Subj : Re: Cool C=64 program...
To   : paulie420
From : Fissile Syntax
Date : Fri Sep 29 2023 05:21:33

 pa> Yea, I was already thinking that it would make a great C=64 demoscene
 pa> production to CREATE a pseudo-demo that pretends to sell Commodores in
 pa> stores like this software did in 1982... with all that we've learned
 pa> over the years - I think it would be a cool demo.

That would be a good contest: Create an in-store demo for the Commodore 64 that would have appealed to your young self...in BASIC.

I know that in my demo, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST would probably be the theme - blinking red WARNING signs, klaxons, maps, missiles flying - Wargames stuff, basically.  You can remember those nuclear strategies in the movie; my demo would feature NEW JERSEY SCREWJOB in which some kind of airborne decoys launched from Bayonne would attract/pull all incoming missiles down onto Long Island.  

It's gonna be warm in the Hamptons this summer!

Exactly why frying the entire surface of the planet earth was so exciting to me at 11, I do not know.

These days I like kitties, warm blankets, and soft-spoken Quakers.  I have reformed.

At 11 though, it was like: give me some kerosene, some matches, one of those hollow-handle Rambo knives (I would capture wasps in the handle because, I mean, that is what *one does*), a few flea market throwing stars, 50 Pixy Sticks to get ripped on, and a nudie magazine, and I'm good.

I am surprised I survived, but not as surprised as I am that *everyone in my immediate vicinity* survived.

So yeah, Commodore 64 in-store demo: the prospect of causing human extinction in a flamboyant (flame-boyant) and cinematically pleasing way, possibly ending with the "Have You Played Atari Today?" jingle, just because that was my idea of anarchy in the early 1980s: a Commodore 64 playing the Atari theme.  Then open the handle of the Rambo knife and release the infuriated wasps.

I have to say, where it would all fall flat is the 40 column problem.  40 column displays are many things but one thing they are not is menacing.

But they are more menacing than a TI-99/4a would be.

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