It's 1998, not 1988.

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I don't get it. This video had a premise and lots of pop culture but nothing else.
I blame Tarantino.

>> ^ulysses1904:

I don't get it. This video had a premise and lots of pop culture but nothing else.
I blame Tarantino.


It's FreddieW's critique of the current state of mainstream gaming. The End (you can't do that much in a two minute video).

Yes, I got that. It had a good premise and good potential and high production values but totally weak writing. The joke at the end was feeble, the tech-wise brainiac kid from 1998 wouldn't know about Apple Computer? Like many videos I see these days it skates by on HD and rapid pop-culture dialog and not much else. >> ^Sarzy:

>> ^ulysses1904:
I don't get it. This video had a premise and lots of pop culture but nothing else.
I blame Tarantino.

It's FreddieW's critique of the current state of mainstream gaming. The End (you can't do that much in a two minute video).

Hell a tech brained kid in the 90s might have known about Apple, but they were on their way out of near everything. I can recall using them in middle school, around when I was in maybe 6th or 7th grade and even then they were trying to get rid of them when budgeting allowed.

Amiga was the one everyone used to talk about because video games and graphics were the new things coming along for games. Prior to Doom you had Archon, Oregon Trail, Zork, and other text based stuff....that was early and mid 90s. Think I got my first computer around 95, Doom came out in 93. But when stuff came out back then it didn't spread as quickly as it does now since people owning computers was rare and if they did it was 50/50 if they could do much of anything when it came to games.

Never physically encountered an Amiga, but that was the stuff all the "big studios" were using for their video production and what not if you heard about them at all.

Apples were novel, just because having one meant you had a computer. And computers were pretty rare. Consoles were where it was for actually "good" games for a long time, PCs were ungodly expensive.