Imagine if instead of 1% of CPC users, 100% (or even 50%) were active today

[GUNHED]

Recently something got released it this forum, the programmer is over 70. That's just the time people have time and experience. 

[dodogildo]

If you ever read the amazing book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (ignore the lame movie adaptation), you'd appreciate how precious is our little history with 8 bit micros and arcades of our time. It's future-proof. Nothing else matters.

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ

[Prodatron]

If you ever read the amazing book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (ignore the lame movie adaptation), you'd appreciate how precious is our little history with 8 bit micros and arcades of our time. It's future-proof. Nothing else matters.

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ

100% agree (regarding the movie as well!)!

[BSC]

Seems like the topic should be renamed to "Imagine if instead of 0.001% of CPC users, 1% (or even 0.5%) were active today"

[cwpab]

I totally forgot about Ready Player One, so I'm thankful it was mentioned. An interesting IP indeed. However, I don't find it interesting enough to read the book (of course the movie is automatically discarded).

The reason is that what I like about the 80s and 90s is not the nostalgia, but the imagination to create great entertainment products. I like the quality, and I want to believe I don't like this stuff just because I was a kid and then a teenager and young adult.

It feels a bit too much like an advanced, futuristic book version of The Big Bang Theory to me.

[andycadley]

Never thought much of Ready Player One, the book or the film. The book irritated me by getting lots of 80s facts wrong (there's a bit where they go watch Spaced, a 90s comedy, for 80s clues). Also because it does that annoying thing where it's supposed to be a series of hard challenges, but once the first one is solved (which supposedly took years) the others are all beaten in short order.

The film, while also mostly forgettable, does at least embrace the spirit of the 80s whilst largely dumping the weaker points of the plot in favour of cinematic spectacle. I think it's one of the rare cases that I'd rate it over the book.

[Anthony Flack]

I haven't read the book or seen the film, but directed by Spielberg, right? That guy ought to know a thing or two about the 1980s... and video games too (considering he also founded Dreamworks Interactive, created the Medal of Honor series and directed the Wii game Boom Blox)

[cwpab]

I don't doubt the direction is flawless, but I highly suspect the problems of the film are related to the script by Zak Penn, the creator of the scripts for multiple turds including Elektra, Atari: Game Over and Inspector Gadget: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/zak_penn