Charlie Bookeers Games Changed the word

[dcdrac]

This programme was on UKs Channel 4 last night, mentioned the Speccy, C64 and just about mentioned the BBC B, not an Amstrad in sight, nor an ST nor an Amiga, jumped straight to consoles.

The BEEB only got a mention I suspect because of Elite.

[Gryzor]

Yeah, I was following related timelines on Twitter last night, everyone was going "have they mentioned Amstrad yet?". Sounds pretty naff...

[dcdrac]

skipped over the 16bits as well completely and straight to consoles, the ST and Amiga not one mention

[ralferoo]

skipped over the 16bits as well completely and straight to consoles, the ST and Amiga not one mention

Well, they showed Monkey Island for ages and the box clearly labelled it as the Amiga version...

[andycadley]

I thought it was a pretty interesting show. The CPC didn't get a mention, but that's more because it was about games than computers themselves I think and clearly had to limit the amount of time spent in each era (after all it was 25 games spanning 40 odd years)

Whether you'd enjoy it probably comes down to your opinion of Charlie Brooker's sense of humour, which I tend to find funny but it's not everyone's taste.

[Munchausen]

Was watching with a bunch of friends. It started well and got worse and worse. When they got to number one game that changed the world "twitter" we switched off in protest. I hope their viewing figures crashed at that point, I mean, twitter, WTF?

[andycadley]

Note it was called "Videogames changed the world" and not "THE videogames THAT changed the world" the numbering was a chronological countdown, not a ranking and the games were picked as examples of the changes rather than because they were necessarily outstanding (as should be obvious with the inclusion of Night Trap)

The final point, that social networks like Twitter have effectively become a sort of game, where people play not for points but for popularity in the form of retweets/likes/followers etc is perhaps controversial, but I don't think its entirely wrong either. Not that everyone who uses Twitter cares about that sort of thing (I certainly don't) but then some people never cared about high scores either and there are certainly some people for whom that sort of thing seems increasingly important . It's an interesting observation at least.

[TFM]

Was watching with a bunch of friends. It started well and got worse and worse. When they got to number one game that changed the world "twitter" we switched off in protest. I hope their viewing figures crashed at that point, I mean, twitter, WTF?

What is Twitter? Couldn't even find that on youtube.

[The Last Bandit]

What is Twitter? Couldn't even find that on youtube.

It's a really bad RPG..

[TFM]

It's a really bad RPG..

I'm sure we can do better on CPC 

[dcdrac]

Lets see had an Amiga, ST, BBC B,  CPCs, Spectrums, mac, missed out consoles all together went to PCs/Macs if that programme was to be believed its been consoles only ever since the 1990s

[tastefulmrship]

A rather terrible review of the show - How Video Games Changed the World – A Review and Recap | Overly Critical

(P.S. I cannot trust the words of ANYONE who has never heard of Monkey Island.)

[TotO]

I'm sure we can do better on CPC 

Sure.   

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[redbox]

He missed a trick as he could have shown Twitter being "played" on a ZX Spectrum (or NC200 for that matter).

[EgoTrip]

Well, besides Spindizzy, the Amstrad really didn't produce anything exceptionally original. The show was mostly about the games that did that. Pong, Space Invaders, Mario, Manic Miner, etc.

I was pretty disgusted by them showing that Mortal Kombat fatality though. Even Charlie Brooker was disgusted by it. Something I really did not want to see.

[tastefulmrship]

I was pretty disgusted by them showing that Mortal Kombat fatality though. Even Charlie Brooker was disgusted by it. Something I really did not want to see.

I find it fascinating that people (in general) are disgusted by fantasy-world killing (albeit EXTREMELY mega-uber-violent in MK's example), but are more than happy to experience simulated real-world war games (eg CoD, etc) where people use simulated real-world weapons to kill other people as if they were really killing people in a real-world war environment in real-world locations.

Even the BATTLEFIELD 4 advert looks more like a "join the army/navy/air-force" recruitment campaign than a game commercial.

[arnoldemu]

Well, besides Spindizzy, the Amstrad really didn't produce anything exceptionally original. The show was mostly about the games that did that. Pong, Space Invaders, Mario, Manic Miner, etc.

I was pretty disgusted by them showing that Mortal Kombat fatality though. Even Charlie Brooker was disgusted by it. Something I really did not want to see.

Yes I did want to see that either, plus some of the swearing was unnecessary.

[EgoTrip]

I find it fascinating that people (in general) are disgusted by fantasy-world killing (albeit EXTREMELY mega-uber-violent in MK's example), but are more than happy to experience simulated real-world war games (eg CoD, etc) where people use simulated real-world weapons to kill other people as if they were really killing people in a real-world war environment in real-world locations.

Even the BATTLEFIELD 4 advert looks more like a "join the army/navy/air-force" recruitment campaign than a game commercial.

I don't like those games either. I don't see the point in them personally, gaming for me is escapism, why play a real life type game when you can just join the army to do the real thing? FPS and similar games have never appealed to me. Give me a good adventure or puzzler.

[ralferoo]

Well, besides Spindizzy, the Amstrad really didn't produce anything exceptionally original. The show was mostly about the games that did that. Pong, Space Invaders, Mario, Manic Miner, etc.

All the Freescape games started on the CPC. I guess Elite was the first 3D, but Driller was the first properly nice coloured 3D. Then again, it'd have looked much like Elite on the Spectrum, so you can understand them missing it...

[TFM]

Further look at Vortex and Bollaware titles. What's about Trantor? There is more...

[Trebmint]

It was an okay show. Not really what you expect from Charlie Brooker (who in my mind is a bit of a genius). But it wasn't a show about the best games, more about the evolution of pong to the mass market acceptance we have now. If were truthfully honest the CPC never gave us a genre defining game did it, so I wasnt really expecting to see Roland on the Ropes.


Actually Charlie Brooker did a show called Gameswipe a few years back (look it up on youtube), and this was more retro, funnier and had lots of little in jokes for 8bitters



Think we need to look out for Bedrooms to Billions for the sort of show we wanted this to be though

[AMSDOS]

Wasn't Tetris originally written on an Amstrad? 

[Bryce]

Was it really? I thought the author was Russian? Unlikely that he owned an Amstrad?

Bryce.

[AMSDOS]

Was it really? I thought the author was Russian? Unlikely that he owned an Amstrad?

Bryce.

Interesting it's Text-based:

[ralferoo]

Most of the Russian machines of that vintage were PDP-11 clones from what I understand.