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Article #697741Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:08
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:08
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:59:13 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote: >On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 10:50:27 -0400, Rin Stowleigh ><rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: > >>There's a youtube vid out there where a guy is comparing gameplay side >>by side on an actual C64 and a PC running an emulator. Even though >>the games play identical while running, he made the observation that >>it's more fun on the C64, because waiting for the game to load, >>hearing the burps and bleeps of the disk drive, etc. creates this >>sense of growing anticipation that makes the entire experience more >>fun once you actually get in the game. > >I believe it! I remember when playing the Infocom games on my C64, >when you had to wait for the drive to load what was needed after you >typed in your command. I got excited waiting for the drive to finish >to see if I did something right and I could move on in the game. There >was definitely anticipation there. A build-up of excitement. Yeah, that was one thing great about older Atari floppy based games. Whenever you entered some command OR did something that caused the light to come on, you knew whatever you just did was probably worthwhile! To some extent true on early hard drives as well, although they got fast enough to outrun that phenomenon pretty quickly.
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