[HN Gopher] YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old Brit...
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YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer
mags
Author : diaphanous
Score : 45 points
Date : 2021-06-25 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| korethr wrote:
| > https://twitter.com/yorecomputer/status/1408482184089026567
|
| Ahh, the contrast between the box art and what's implied by the
| marketing copy, and the actual gameplay screenshots.
|
| ISTR that in the mid-90s, there was this notion that with games
| finally becoming truly 3d on 5th-gen videogame consoles, they'd
| be realistic enough to match the cover art, and that would be the
| end of that eternally recurring disappointment. Well, come 5th-
| and 6th-gen systems, the disappointment of the contrast between
| the cover art and the actual gameplay footage was then replaced
| by the contrast between the FMV and regular gameplay footage.
|
| No real point to that mini-rant, just the image above reminded me
| of its base complaint.
|
| > https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110143735860523009/pho...
|
| I know these are made up titles, crafted with a light streak of
| smart-ass, but I actually want to play some of them, "The Final
| Cut: A Pink Floyd Text Adventure"? "Revenge of Rubic's
| Tetrahedron? I'm also midly curious what the difference in system
| reqs is between "Night Simulator" and "Advanced Night Simulator".
| 0898 wrote:
| The British computer press of the 80s and 90s - magazines from
| the Future stable like Your Sinclair - pioneered a lot of the
| whimsical, zoo-TV style writing that's popular now.
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| It launched Future Publishing (their first magazine was
| "Amstrad Action"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_plc
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| That was the start of my career! My first (freelance) job was
| as the technical editor for Amstrad Action in its closing
| years. A great magazine, even in its dying days.
| 0898 wrote:
| Future launched my career too. I started writing for .net
| in 1998 magazine when I was 15 and joined as a staff writer
| two years later. Fun fact: its editor, Richard Longhurst,
| went onto start Lovehoney.
| nickt wrote:
| I bet you have some stories. ACE was a blast too.
|
| https://archive.org/details/acemagazinefuture
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| The Zoo-TV genre never took off outside Europe, as far as I
| know,
| [deleted]
| Ronson wrote:
| It occurred to me that the BBC Micro (I didn't have one but my
| friend did) was pretty strange? Given the nature of the BBC
| (Licence fee for broadcasting). What was the funding setup?
|
| In a strange way, there would be outrage if BBC Autonomous
| Vehicle or BBC Rocket Launch Services were a thing today. It just
| seems odd.
| twic wrote:
| Looking forward to the day when Rob Manuel has enough twitter
| bots to throw elections. Some (!) of his other ones:
|
| https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110141713979502592?lan...
| diaphanous wrote:
| Thats where I got this. I sense a fellow b3ta subscriber.
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| Ah yes, but _which_ Computer Shopper magazine?
| markus_zhang wrote:
| Really wish it's possible to afford publishing hardcore computer
| magazines in paper nowadays. Looks like most of them are online
| now because of cost.
| ghaff wrote:
| Well, cost relative to potential revenue. How many people are
| going to spend maybe $5/month for a monthly magazine. (And
| that's probably low because the print advertising market is
| almost certainly not there any longer at anything like the
| level it was.)
| markus_zhang wrote:
| I definitely will if one magazine costs less than 10 bucks
| and I can afford bi weekly subscription. However I do
| understand it's just my own opinion and also it's difficult
| for the magazine to shine in the sea of free material on the
| Internet.
| jl6 wrote:
| Amiga Addict launched recently. Not sure it's hardcore as such.
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