ElectricDreamz
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Probably not a good idea to steal that design just yet.. might still be intellectual property
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Probably not a good idea to steal that design just yet.. might still be intellectual property
Probably not a good idea to steal that design just yet.. might still be intellectual property
A show taking liberties with a high score table to add more nostalgia by prefixing the character's name with Mad is a travesty, yet collectors install a Frogger kit that allows for entering initials into a game that never had such a thing in the first place.
Good point.
But one is true to form, and one is not.
(assuming the frogger kit limits to 3 initials like BITD)
Neither bother me, quite honestly, I enjoy the show and I enjoy playing old video games as well as marveling at the intelligence of the community to create these great possibilities of enhancing a classic game.
I just can't exactly comprehend why the general view seems to be that it's fine for game owners to put collector designed side art, add on kits to games that never had a high score table before, illuminated t-molding, etc but liberties on a tv show are damning.
I wonder if it's because the decision was made for them in that case and they consume the result they had no input into whereas in a home collection, it's your game, you do what the hell you want.
As was mentioned a massive bulk of the viewership will just say "Hey Dig Dug! I remember that!"
Neither bother me, quite honestly, I enjoy the show and I enjoy playing old video games as well as marveling at the intelligence of the community to create these great possibilities of enhancing a classic game.
I just can't exactly comprehend why the general view seems to be that it's fine for game owners to put collector designed side art, add on kits to games that never had a high score table before, illuminated t-molding, etc but liberties on a tv show are damning.
I wonder if it's because the decision was made for them in that case and they consume the result they had no input into whereas in a home collection, it's your game, you do what the hell you want.
As was mentioned a massive bulk of the viewership will just say "Hey Dig Dug! I remember that!"
A show taking liberties with a high score table to add more nostalgia by prefixing the character's name with Mad is a travesty, yet collectors install a Frogger kit that allows for entering initials into a game that never had such a thing in the first place.
Uh... Like... comp in screens on top of CRTs? You realize what a huge waste of money that is, right? I do this stuff for a living and even I'm like... just use LCDs because 99% of the world won't even notice.
There's so much that has to go into preparing the scene for fake CRT screens... dealing with camera tracks, reflections, etc... all a huge pain in the ass that's totally avoided by just having LCD screens instead.
People who didn't go up in the 1980s wouldn't notice. But if you're doing this as a nod to those who did and remember what it was like, it's a 'fail' because it immediately reminds you that you're not looking at a scene set in the 1980s. Besides, it's not like the whole series takes place in an arcade. We're talking 20 minutes(?) out of one show. The creators go through all the trouble to recreate that time period, and then do something like use games with LCDs or bikes that were made decades later. It's distracting, and once you notice it, there's no forgetting it.
People who didn't go up in the 1980s wouldn't notice. But if you're doing this as a nod to those who did and remember what it was like, it's a 'fail' because it immediately reminds you that you're not looking at a scene set in the 1980s. Besides, it's not like the whole series takes place in an arcade. We're talking 20 minutes(?) out of one show. The creators go through all the trouble to recreate that time period, and then do something like use games with LCDs or bikes that were made decades later. It's distracting, and once you notice it, there's no forgetting it.
look. it's easy. they used LCD's cuz you can't film crt's.
look. it's easy. they used LCD's cuz you can't film crt's.
And yet they had numerous scenes with TV sets. They can film crts if they wanted to, the production just decided to be cheap and did it half assed.
i guess u have a valid point. they did film a shitton of crt/tv's throughout the series.
my final guess is some idiotdonatedleased/rented their cabinets/games to the show, and whomever owns
those games was a cheapass and used lcd's, which sucks, and you should burn all your cabs
and go out of business. kthx.
Nope, person who supplied them is a legit collector/company, that I believe is active here and on the arcade Facebook groups. The machines had CRTs, the show removed them and put in LCDs purposely. Tim