Atari: Game Over - Special Guest Appearance

[Maniac]

I know it's been around a while but I've only just got round to watching the documentary Atari: Game Over that was funded by Microsoft and available free via the Video bit of the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 or Xbox.

At nearly 10 and half minutes in I had to do a double take as my eyeballs where confronted with this...


Amazing in an American documentary a still showing what I assume are 80s kids playing Paperboy on a 464!

[seanb]

I noticed that too and wondered why it was in there.
Came to the conclusion that its just a stock photo and not because the filmmakers have enough knowledge of anything gaming related outside of North America.

[Shaun M. Neary]

I noticed that too and wondered why it was in there.
Came to the conclusion that its just a stock photo and not because the filmmakers have enough knowledge of anything gaming related outside of North America.

I knew I'd seen this image before. It's a public domain stock image, wikipedia has it on the CPC page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#/media/File:Cpc464.computer.750pix.jpg


It's 750 px wide, so would work as 720p upscaled to 1080p most likely for HD broadcasting...

[Maniac]

I knew I'd seen this image before. It's a public domain stock image, wikipedia has it on the CPC page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#/media/File:Cpc464.computer.750pix.jpg


It's 750 px wide, so would work as 720p upscaled to 1080p most likely for HD broadcasting...

Nice work!

[MacDeath]

This picture is actually used in Wikipedias pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cpc464.computer.750pix.jpg


those pages display this Photo :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_home_computers_by_video_hardware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computer_Museum

funnily the "Living compute Museum from Seattle have a CPC464 and you can play those games on it :
Battleships, Monopoly, Fruit Machine, Oh Mummy, Ghostbusters, Molecule Man, Gauntlet II, Airwolf II, Into Oblivion, RadZone, Classic Adventure, Xanagrams, Cluedo, Sultan's Maze...


Clearly not the best choices IMO (few are good games though) and quite some "American" games (many well known licenses there I guess) .


Also UK really produced a lot of computers in the 80s... wwell, had big brands and quite contributed to let enter computers in european's homes.

[EgoTrip]

Yay Xanagrams, amazing game that.