[HN Gopher] The original streamer, who ran his own public access...
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The original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in
1993
Author : danso
Score : 116 points
Date : 2021-04-16 13:05 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pcgamer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pcgamer.com)
| wildpeaks wrote:
| In France, Marcus/Level One in 1998 was the cornerstone of gaming
| livestreams:
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| https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_One
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_P1s5uAzWA
| LocalH wrote:
| >The games are projected on a screen behind him, including the
| telltale blur of a camera being pointed at a CRT TV.
|
| That's funny, because the video embedded directly above that
| sentence demonstrates that they in fact used chroma key and
| directly used the console video signal, no cameras pointing at
| CRTs here.
| phire wrote:
| The video at the top is a later episode, from about 1996 (they
| are talking about the N64 being on display in stores)
|
| If you scroll down, there is a another video which chroma keys
| in a camera pointing at a CRT.
| LocalH wrote:
| That's fair, I just thought the proximity of the words to the
| video was mildly humorous
| jfax wrote:
| Quite impressive. Though for me when it comes to veteran video
| game personalities, there's Larry Bundy Jr who I fondly watched
| on an obscure and short-lived satellite TV network early this
| century that was dedicated to video games,[1] and have recently
| discovered still at it and well established on YouTube.[2]
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Network
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| [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJVdNvvuvOnthuWVQjYff2w
| shortlived wrote:
| Super rad! Where is he now?
| em-bee wrote:
| check out his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/jjstyles0001 or
| his youtube channel:
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvC2V9ixUHwJLnCEoOZgItg
| [deleted]
| ttty wrote:
| The original streamer is telling about the first documented
| instance of videogame streaming.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| His setup is pretty good even for 2021 standards.
| em-bee wrote:
| the equipment was provided by public access tv which the cable
| companies were required to offer, so it was a professional
| setup that anyone who wanted to make a show could use after
| some training.
|
| a great opportunity to get experience without needing to find a
| job/internship with a tv studio
| m463 wrote:
| I really never watched game streaming shows (I don't watch sports
| either)
|
| But then I discovered "Let's Game It Out" with Josh and it has
| really made me laugh.
| bpcpdx wrote:
| You might like the spiffing brit also. I discovered him after
| finding lets game it out.
| m463 wrote:
| It looks interesting.
|
| Hmm, except Josh reviews games I would never play, or does
| things that I would never do (100 giraffes in one zoo pen)
|
| The spiffing brit has for example "skyrim infinite money".
| some videos seem to play with the balance of things that
| might hit too close to home. I like to become the
| invulnerable god of a game taking the roundabout way :)
| bitwize wrote:
| Most of the ideas behind the "YouTuber" phenomenon were present
| in _Wayne 's World_, the Saturday Night Live skit/movie series
| about two metalheads shooting a public-access show from their
| basement. Doubtless _Wayne 's World_ inspired this kid, and many
| others like him, to do his own public-access show for real.
|
| It also appears he's using a Video Toaster to do the titling,
| transitions, chroma keying, and artwork. The Video Toaster was
| the first device within consumer/prosumer reach to be able to do
| that kind of graphical effects in real time on analog video.
|
| The early 90s were an exciting time. The seeds of "user
| generated" video content were being planted, and amateur video
| was making the jump from "home movies" to actual productions.
| Keyframe wrote:
| Did you know Dana Carvey, one of two main actors in Wayne's
| World, is a brother of Brad Carvey an engineer of Video
| Toaster? It might be all related somehow.
| ekianjo wrote:
| Television shows are nothing like streaming though..
| fortran77 wrote:
| -nothing- like it? Live and one audience sees the show at the
| same time? Surely it's a little bit like it.
| mrslave wrote:
| The Wayback Machine did capture his URL
| (http://azstarnet.com/~zot) in 1999 which unfortunately was too
| late and is just a file-not-found page. According to the article
| his show - Video Games and More - ran from 1993 to 1997.
|
| How widespread is enjoyment of these old games (Genesis era or
| thereabouts) on emulators or hardware? My gaming is limited to
| about 15 minutes per month which means anything short - usually
| indie or retro.
| jowsie wrote:
| Huge. A look through RetroRGB.com or Speedrun.com's most played
| games list will give a glimpse into the modern retro gaming
| community.
| gota wrote:
| Strategy games from that era are surprisingly neat, too.
|
| I figured that particular genre matured game design
| "techniques" for itself a bit faster than others (maybe
| except for platformers) because of the inherent hard problem
| of devising adequate user interfaces for (relatively) more
| complex systems.
|
| I mean, Civ II holds up really well and its from the mid 90s!
| adreamingsoul wrote:
| I don't remember the year, but I was young. A local (to me)
| hacking group had a short format live show on public TV.
|
| The show was basically answering questions while several people
| played a lan game of counter-strike. I was invited once to
| participate as a player. Surprisingly, a lot of people called the
| show to ask how they could obtain access to their SO's email
| account.
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| That experience and the interactions before/after provided me a
| glimpse of a part of society that had a lasting impact.
|
| In hindsight, I was too young to be around whatever that was.
| bitwize wrote:
| > A local (to me) hacking group had a short format live show on
| public TV.
|
| First thing I thought was HACK THE PLANET!!!
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