The Computer Chronicles - Computer Games (1987)

Wow Douglas Adams, what a legend. I LOVE his game Starship Titanic.

I enjoy playing video games on my computers and on my game consoles. 🕹️

That cooling fan on the Apple // in the beginning. It's not just a new craze to add more fans.

gamers rise up

That F1 game was quite the step up from Pole Position. A game I spent countless quarters on back in the 80s. Unfortunately I didn't have a computer capable of running such a sophisticated sim during that era. I had to be satisfied with wire frame sims on Apple 2.

Skate or Die was my favorite game back then. What a simpler time.

Bureaucracy is still as bad as it once was.
Probably worse but I need to believe it somehow works :P.

Paul Schindler is uniquely funny.

Totally stable 3-4 fps in that F1 game.
However there is no DLC, 0 day patch, lootbox etc.

I need that smartcom program. For only 150$ !

How can I get my hands on these fast machines that were presented in this episode?

I just renewed my compuserve subscription. They are unbeatable!

When Robocop for Commodor 64 came out that year and I played it a lot.

Shanghai was a killer hot seat game. If you were watching, not playing, you would think both of them were idiots. Back in the 80s I had many of us 20-28 year olds playing this. If you were not in the Hot Seat, It looked easy. BUT... When you are in the Hot Seat.. Holy Crap what a game! 2 player Ruled!

D.Adams is lousy plagiarist, he've stolen the novel from Robert Sheckley's "Dimension of Miracles".

Could someone go back in time and tell them to fix the refresh rate on the monitor playing Shanghai?

My God. We went from this to gamer girls streaming games on Twitch nearly nude.

Games back then were just better...and computing was fun. Today computers are just boring appliances like a fridge.

Love my Amiga’s. Still use them today 🤙🤙.

I wonder what that NEC neural computer was released as.

Seeing Doug pause frequently while talking and noticing him breathing heavily I wasn't surprised he died of a heart attack at such a young age while looking him up.

Loved Bard’s tale on my Amiga - played it until I fell asleep at the my computer.

I really wish there was a similar series now

F1 game is really impressive for 1987

RIP Douglas and Gary

Am I experiencing a drug induced flashback or is this real?

This dude was born wearing that wig.

2 things have "funded" the progress of technology the most, our pursuit of Video Games and Digital Marketing.

Yeah I remember all computers having Mahjong... what happened to that? It was so relaxing. Now Windows comes with candy crush and Macs come with.... chess? I don't remember playing a game on my Mac...

My god. I have to play that hitchhikers guide game

WTF were they doing at the start when the lights were down, sleeping/hibernating? Woke up as soon as the lights came on

What kind of computer is playing that baseball game? I want it!

edit: Amiga 1000. If I can connect an ethernet card and at least telnet I'm definitely buying one.

To be honest, who doesn't love the reward animation of finishing patience on win 3.1?

Stereo sound effects??? What is this 2090??

lol that f1 game runs with like 5fps XDD

I remember these days fondly....the fundamental shift from videogame consoles to Computer gaming was profound

2019 kids watch this be like "NOOO MY EYES !!!!... ITS BURRRNNNNNNNSSSSSS!!!!"

Great to see Brodie Lockard here, a really inspirational person. What this interview doesn't tell you is that he's paralyzed from the neck down and wrote Shanghai using a special joystick controlled with his mouth. He's now been programming for over 35 years.

"a fascinating text based game about going to the bank to get them to acknowledge a change of address" . odd I never heard of this groundbreaking game

The first guy breaths in timed intervals like a machine is doing it for him, it also seems that he is sitting in some kind of wheelchair (hard to tell)...

Japanese games were light-years ahead of the games in 1987. We had to play catch-up in North America. I'm glad the Japanese consoles showed us the possibilities.

A young Lucy Bradshaw! What a future she’ll have :)