Space Battles and other exotic things from the past

[Geraldine]

For sure Gernot, there was a lot of dodgy dealings going on back then between game devs and publishers. Of course this ended somewhat in the great video game crash of the early 80s in America. Many Atari games for example ended up going to landfill sites.
Of course things were not so bad in Europe, especially in the UK & Germany. It seemed like it was us who kept the video games industry going through this difficult period. I recall well from back then a great many, now vanished, machines in the shops and games to go with them. But then that's another story.

[Gernot66]

another thing you will certainly remember is this demo, decle converted it for the intellivision, a whoppy 450kb of program, so nothing which would have ever been released.

[Geraldine]

That's an amazing achievement Gernot! It just goes to show what the Intellivision could have done had it advanced a bit. This might not be the most stunning looking demo I've ever seen, well....actually it still is, but, far more importantly, for the sheer technical prowess of getting it to run at all with so little resources leaves me speechless!

[Gernot66]

hyperspace jump to another decade.

thanks geraldine for the link, i didn't heard of this burial before, how many copies of E.T.?
i must say i never played that game and as more bad critics i read about as more i wonder if it really was this bad.

all the movie franchises doesn't worked so well those days i guess, tron (all of them) was neither a success, ok the movie itself wasn't successful.
but i liked it, i guess i have seen tron once but i haven't forgot the story, i was fascinated and can't understand why it was rated so bad.
while e.t. as movie was a commercial success and i found the movie lame, i couldn't see it back then as sci-fi for real,
to me it was a sentimental story, but maybe that was the success of it.

intentionally i liked to post a clip of "wendetta".
but i watched a movie today i like to share with you, most probably you know the movie and will have seen it more then once (?)
i was very impressed of it and my first thought was of geraldine when i watched "The First of the Few".
it's really a fine movie and to know it was made in ww2 makes it even better if i imagine the conditions under which it has been made.
david niven plays his role brillant as always with a lot of humor (which was certainly strongly needed)

so this is totally off topic, it's rather a historical movie and has nothing to do with space neither with computers (but with aviatics).
of course one has to watch the movie in the context, it's entertainment and propaganda and a lot of story and prob. less history.
but if one likes airplanes one will like it - no, one must like it.

so here's the link, even if i assume you will know this movie since childhood.
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next post will be an console space shooter again, i promise, right here it is
it's a quite new game under development for the intellivision and for my choice something of the best ever made for it.
not really new but neither really old.
the controls suit perfect to the disc controller of this console.
the dudes work hard to squeeze the last bit out of this old console.

[Geraldine]

That ship looks familiar!

[Geraldine]

Oh! You asked how many copies were dumped Gernot? According to that article:
"Though it was believed that millions of copies of E.T. were disposed of in the landfill, Atari officials later verified the numbers to be around 700,000 cartridges of various titles, including E.T."
I will try Google translate, forgive me
"Obwohl angenommen wurde, dass Millionen von E.T.-Exemplaren auf der Mülldeponie entsorgt wurden, bestätigten Atari-Beamte später, dass die Zahlen bei etwa 700.000 Patronen verschiedener Titel lagen, einschließlich E. T."
Hope that helps Gernot, although I don't trust Google translate very much!