ^jmd:
Unless theres something on the floppy itself hitting the head to make the sound (kind of like a music box), its fake.
Stepper motors in these drives do make a noise similar to this, but #1 you cant alter the frequencies of steps to this degree to create multiple tones, and #2 youll note that while the head moves at the start of the tone, it does not continue to moved through to the end of the tone, especially the long tones. Therefore its not the stepper motor making the sound.


I just love people, who with zero information on something, other than a blurry video, and with some tiny amount of information, make bold statements like 'it's fake'.

Did you know that you can do this entirely in software with the disk drive of the commodore 64? Granted, it's a different assembly (5.25" drive with its own CPU and controller), but same principle. While I can't find anything on how it was done in this case, I think you'll find it's real, and then your 'its fake' call seems pretty dumb.

>> ^thinker247:
After viewing countless hours of disgusting and perverted pornography, this is what really makes me finish.


You sir, are a god among men and an example for us all!

I remember getting my hands on this game on 4 floppy disks, installing it and then losing about a year of my life to it.

Incredible game. Too bad many of the re-works of this classic just fail to muster.

I'm going to check it out. I still think my old amstrad had the most interesting games I've ever played.

Hey, if you're into your 8-bit musical goodness be sure to have a listen to computeher (www.computeher.net). She makes all her music on old games consoles. best of all, her last album "Data Bass" comes wrapped inside a 5 1⁄4 inch floppy disk!