I'm temp-addicted to this show - I won't stop watching, over months if need be, till I've seen every single episode... The 'nostalgia-partition' of my heart nutrifies off these. 😅
Eleven years later and not a single video of you reviewing videogames in a suit on your channel 😔 You could've done something about this man! Just kidding, hope everything's going well for you.
Awesome to see Sierra represented on the show again. This show is a great Historical reference. I just started watching it for the first time and I was born in 1979. I didn't know it existed.
Perhaps the most significant historical connection this show has to computers is Stewart's co-host for many years, Gary Kildall, the inventor of what eventually became DOS. The story of his life is stuff of legend as Gary and his wife were visited at their home by executives from IBM, in hopes the Kildalls would sell exclusive rights and ownership of their operating system to IBM. The Kildalls and IBM could NOT agree on a deal, and as a result Microsoft CEO Bill Gates hired Seattle Computer Products programmer Tim Paterson to reverse-engineer Gary's OS which he planned to rename QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). After this sneaky project proved successful, Gates bought QDOS from Paterson, then turned around and sold QDOS to IBM, who renamed it IBM DOS. IBM made millions with the sales of their new IBM PC featuring DOS and a few programs written by Microsoft. Gary Kildall got NOTHING. ☠️
I watched it religiously back then, from mid 1980's up to early 2000's (Net Cafe). I don't think I've watched all episodes, but I'm sure I saw a majority of them. You have to remember that back then a new episode only comes once a week, so you have to wait. All other computer/electronic news came from magazines, such as Computer Shopper catalog, which I've kept a few of those from the late 1980's. So here we are now & all CC/NC episodes that ranged for 2 decades are at the touch of a button. And because of technology, now we can see new computer news once they release, & not have to wait a week or read monthly computer mags. I was also on QuantumLink, but it only lasted a month, heh. It was a taste of something Internet-like before the actual Internet became commonplace for everyone, 4-5 years after my stint on Q-Link.
I've watched it since it started, every week on PBS. I've been watching them again here, and it's truly just amazing to see a week by week...well, chronicle, of the evolution of computers. So many things we just take for granted today, like speech in games, was absolutely mind blowing when it first came out. It's also funny to see a lot of the missteps by certain industry figureheads, like Alan Shugart stubbornly insisting that nothing would ever replace magnetic disks as the storage medium of choice. It was really a one of a kind show. Stewart and Gary were not only hosts, but Stewart created the entire show, and their enthusiasm and interest in every guest and their products was infectious. Now you'd have some disinterested dumbass zoomer saying "IT'S YA BOY" before starting and going off on idiotic tangents during the interviews and whatnot. If they did make this show today, though, it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. Computer tech is only increasing by small increments these days. The CPU is a little faster, the graphics a little better. Back then, there were absolutely MASSIVE leaps forward in technology. We went from the bleeps and bloops of the Atari 2600 to the Amiga 500 in just 10 years. The first CD-ROM game would come out just 2 years later in 1989, and that same CD could hold EVERY 2600 game ever made on it! That's incredible to think. Gaming in particular is...well, pretty much the same now as it was 10 years ago. Just a little bit better overall.
@@MatthewLum11 so true. The DOS(Disk Operating System) allowed us to experience so much great software and games with relative ease. Thanks to Gary Kildal
@Dorelaxen You are so right in your observation of the world. We have seen by far more change in our lifetimes than the younger generations of today by far. The 80s and 90s advancements were awesome to have experienced.
Fate of Atlantis is probably still one of my favourite games. Needed the little booklet it came with to get through the game the first time round though. Still wish they'd make a movie out of it - would be awesome.
This is a 1992 episode. Some of the products shown were released in that year: Loom CD version, King's Quest V CD version, and in the best selling list, Windows 3.1
You're right it's 1992. Windows 3.1 was introduced in April 1992 so it had to be aired shortly thereafter. The closing credits did give a 1991 copyright, but it's the mention of Windows 3.1 on a best seller list that gives it away. They did show sneak peek version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis with a 1991 copyright (the officially released version gives a 1992 copyright). Some of the games presented have been out a few months (as of airing), some of them appearing to still use EGA graphics. Wordtris was from 1991 so it was already dated by the time this episode aired in reference to Soviet history.
The video digitalization quality of the original tape recording is fabulous. Especially the credits sequence: no stuttering or jumpy motion. Impressive. And it was does 10 years ago at that! What equipment did you folks use? As for the audio, right channel seems to be missing. Was this recorded in mono audio?
I was in high school that year and wanting to have a real computer to play these types of games, cause I was getting bored with Nintendo stuff. And I got one for graduation that got my through college both schoolwork and the best games I still remember,,,
I need to try virtual golf sometime. It looks fun :D Also, I think the other reason they didn't mention why it would speed up learning, is that you don't have to keep chasing down your balls. I suppose you could use a driving range for that but not as cool ^_^
This was the days before good Audio Compression and Low Color/Rez Graphics. He talked about how Audio limited the game. Don't Get Me Wrong Folks!!! I love these guys! It is always fun to see how Tech changed the world. Lucas Arts Games!! I loved Labyrinth and Maniac Mansion!! Actually Lucas Games in General. They were brilliant! I actually got to live all this crap from the Original Odyssey.
Stuart on his own. Gary busy, George and Jan not available to stand in for him? Or Jan deciding she’d had enough of being, not second fiddle, but third fiddle?
many people know about ADSL but how may have tried VDSL. I was 300 meters from the phone exchnge and VDSL was almost as good as fiber optics. Then I moved to a city where everybody had fiber. And now I dont want to move anymore.
I didn't follow computer news back then, is somewhat a shame. I did have a 8 bit atari and many games, during 1986-1991 or so. And my next computer was much later, in 1998, with Windows 95 and internet. Windows 95 was the worst Microsoft OS,, the most unstable operating system ever, crashing a few times every day. It's amazing how people bought a defective product and just accept it is deffective. Microsoft was a magician and made people get used to accept software problems.
People always say this shit, just because your mileage was different doesn't make the OS crap for everyone else. Hardware, drivers, your inability to do stuff, could be one of many things. I can't climb Mt Everest but it doesn't make it shit.
Sega's laserdisk effort was a bit hokey, likely because the crew didn't know as much about moviemaking as they actually needed to. ALG's "Mad Dog McCree" upped the ante somewhat.
played that holographic game as a kid in a hotel casino in atlantic city...omg and he calls it frivolous...this dude has opinions and imposes them in almost every episode, major snob
I'm temp-addicted to this show - I won't stop watching, over months if need be, till I've seen every single episode...
The 'nostalgia-partition' of my heart nutrifies off these. 😅
Reviewing computer games in a suit ... GOD i miss those times!
Eleven years later and not a single video of you reviewing videogames in a suit on your channel 😔
You could've done something about this man!
Just kidding, hope everything's going well for you.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was beautiful and fun. Completed it as a kid.
The only TRUE Indiana Jones 4
I got stuck for weeks, and sometimes months, as a kid . It took me a year to finish it. 😂
Love that game
Awesome to see Sierra represented on the show again. This show is a great Historical reference. I just started watching it for the first time and I was born in 1979. I didn't know it existed.
Perhaps the most significant historical connection this show has to computers is Stewart's co-host for many years, Gary Kildall, the inventor of what eventually became DOS. The story of his life is stuff of legend as Gary and his wife were visited at their home by executives from IBM, in hopes the Kildalls would sell exclusive rights and ownership of their operating system to IBM.
The Kildalls and IBM could NOT agree on a deal, and as a result Microsoft CEO Bill Gates hired Seattle Computer Products programmer Tim Paterson to reverse-engineer Gary's OS which he planned to rename QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). After this sneaky project proved successful, Gates bought QDOS from Paterson, then turned around and sold QDOS to IBM, who renamed it IBM DOS.
IBM made millions with the sales of their new IBM PC featuring DOS and a few programs written by Microsoft. Gary Kildall got NOTHING. ☠️
I watched it religiously back then, from mid 1980's up to early 2000's (Net Cafe). I don't think I've watched all episodes, but I'm sure I saw a majority of them. You have to remember that back then a new episode only comes once a week, so you have to wait. All other computer/electronic news came from magazines, such as Computer Shopper catalog, which I've kept a few of those from the late 1980's. So here we are now & all CC/NC episodes that ranged for 2 decades are at the touch of a button. And because of technology, now we can see new computer news once they release, & not have to wait a week or read monthly computer mags. I was also on QuantumLink, but it only lasted a month, heh. It was a taste of something Internet-like before the actual Internet became commonplace for everyone, 4-5 years after my stint on Q-Link.
I've watched it since it started, every week on PBS. I've been watching them again here, and it's truly just amazing to see a week by week...well, chronicle, of the evolution of computers. So many things we just take for granted today, like speech in games, was absolutely mind blowing when it first came out. It's also funny to see a lot of the missteps by certain industry figureheads, like Alan Shugart stubbornly insisting that nothing would ever replace magnetic disks as the storage medium of choice. It was really a one of a kind show. Stewart and Gary were not only hosts, but Stewart created the entire show, and their enthusiasm and interest in every guest and their products was infectious. Now you'd have some disinterested dumbass zoomer saying "IT'S YA BOY" before starting and going off on idiotic tangents during the interviews and whatnot. If they did make this show today, though, it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. Computer tech is only increasing by small increments these days. The CPU is a little faster, the graphics a little better. Back then, there were absolutely MASSIVE leaps forward in technology. We went from the bleeps and bloops of the Atari 2600 to the Amiga 500 in just 10 years. The first CD-ROM game would come out just 2 years later in 1989, and that same CD could hold EVERY 2600 game ever made on it! That's incredible to think. Gaming in particular is...well, pretty much the same now as it was 10 years ago. Just a little bit better overall.
@@MatthewLum11 so true. The DOS(Disk Operating System) allowed us to experience so much great software and games with relative ease. Thanks to Gary Kildal
@Dorelaxen You are so right in your observation of the world. We have seen by far more change in our lifetimes than the younger generations of today by far. The 80s and 90s advancements were awesome to have experienced.
My left ear is having a party but my right ear is depressed.
Fate of Atlantis is probably still one of my favourite games. Needed the little booklet it came with to get through the game the first time round though. Still wish they'd make a movie out of it - would be awesome.
I played Time Travel when I was a kid in the arcade, and it sucked, didn't even know what I was doing!!!!!
This is a 1992 episode. Some of the products shown were released in that year: Loom CD version, King's Quest V CD version, and in the best selling list, Windows 3.1
Are you sure they weren't giving an advance sneak peak at future products?
Well the references to the "Soviet Union" sure make it sound like 1991
You're right it's 1992. Windows 3.1 was introduced in April 1992 so it had to be aired shortly thereafter. The closing credits did give a 1991 copyright, but it's the mention of Windows 3.1 on a best seller list that gives it away. They did show sneak peek version of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis with a 1991 copyright (the officially released version gives a 1992 copyright). Some of the games presented have been out a few months (as of airing), some of them appearing to still use EGA graphics. Wordtris was from 1991 so it was already dated by the time this episode aired in reference to Soviet history.
Sometimes these shows are repeated, except that the “Random Access” news section gets replaced.
I remember playing Winter Games. Never could get the ski jump...
The Indiana Jones games still looks good in 2021
Wow Spectrum Holobyte, I remember them from Top Gun on the first PlayStation. 😂🤣😂🤣
The video digitalization quality of the original tape recording is fabulous. Especially the credits sequence: no stuttering or jumpy motion. Impressive. And it was does 10 years ago at that! What equipment did you folks use?
As for the audio, right channel seems to be missing. Was this recorded in mono audio?
I was in high school that year and wanting to have a real computer to play these types of games, cause I was getting bored with Nintendo stuff. And I got one for graduation that got my through college both schoolwork and the best games I still remember,,,
Ed Badasov's hair is absoulutley amazing
you mean his hair is absolutely badas?
Everything was SO formal back then.
Suits and press shirts.
I need to try virtual golf sometime. It looks fun :D Also, I think the other reason they didn't mention why it would speed up learning, is that you don't have to keep chasing down your balls. I suppose you could use a driving range for that but not as cool ^_^
I use to play Time Traveler at my local arcade in Colorado
This was the days before good Audio Compression and Low Color/Rez Graphics. He talked about how Audio limited the game. Don't Get Me Wrong Folks!!! I love these guys! It is always fun to see how Tech changed the world. Lucas Arts Games!! I loved Labyrinth and Maniac Mansion!! Actually Lucas Games in General. They were brilliant! I actually got to live all this crap from the Original Odyssey.
That troll of LA in Random Access was straight gangsta.
You ever notice how the host of the show is more happier when he covers video games lol 😂
Stuart on his own. Gary busy, George and Jan not available to stand in for him? Or Jan deciding she’d had enough of being, not second fiddle, but third fiddle?
I love Railroad Tycoon, the original one. It's the only one I like to play even to this day.
I played the crap out of 'Fate of Atlantis'. Great game.
Imagine showing off King's Quest V by way of demonstrating Cedric the owl and his voice acting!
I miss the early 90s. Things weren’t too well known and gaming hadn’t become main stream yet.
Brian Moriarty made one of the best games ever made for DOS....The Dig. You can buy it on Steam for 5.99 and it's still a good game!
Get it from GOG, not Steam. :D
The music in The Dig is fabulous synthesizer music! 🎶♥️🎵
3:00 Making backgrounds for Monkey Island 2, I think.
oh god winter olimpics used to play it with my family in 1997
This was the last time the words "cleverest programming" and "Electronic Arts" were used in the same sentence.
Time Traveler was a PITA to play. That game was 100% quick time events.
There should be a YT feature that gives you the option to play back the video audio in mono.
many people know about ADSL but how may have tried VDSL.
I was 300 meters from the phone exchnge and VDSL was almost as good as fiber optics.
Then I moved to a city where everybody had fiber. And now I dont want to move anymore.
27:12 LA traffic burn?!?
Wait.... I shouldn't copy my floppy ? Crap, i didn't knew that !
5:00. That is John Mullany.
Don't coppy that floppy!
Back when Lucasfilm was a respectable company.
Playmaker Football better than Madden 24
no audio?
Still waiting for Putin datadisk for Crisis in Kremlin
why does he have to nod his head when he says the computer chroniclez
Peter Griffin 15:12
My God all he needs is the balls chin
Ha
I want that Russia game!!!
Holographic? Lol
I didn't follow computer news back then, is somewhat a shame. I did have a 8 bit atari and many games, during 1986-1991 or so. And my next computer was much later, in 1998, with Windows 95 and internet. Windows 95 was the worst Microsoft OS,, the most unstable operating system ever, crashing a few times every day. It's amazing how people bought a defective product and just accept it is deffective. Microsoft was a magician and made people get used to accept software problems.
Windows 95 was a great OS. You probably had dodgy hardware or expansion cards or incorrectly installed or buggy device drivers.
Never had a single issue with Win95. Internet support was amazing compared against Win 3.1 which was a horrific pain with its Trumpet winsock.
People always say this shit, just because your mileage was different doesn't make the OS crap for everyone else. Hardware, drivers, your inability to do stuff, could be one of many things. I can't climb Mt Everest but it doesn't make it shit.
Bruce Shelley! The real talent not Sid.
I'm pretty certain that they are both talented.
Communism jokes.... and then their children begged for communism.
Time Traveler was so boring.
Sega's laserdisk effort was a bit hokey, likely because the crew didn't know as much about moviemaking as they actually needed to. ALG's "Mad Dog McCree" upped the ante somewhat.
played that holographic game as a kid in a hotel casino in atlantic city...omg and he calls it frivolous...this dude has opinions and imposes them in almost every episode, major snob
It's his show. He can have opinions in it.
Zork