The Sims wouldn't exist without This | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2019
- The Sims almost certainly wouldn't exist, or at least, be the same without a game released in 1985 known as Little Computer People. Published by Activision, it's one of the first instances of a "virtual pet" or "human simulator" and was arguably well ahead of its time. Here I'm investigating the original Commodore 64 release which poised as a special new research project, to observe actual living people who resided in our personal computers. By creating a house on a disk, the idea was to coax these little people out of the circuitry, and into a 2 1/2 story house, where we could interact, play games and even starve, if we so choose. Good times indeed.
Thank you to both Stuart Ashen of Ashens, and Clint Basinger of LGR for lending their superlative voices for this episode.
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As to why Bobby would rather become ill of dehydration than drink directly out of his tap, is one of life's greatest mysteries. Maybe he's not a fan of the water hardness in his area.
When I was 14, my secondary school closed and being friends with the I.T. teacher, he let me plunder the department for Commodore stuff. I came home with a load of books and a disk copy of LCP, the "House On A Disk" pack like in the video. I kept it for about 35 years, but rather than sell it I donated it to the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester, UK. It's still there.
So it's a screen saver that burns a house into your computer screen.
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Ashens AND LGR Cameos?
HOLY CRAP, LGR for that voice over was AWESOME, love these style of videos, a documentary and a "game review" at the same time. Great video keep em coming....
Funny, that BMW Dealer sounds an awful lot like LGR.
I remember programming my own Tamagotchi-esque 'thing' to look after in ZX Spectrum BASIC. It's simple hunger system allowed the user to feed it 5 types of food or drink that would increase it's hunger and thirst meters (a full bar representing it was full, i.e not hungry or thirsty). Using a ton of DATA lines I could have it change expressions as time passed, but while I didn't program in any games to play, it's happiness was purely based on how hungry, thirsty and clean it was (keeping that digital poop scoop on hand). I did include a real time clock and an alarm feature into it so it would sleep after a certain time and wake up either on it's own accord if the alarm was switched off, or when the alarm sounded.
I thoroughly enjoyed this back in the day. Mine was called Hubert ;)
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Is it weird I felt a tiny sense of sadness for Bobby when the game finally got powered off?
Bobby: Would you like to play a game?
"This was Activision and new experiences was their mantra." Oh how the times keep a changin
Seems that Bobby has a much more exciting life than mine... at least he can play the piano.
Despite being into video games from the era, I've never heard of this title until today. Amazing to know that virtual pet ideas were being floated that far back.
You have no idea how happy i am someone finally reviewed this in detail.
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Lovely to hear the silky dulcet tones of young Clint from LGR. I often think of you two as two sides of the same coin (just one side has an eagle and the other has old Liz)
I always wondered what happened to TRON after he defeated the MCP. Looks like he settled down into retirement quite nicely.
Did you get Ashens to read out the note from the publisher?