[HN Gopher] Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards [video]
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Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards [video]
Author : ArtWomb
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-12-26 23:24 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jamal-kumar wrote:
| This whole thing has "everything is terrible" vibes
|
| Around 1:03 there's leslie nielsen introducing a section where
| they interview a bunch of hackers which is pretty funny
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Too soon. So cringey.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Watched 1 minute of the content, felt the need to comment: hah, I
| thought that was actually Hillary Clinton. Choosing her would be
| odd, she would go on to have a history of blaming video games for
| society's problems. And Leslie Nielsen's comment about "I sure
| hope she has health insurance" is bleakly funny in 2021,
| considering that 2.8 decades later, healthcare is still a fucked
| up thing in the US (here come the defenders...), and back there
| Hillary was working for her husband promoting a healthcare reform
| program:
| https://ballotpedia.org/%22Hillarycare%22_(The_proposed_Heal...
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Here's a contemporary review with the winners (Mortal Kombat took
| home top honors):
| https://ew.com/article/1994/11/25/cybermania-94-ultimate-gam...
| capableweb wrote:
| The categories was a hoot, with some racing game being placed
| in the "Action / Adventure" category and more fun stuff. I
| wonder if we'll look back on today's video game genres and how
| we put some games into some of them in the same way.
|
| For posterity, here was the categories and their winners,
| interesting enough (and maybe because it was related to the
| academy), they had best actress/actor categories (where the
| winner seems to have been a almost softcore "game"):
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| Best Action/ Adventure: Doom;
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| Best CD-ROM: The 7th Guest;
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| Best Portable Game: Aladdin;
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| Best Art or Graphics: Myst;
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| Best Musical: Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World;
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| Best Sports: Caesars World of Boxing;
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| Best Actress: Grace Zabriskie, Voyeur;
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| Best Actor: Robert Culp, Voyeur;
|
| Best Overall Game (determined by a call-in vote): Mortal
| Kombat.
| arminiusreturns wrote:
| The 7th guest was my first "cd-rom game" and to this day I
| remember some of its cool mechanics. Especially the cool
| video technique they used which added to the creepiness.
| Still loving horror games all these years later.
| jandrese wrote:
| In 1994 there were scant few games that even had an actor or
| an actress. I'm guessing Wing Commander III was released too
| late in the year to be in contention?
|
| Most of the games with live action scenes in this era were
| horrible Macromedia Shockwave things with terrible hunt and
| click or puzzle gameplay too, mostly banking on the shock
| value of filling up an entire CD with short tiny Quicktime
| clips superimposed over static backgrounds.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| I think taking this as a reliable source of info is a
| mistake, as it was probably all designed around how much TV
| time they had and worked backwards from there. There's no
| transparency around how finalists were picked. Hopefully,
| anyone really interested in the history of videogame
| classification will take this TV show with a grain of salt
| and weigh it less compared to something like EGM, Game
| Informer or even how the publishers describe it. Although,
| this is free on youtube and it might take some legwork to
| track down the more reliable primary sources, so I dunno...
|
| No matter what the subject, distinguishing the reliability of
| sources is one thing that separates blogspam from real
| research though.
| pmarreck wrote:
| ah, just before the dawn of the Internet. "You will be able to
| vote for your favorite game online, via the Prodigy services
| network"
|
| It's too easy to forget that just before 1995 and using PPP and a
| modem to connect to the formerly-only-academic-and-military
| Internet (and the premiere of web browsers), there was a
| patchwork of self-hosted dialup providers providing a network-
| connected GUI of sorts like AOL and Prodigy
| [deleted]
| jandrese wrote:
| Only $1 an hour for access! Actually I think Prodigy was more
| expensive. AOL made money hand over fist during that brief
| window before Web Browsers became mainstream.
|
| As soon as ISPs starting showing up that were $10 or $15 for an
| entire month of Internet all of those dial up services were
| doomed. They had grown way too fat on per-hour billing and
| couldn't hope to compete.
| arminiusreturns wrote:
| Then you had to have a collection of local isp numbers (and
| for the cracker scene user/pass lists) so you could connect
| while away from home.
|
| I just remembered how happy I was when I had my palm pilot
| 14k attachment and could get internet in class because often
| live POTS were available in many more rooms than these days.
| marban wrote:
| Only watched the first second and fired up NBA Jam TE on the
| Picade immediately. Greatest casual game ever with lots of fond
| memories. SNES > Jaguar > 32X.
| VectorLock wrote:
| Lesley Nielson caught me completely offguard.
| plussed_reader wrote:
| So out of place, yet completely on brand. A true American
| treasure.
| jameshart wrote:
| *Canadian
| juancn wrote:
| Who's the kid? I can't place him.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas. They say it like 10 seconds into the
| show (t2:02 of the video)
| dehrmann wrote:
| He's most known for being the middle child on Home
| Improvement and young Simba in The Lion King.
| smegsicle wrote:
| Teenage heartthrob JTT, you may recognize him from Tiger Beat
| magazine, or perhaps the Tim Allen sitcom "Home Improvement"
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