Less than 24 hours after you posted the video, there's already over 100 views of this episode. Not too shabby!
This episode might be the tipping point where it all seems to have come together: excellent commentary, cool intro titles, excellent cutaways, and even an "insert" graphic. It seems, dare I say it, "professional."
It seems that your commentaries have gotten even better with the microphone in front of you. Are you more comfortable with that arrangement?
As for Summer Games, it was appealing because it was a subject matter everyone is familiar with and could relate to, as opposed to invading aliens or hopping on mushrooms for power-ups. Yet, most of the mini-games, while hard, were less about reflexes and more about timing, making the game approachable to most non-joystick-jockeys. Yet it was still a videogame, so the joystick jockeys could have fun too. The animation was, for its time, excellent.
I always wanted to play Winter Games, but it wasn't available for the Atari 8-bit. It looked really good!
I did mess with the (I think) Amiga version of "California Games," but it really didn't appeal to me. To me, it was less "California Games" and more "SLACKER Games." To play a swimmer, runner, or pole vaulter was to play a real athlete, but California Games gave you "hacky sack," a pastime for losers who weren't skilled enough to do something cool, like play videogames. Since playing real "hackey sack" was essentially goofing off, it felt redundant to goof off playing a videogame about goofing off.
Great video! And all this talk about the Epyx 500xj joystick makes me want to dig mine out. Actually, I think I have two of them! Great joystick.
Less than 24 hours after you posted the video, there's already over 100 views of this episode. Not too shabby!
This episode might be the tipping point where it all seems to have come together: excellent commentary, cool intro titles, excellent cutaways, and even an "insert" graphic. It seems, dare I say it, "professional."
It seems that your commentaries have gotten even better with the microphone in front of you. Are you more comfortable with that arrangement?
As for Summer Games, it was appealing because it was a subject matter everyone is familiar with and could relate to, as opposed to invading aliens or hopping on mushrooms for power-ups. Yet, most of the mini-games, while hard, were less about reflexes and more about timing, making the game approachable to most non-joystick-jockeys. Yet it was still a videogame, so the joystick jockeys could have fun too. The animation was, for its time, excellent.
I always wanted to play Winter Games, but it wasn't available for the Atari 8-bit. It looked really good!
I did mess with the (I think) Amiga version of "California Games," but it really didn't appeal to me. To me, it was less "California Games" and more "SLACKER Games." To play a swimmer, runner, or pole vaulter was to play a real athlete, but California Games gave you "hacky sack," a pastime for losers who weren't skilled enough to do something cool, like play videogames. Since playing real "hackey sack" was essentially goofing off, it felt redundant to goof off playing a videogame about goofing off.
Great video! And all this talk about the Epyx 500xj joystick makes me want to dig mine out. Actually, I think I have two of them! Great joystick.
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