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cluless journo's talk retro

fogfog
edited November 2013 in Chit chat
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2479087/Over-30-Then-game-Tetris-Pac-Man-Atari-classed-digital-ARCHAEOLOGY.html

magic miner anyone ?


and no prizes for guessing my comment :)

yet another journo who thinks looking up on the web for 3 hours qualifies them on a subject ffs
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  • Paradigm ShifterParadigm Shifter
    edited October 2013
    It's the Daily Heil what do yo expect? Wait till they find out Matthew Smith was a hippy who used to live in a commune...
    Currently released version of SJOE: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=42215
  • fogfog
    edited October 2013
    I expect them to hate everyone equally.... but I do expect em to be factual..

    it's a tricky one with them, coz they spout so much bile... but the rare time they do something good.. yer , I know shocking.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2013
    Wow, where can I get a 'digital' version of Tetris?
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited October 2013
    fog wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2479087/Over-30-Then-game-Tetris-Pac-Man-Atari-classed-digital-ARCHAEOLOGY.html

    magic miner anyone ?


    and no prizes for guessing my comment :)

    yet another journo who thinks looking up on the web for 3 hours qualifies them on a subject ffs
    What make you think he spent as long as 3 hours doing research?

    This is classic Daily Fail fodder, only a moron would read it.
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • fogfog
    edited October 2013
    they normally do far better research though.. that's the point..someone pointed me to it, as obviously they know I like retro gaming..

    I take the mail as "the beano for adults" just solely on the website comments.
  • urbanupstarturbanupstart
    edited October 2013
    It never really bothered me when people called a computer a console on you tube etc, but this article really wound me up when they did it (3 times on skim read).
    Makes me wonder how much other (less substantiated) stuff could be wildly inaccurate.
    Reminds me of the journalist from Ricky Gervais' Extras when he makes crap up and puts words into Andy's mouth:smile:
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited October 2013
    fog wrote: »
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2479087/Over-30-Then-game-Tetris-Pac-Man-Atari-classed-digital-ARCHAEOLOGY.html

    magic miner anyone ?


    and no prizes for guessing my comment :)

    yet another journo who thinks looking up on the web for 3 hours qualifies them on a subject ffs

    lol they mention manic miner earlier in the article too
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  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited October 2013
    Grr! Referring to the Spectrum as a 'console'.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    hmmm... now I know why I installed this plugin...

    http://www.tomroyal.com/teaandkittens/blocked.php
    fog wrote: »
    I take the mail as "the beano for adults" just solely on the website comments.

    You take that back! The Beano is a quality publication!
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • SokurahSokurah
    edited October 2013
    The Magic Miner platform game was created by Atari's rival console, the ZX Spectrum in 1983, while Mac Paint was an early photos and graphics editor available for early Macintosh computers from 1984.

    Magic Miner?

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    My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    and it was created by a ZX Spectrum too! Matthew Smith had absolutely nothing to do with it!

    hmmm, I suppose it could happen if we had infinite Spectrums running the following program:

    10 FOR N=32768 TO 65535
    20 POKE N, INT(RND*255)
    30 NEXT N
    40 RANDOMIZE USR 32768
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited October 2013
    leespoons wrote: »
    and it was created by a ZX Spectrum too! Matthew Smith had absolutely nothing to do with it!

    hmmm, I suppose it could happen if we had infinite Spectrums running the following program:

    10 FOR N=32768 TO 65535
    20 POKE N, INT(RND*255)
    30 NEXT N
    40 RANDOMIZE USR 32768

    Probably not quite that one, as the Spectrum's not-very random number generator would limit the results to 65536 possible programs, and I'm pretty sure Manic Miner wouldn't be amongst them.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited October 2013
    http://toys.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

    I think I'm in the "hated" category well before halfway through the questions...
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    Winston wrote: »
    http://toys.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

    I think I'm in the "hated" category well before halfway through the questions...

    I can't think of anyone who would say "Yes" to Michael Gove, apart from if he asked "Am I a clueless, useless, negligible twattock?"
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • MorkinMorkin
    edited October 2013
    I can't believe there's no mention of the ZX81. Nice little console that. Had some good games too - Sabre Wulf, Paradroid etc.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    Morkin wrote: »
    I can't believe there's no mention of the ZX81. Nice little console that. Had some good games too - Sabre Wulf, Paradroid etc.

    I was a big fan of Shenmue on the Commodore Z80 calculator.
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2013
    leespoons wrote: »
    I was a big fan of Shenmue on the Commodore Z80 calculator.

    Ah yes the Halcion days of playing Streetfighter 3 on my microwave while I waited for my curry to heat up.
    Every night is curry night!
  • chevchev
    edited October 2013
    Winston wrote: »
    http://toys.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

    I think I'm in the "hated" category well before halfway through the questions...

    Took me until question 10/13. I must be more conservative than I thought, although I did once vote Labour in a council election. I'm still not sure what a "talk retro" is though. It is worth noting that Mail Online != the Daily Mail. It's pitched at a different readership and many of the articles, probably including this one, are not printed in the paper. Also, the Mail on Sunday != the Daily Mail. My former employer, the Daily Mail & General Group, produces a lot of newspapers that do not represent the views of Paul Dacre (even if he is executive editor). For example, Metro is very left-leaning.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2013
    "God save the Queen" was the one that tipped me from loathed to hated, so I think I was there in less than 10 questions maybe? :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited October 2013
    It took me until question ten as well, but the fact that I'm a married straight white working non-Muslim with both parents from the UK got me off to a slow start. Once it got onto matters of conscience I sped up the scale pretty quickly though.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    Question 9 for me, as I'm not married. Would've been a lot quicker if they'd asked "Do you live on a council estate?" and "Have you had children out of wedlock?" straight out.
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited October 2013
    Hated in 9 questions here... :-D
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited October 2013
    Not much hope for the unemployed Muslim lesbians...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2013
    Pong is a 2D arcade table tennis game. Paddle's are moved along the sides of the screen to hit a moving 'ball' back and forth. The player who scores the most points wins.

    good of them to clarify that bit, I see the game in a whole different light now.

    Paddle's apostrophe s though? F minus, see me


    p.s. Fog = nugget?
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited October 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    p.s. Fog = nugget?

    I thought it was pretty obvious. :p ;)
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    That confused me, is fog also nuggetreggae (turbo loader maker extraordinaire)?
    The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2015
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited October 2013
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Hated in 9 questions here... :-D

    8 for me!

    Great to see another marvellous Mail article there! :lol:
    The Black Cauldron (PC)
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2013
    GreenCard wrote: »
    I thought it was pretty obvious. :p ;)

    Oh :-). wouldn't make a very good morse/poirot/Jessica fletcher would I...
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited October 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    Jessica fletcher

    Everywhere she goes, someone dies. You'd stop inviting her out after a while, wouldn't you? I reckon she killed people to give herself murders to write about so she could make lots of money in book sales...
  • fogfog
    edited October 2013
    leespoons wrote: »
    That confused me, is fog also nuggetreggae (turbo loader maker extraordinaire)?

    no..

    it was "chicken nugget" IRC I signed up as, nothing to do with the well known WOS one

    due to how some of the posts remind me of a certain advert where the woman in question uses that phrase in a really awful grating voice. (reminded me of some of the comments posted there hehe)

    I am hated by the daily mail.... easy really for anyone whose parents both aren't brits... for all the cack they do print..

    they did tell stephen lawerence's killers to sue them if they were in the wrong

    so it's odd one in that sense, 1 extreme to ther other
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