When I think of computers of the 1980s, I don't think of the freaking Lisa. I think of the Commodore 64.

@KimPossibleShockwave

Ай бұрын

1990's too, even when IBM clones were rising in popularity. I was in the single digits in the 90's and we had a C64 before we got a x386 with Windows 3.1, heh.

@winstonslone2797

Ай бұрын

I always think of the IBM PC when an 80s computer comes to mind. You could buy a few IBM computers for the price of one Lisa

@jgsimonian

Ай бұрын

There was a “Ford vs. Chevy” mentality with Commodore vs. Atari. I was in the Atari camp; I had the Atari 400 and then 800 and then the Atari ST. They seemed to fall apart after that. I do remember the BBS’s…good times! Eventually I switched to DOS and then Windows, until I bought my first Mac. Now I’m mainly in the Apple “eco-system.”

@michaelarighi5268

Ай бұрын

In the early '70s, in grad school, I had used an IBM mainframe that took up most of a building. A 360/65 that had put us on the moon a few years previous. It had 64K of "scratchpad" (RAM) memory. When I found, in the early '80s, that I could get a C64 for ~$250, with the same amount of memory and it took less space on my desk than my typewriter, I was sold. Switched over to a 486 and Windows 3.1 in about 1992. Got disgusted with Micro$oft's consumer-hostile attitude by the end of the decade, then started running early Linux on a Pentium in 2003 and never looked back. (Current system is an Intel I-5/13th gen with Debian 12 and more RAM than my first 120 Mb hard disk).

@winstonslone2797

Ай бұрын

@@michaelarighi5268 nice, I wish I could of lived then. I'm only 42 but been into computers since I was 5.

Dungeons and Dragons While started in the 1970s, it became a phenomenon in the 80s. The Satanic Panic response to the game was very much an 80s thing.

Even among the nerds, no one had a Lisa. My dad was the biggest nerd you would find, but nope, he got a TI-99/4A with every single bell and whistle it came with. Yep, I could play PARSEC with the voice, "Press fire to begin".

@patricksweeney6334

26 күн бұрын

Heh. Working at TI from ‘78 to ‘83, naturally my first and second computers were 99s… first the /4 and then months afterwards moving up to the /4a. We got a discount, though it was on refurbed gear. By the time the dust settled on building that out, I’d dropped about $2500 1980-ish dollars on my rig. Favorite memory from that might be using the Speech Synthesizer and the Terminal Emulator cartridge to (completely accidentally) produce a voice pattern that sounded virtually to the I’ll-fated Science Officer in “Alien”. That was such an amazingly fun time to have lived and worked through.

@troyh3628

25 күн бұрын

@@patricksweeney6334 Good times indeed, I was just a kid, but I had a lot of fun on that system too. I broke two sets of joysticks playing Parsec, it got intense. I also had Q-Bert, and Car Wars, and a bunch of games on floppy.

@bruceshaw3881

24 күн бұрын

I picked up 2 Lisas used

@chrisdavis3055

17 күн бұрын

Lisa was not marketed to individuals, it was far too expensive (over $30k when adjusted for inflation). Lisa was used almost exclusively by businesses. Even when the price of Lisa came down later in the 80s (thank primarily to Sun Remarketing) it was no match for the Macintosh available at that time.

@farab4391

12 күн бұрын

My first computer was a TI-99 and taught myself programming while still in primary school. I miss those days

you completely left out commodore 64 and amiga ;)

@marcusfridh8489

Ай бұрын

And the allways overshadowed C Vic-20

@UndercoverScambaiter

Ай бұрын

Yes I came here to say the same thing. The C64 is the best selling model of all time. How can it be left out?

@chrisdavis3055

17 күн бұрын

@@UndercoverScambaiter If it's the best selling of all time, that means it is unlikely to be something "only nerds will remember".

You missed probably the biggest Nerd craze of the 1980s - the rise of fantasy role playing games/dungeons and dragons!

@surferdude4487

18 күн бұрын

Also Champions, GURPS and the whole series of Steve Jackson pocket games.

@Thane36425

17 күн бұрын

People still play it so it hasn't been forgotten.

@AnyangU

17 күн бұрын

@@Thane36425 Almost none of that list has been forgotten.

@nemofox_68

13 күн бұрын

He missed Rubik’s Cube, the Commodore 64, the Amiga, E.T., the Goonies, the space shuttles, Wargames (movie), Whiz Kids, D.A.R.Y.L., Back to the Future, Tron, The Last Starfighter, electronic chess games...

@wardragonprime

10 күн бұрын

Don't forget Traveller!!!😀😀😀

When those "expensive" $30 Laserdisc movies first came out, movies on VHS/Beta were selling for $100. (Which is why nearly every little town had at least one video rental store.)

@musicman8270

25 күн бұрын

My very first rental in VHS was Horse Whisperer. Fifteen dollars a night, about fourty five in todays dollars. The movie sucked btw, but the place I rented it from (the TV store I bought my VCR from) only had that one available

@N4DJC

18 күн бұрын

I still have the first Star Wars movie on VHS, bought from a rental store for $89. I had to pre pay and get on a list to get it. It has rental only on the box.

I have two Vectrex consoles now. One of them is my original from 1982.

Only nerds will remember GI Joe? One of the most popular toy lines and cartoons of the decade?

@BigFunnyGiant

Ай бұрын

Obviously. That’s clickbait.

@psciotto

Ай бұрын

@@BigFunnyGiant ya think?

@barbaric3547

Ай бұрын

Knowing is half the battle.

@psciotto

Ай бұрын

Yo Joe!

@jimmicrackhead12

Ай бұрын

This video is made for wanna be nerds

Somebody stole my laserdisc, thinking it was a CD changer, they left the laserdiscs thinking they were albums.

Apple learned the wrong lessons from the LISA failure. They hobbled the Macintosh extremely by only installing 128k. It should have had a megabyte, 512 at the least. Every single review complained about the price and what you got. Even DOS PCs had more RAM at the time. The Mac needed at least 512k preferable a megabyte.

@surferdude4487

18 күн бұрын

Even looking at Apple's current offerings, you have to pay way too much to get a decent amount of RAM and storage. That's the main reason I keep buying PCs.

@marklar7551

2 күн бұрын

We bought a Commodore 128C instead of a Mac

Some things I remember of the 80's was that there were barely any AI art or synthetic voices like in this video and many other YT vids these days.

my first job when I left school in 83 was repairing and upgrading ZX Spectrums

@DeltaSol3

Ай бұрын

Damn, that was a great start in the industry

@patricksweeney6334

26 күн бұрын

“My first job when I left school in 83 was repairing and upgrading ZX Spectrums.” Real similar start… Got recruited outta Tech School by TI in ‘78, and spent the next five years there, supporting and servicing their mini-computers and micro-computers at their research facility in Austin… while building out my 99/4 and /4a rig at home. What a treat that was.

Apple Lisa, $9,995 in 1983 money is $32,000 today. And people think Vision Pro is elitist, lol.

@epobirs

Ай бұрын

Apple has always been very pricey. One of the reasons my first machine was an Atari 800 was the steep cost of entry for the Apples.

@alysdexia

Ай бұрын

@@epobirsApple hasn’t: eMac, iMac, iBook, Mac Mini, iPod nano/shuffle/Touch, iPad, iPhone SE, Mac mini, iPad mini 6 (last two for $100 off from resale)

"VECTREX: Preferable to its predecessors, superior to its successors." Nice video. As a nerd born in 1986 in Poland, I experienced some of his stuff only in the '90s when it became available after the COCOM embargo went down. People were fascinated with Western pop culture and tech, after long decades of being cut off and under Soviet influence. He-Man, G.I.Joe and - to some extent - 8 bit computers like C64, ZX Spectrum or Atari became a thing, later on almost entirely replaced with PCs. No Oregon Trail here, and Laserdisc never really took off apart from some real enthusiasts, because at the time it could reach the Polish masses, VHS was gaining traction for a good reason: the ability to record TV shows to watch later. Cassette rental shops boomed and we had one literally under our window. Handheld games made in the USSR were somewhat popular, they've become collectibles that can insanely go up in prices on secondhand markets.

Why wont anyone give some love for the C Vic-20, i had one and i loved it. Totally overshadowed by the C-64, and often forgotten in nostagia reviews and retrospections

@6581punk

Ай бұрын

William Shatner even did the advert for it.

@Agnarian

Ай бұрын

The vic-20 was the one you messed around with at KMart not own! I kid!

@tarstarkusz

Ай бұрын

I had one. I even bought it myself saving up money mowing lawns and the like. Luckily I was able to talk my parents into buying me a 64.

@alysdexia

Ай бұрын

write properly

@MGForums

Ай бұрын

The Commodore 16 too :)

Sorry to correct you about the BBC Microcomputer, but in the UK 🇬🇧, the BBC Model B retailed for £399.99, unsure about it’s cheaper version the BBC Model A, think it was £299.99, but had some features removed. Looked identical to the model B and could also be upgraded to the model B. The budget Option was the Acorn Electron, priced at £199.99.

@Fadingfool

24 күн бұрын

The main difference was the Model A had half the RAM.

Growing up in the 1980's was incomparable. If you know, you know.

The ZX Spectrum in its original form had a worldwide influence which is widely unknown. Preceding the Commodore 64 by roughly half a year in 1982 it was a rather simple computer featuring a Z80 CPU, some RAM and no special chips. Well, the ULA exists but this chip only wraps up some circuitry and thus can be replaced, the Leningrad board does just that IIRC. With its huge software library and simple to reproduce hardware the ZX Spectrum spawned a lot of clones around the world, especially in Eastern Europe. More than 100 clones exist(ed) and the impact of the ZX Spectrum on the home computing world can hardly be exaggerated. Only those North Americans may never have heared about it due to poor market entry strategies. Say hello to Timex.

@va3ngc

20 күн бұрын

The predecessor was released in NA as the Timex Sinclair 1000. It was B&W. I had a friend who bought one. I ended up with it at some point. I don't ever recall seeing the Speccy itself being released here. If it was, it was short lived. Commodore released the C-16 and Plus/4 to compete with it and at the time that market dried up because the C-64 prices dropped as well. In the end pretty much everyone here in Canada and the US went for a C-64 or a C-128 which they ran in C-64 mode.

@daviddowsett1658

17 күн бұрын

@@va3ngc Timex was the US name, in the UK (home to the manufacture Sinclair) it was called the ZX81 (81 for the year of release 1981), I was hoping for an Atari 2600 as lets face it I just wanted to play games at 9 years old, but I got a ZX81 as my folks thought it might help me learn programing (£££), with it's built in 1k of RAM (yes that's 1k), luckily that also bought me a 16k ram pack that you plugged in, don't touch it or it would crash the system, haha. There was a prototype to this the ZX80 but that's before my time, haha

The beeb is responsible for the ARM architecture. In some way, every person in the world now owns a beeb.

@UKCougar

Ай бұрын

Well, yes and no. Acorn are responsible for both.

@tarstarkusz

Ай бұрын

@@UKCougar Acorn is the company that created the beeb.

BBSs were amazing. Definitely a precursor to the internet. Community was really great. Like the Coleco, but prefer the trash 80. Still have both.

Couldn't afford a BBC so had to make do with Acorn Electron at home. School went from a couple of 380Z's to around 15 BBC model B's. Still vaguely remember starting computing lessons with punched cards which were sent off for processing. Results were returned on punched tape the following week. Scary when you consider just how much has changed.

I know now about most of them, but don't actually remember them from back then. I didn't had the chance, I was on the other side of the iron curtain. I wish I wasn't. So many many fascinating things to experience as a young person.

Put the price of the Lisa in an inflation calculator, $10k in 1980 would be 38-39k today, 1989 would be 25-26k today. Sheesh.

@6581punk

Ай бұрын

That and the fact the machine was a little slow to run its software was why it kinda failed. The Mac was a pretty stupid solution though. I'd moved from a 8 colour computer to a 4096 colour computer in 1987 while the Mac was mono.

@Nebulous6

Күн бұрын

@@6581punk Ah yes, the Amiga. Interestingly, the Amiga could have been released officially in 1984 instead of '85 had Tremiel's Atari not tied them up in court for almost a year. Amiga dev boxes have the year 1984 on them. Made the Mac look like a boring still picture compared to a rock video.

Max Headroom original Giga Chad

Well, you covered two iconic British computers of the '80s. Would've been nice had you thrown in the Commodore 64 for us Americans. I'd never even heard of a BBC Micro or ZX Spectrum back then. Probably also should have covered the Mac, which did far better than the Lisa. I think maybe 3 or 4 people bought a Lisa.

@Joreel

Ай бұрын

The Commodore and the TRS80 here in the US. The TRS80 came out in 1977 or 1978 if I remember correctly.

@davidstone1293

Ай бұрын

TRS80 came first but was more accepted in schools as a “real” computer for education. I remember them being both in my high-school and my university. The Commodore 64 was one of the iconic home computers here in the US.

@bryanobrien2726

Ай бұрын

Hence the title of the video . They're supposed to be obscure things though near half are pretty mainstream and not just for nerds .

@sorphin

Ай бұрын

Never had a C64, had an Atari 800XL. Honestly in the 80s growing up, never heard of (or knew anyone who had) Commodore stuff. Still have never messed with a C64. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Different things for different people.

@bryanobrien2726

Ай бұрын

​@@sorphin I had an Atari 400 and later a Commodore 64 . My high school used Commodore 64s and 128s in the computer labs .

I would argue that anyone who attended public elementary school in the 1980s remembers 'Oregon Trail,' not just nerds. We were literally required to play the game in class. Even the dumb jocks who hated computers and video games remember the game, because they were forced to play it too. As a nerd, I liked it, but liking the game isn't required to remember it. The He Man show is also remembered by everyone who was 12 or under in the 1980s, but the action figure toys could be considered a nerd item so they would fit if you had specified the action figures. All of the other items on the list do seem to fit, though some are less nerdy than others.

@raestalgia

23 күн бұрын

Ikr. Yeah, I hated that game. I had to literally beg my teacher not to let me play that game because it gave me nightmares.

@steamdeckknights8978

16 күн бұрын

Loved it!!!!! I also enjoy the remake from time to time

I was an adult in the 80s, starting out my civilian career after leaving the military. I very quickly wound up in software in "Silicon Valley" (so termed long before it became synonymous with software and was more hardware oriented), and worked in that field for over two decades.

Oh man, did that take me back. I did a lot of work in Hypercard back then, mostly multimedia card stacks. Remember the first, full-color, 3D rendered CD-ROM game, Myst? That was authored in Hypercard. The had to do a lot of work to get that game to fit and play on one CD. MIDI is something I use to this day extensively. Only now, except for a MIDI keyboard controller, Arturia's, Keylab 49, my entire studio: music creation, audio mixing, video editing, 2d and 3d graphics and animation, are all virtual, all of it is "inside the box." Software packages that I use on a regular basis include: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects; Modo, Cinema4D, and Maya; DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro; Logic Pro, and Ableton Live; plus a whole lot of additional apps in the form of plugins for the main apps along with numerous large sound FX and sampled instument libraries. To think where we are now vs. 40+ years ago in terms of computing capabilities, it really boggles the mind sometimes.

Have to mention that the price of the BBC B was £399 at launch and didn't really drop much during its lifespan. The Electron was a lower powered version of the same computer which sold for significantly less. As a comparison the Commodore 64 sold for around £200 in the UK for much of its lifetime. The BBC B was wildly prevalent in schools (the school I went to had about 15 of them networked in the computer room). If you had a BBC B at home in the 80s you would definitely be considered to be rich!

I had a vectrex I miss that thing. It was ancient by the time I had got it when I was like 7 or 8. I was born in 89

I remember most of this stuff because I'm 55 years old I'm not a Nerd just have a brain where memories are stored. 1980s, is not that long ago.

@MrSpuzzz

22 күн бұрын

I’m about your age too. I also feel like the 80s was not that long ago but let’s put it into perspective. Imagine if someone in 1984 started reminiscing about World War II memories, you wouldn’t have said that wasn’t that long ago, would you? Man our parents were too young to remember WW2. That’s about the same difference in time.

Only been a nerd since the 1980s, since I was born in the mid 80s

I was a kid in the 80s, born in 78, i was a nerd in that decade and miss it a lot. Best there was and I remember many of these then.

The mister fpga is a great way of checking out those great consoles and computers of the 1980’s and 1990’s

I wish I would have known about the Vectrex back when I was buying consoles (tower of power, 3DO, Jaguar) for under a hundred dollars each including shipping. I would have bought it.

@kh7955

Ай бұрын

Good for you!

@jackgilchrist

Ай бұрын

The Vectrex goes for a lot more than that now. I regularly see them at $500 in well used condition without any carts. I think I'm about ready to sell mine.

Max Headroom made it into Back to the Future, so must've been an 80s icon 🙂

Sierra had most of my time as a teenager. King's Quest III was the first adventure game I played and after that I was hooked. I loved Space Quest and Police Quest, not to mention Leisure Suite Larry 🙂

9:20 I had one of those. 13:45 I remember when our school had a PC and a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Everyone wanted to use the PC because it was hard to enter BASIC commands into the other one. 17:00 I've had one of those. Someone had an accident with the one he borrowed from me, so... I don't really remember if he bought a new one for me or offered to pay for one of my choosing. Be that as it may, I ended up having another one with solar cells.

Sadly, Dave Smith, one of the founders of MIDI, died a few years ago. I own a Dave Smith Instruments synthesizer, the Prophet 12. And it's totally correct, MIDI is still in use, and if you understood MIDI 1.0 back then, you still understand MIDI. It runs my music studio, the main tech change for me is MIDI over USB. Which has downsides, but that's another discussion.

Oh my gosh, I loved The Computer Chronicles!

The Sinclair was a British computer so the correct pronunciation is ZED X not ZEE X The rise of the graphic novel owe a lot to the British Comic 2000AD , both Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons worked for 2000AD in their pre Watchmen days with stories that had complex storey telling and deeper character development.

I wasn't a nerd but I remember all of this stuff. oh..... wait....

You forgot that Quantum Leap spawned a sequel series. It's currently on its second season, I believe

@Joreel

Ай бұрын

It was cancelled 🥺

@cmfrancis1

28 күн бұрын

And it sucked.

@ChozoSR388

20 күн бұрын

@@cmfrancis1 I kinda liked it. Sure it wasn't the original show, but I thought it was good on its own.

@ChozoSR388

20 күн бұрын

@@Joreel Oh no! Awww, that sucks. So, it literally got canceled right in the middle of Season 2?

i'm from 2000s but I do remember these things

Someone hacked into two Chicago tv stations with an image of Max Headroom and interrupting the regular programming.

Music Nerd here. The music behind Max Headroom's first shot is Paranomia by The Art of Noise. Just played it yesterday for my kid, haven't heard it since the 80s, now twice in a week in '24. Weird. Great album, tho. Anne Dudley ftw. And Max.

Amstrad Computers. The BBC computers went into the schools, Sir Clive Sinclair created the Spectrum computers, and Commodore had their own computers, but Amstrad started by making you by the monitor with the computer, and not doing the mix and match jobs. Most people who bought a computer would buy a computer, and attach it to the TV. Amstrad would not allow that to happen. The home computer came with either a cassette tape, or disk drive, next to the keyboard, as an integrated unit. What Amstrad did though was to have different models of computer, so they had models for the home computer, but also business computers as well. There were word processors available for the home computers, and you could attach a printer to it, but the business computers they made could be purchased with a printer, or without, as required. Amstrad bought out Sinclair, so the Amstrad home computer looked very similar to the later versions of the Spectrum, although the programs from one could not be used on the other one.

Watching this on my smartphone while sitting on the crapper. How far we have come.

Not sure you needed to be nerd to know these, but I knew most of these items. But then I was into computers since sometime in the 1970s, and graduated class of 83, and I am a software engineer for a living, and also a video gamer. Oregon Trail was originally a text game in BASIC. Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium seems to be responsible for the graphic version. I am familiar with MECC, because I heard about them as I was in Saint Louis Park Minnesota until I was 19 or something. Perhaps because of MECC, and perhaps because Minneapolis was actually a bit of computing hub, I had access to computers through libraries and schools since I was a 13 or so. Thanks Minnesota, you provided me with a career in computers.

I've still got my Garbage Pail Kids collection, including first, second and third series cards. Some of my favorites are: Dry Guy, Scratching Post Paul, Baked Jake and Rat-sucker Randall.

Thanks for using one of my Thumbnails guys! :D (Robocop ZX Spectrum) - Pronounced ZED EX Spectrum though, not ZEE EX. Subbed to your channel :)

Sinclair Zee Ex ????!!! I have a mini museum at home with dozens of Spectrum versions and clones.

@jackgilchrist

Ай бұрын

Very cool. I'd do the same with Commodores if I had the wherewithal.

@6581punk

Ай бұрын

Zed Ex of course. I've got a ZX81, Spectrum 48k, Spectrum Plus, 128k (toast rack), two +2s, a QL and a Spectrum Next.

@CDP-1802

Ай бұрын

British people will spend 20 minutes explaining why it's important to pronounce ZX the way the Sinclair designers intended then in the same breath say "Zed 80" 🤣

I was…..a 1980s girl in a UK school and my goodness, I LOVED that BBC micro:D

A lot of this is just growing up in the 1980s, it has nothing to do about being a nerd.

I remember when someone tried to explain Hyper Card to me. I had no idea what it was for. Until I finally taught myself HTML.

The Entomology department at the university I went to had a Lisa. They never much used it. The last I remember it was sitting in a box under a workbench. I wonder if it's still around somewhere. Wouldn't surprise me if it's still in that box under the same workbench.

I remember the Atari video game in 1980s and the empire strikes back figures

Clearly you didn't have any BBS footage to accompany your video...

@veganmeatballsareyoukiddingme

Ай бұрын

And there's definitely bbs footage out there

Never heard of Lisa until this. The only ones I heard of were the commodore's and the trs80.

Aw, shucks. I was hoping you'd say "Now you know about GI Joe...and knowing is half the battle!"

Wow, didn't realise Quantum Leap only started in 1989, it feels like it was way before that

@SkiBumMSP

11 күн бұрын

I was kinda surprised when it mentioned Quantum Leap, as I always associated that with the 90s. If wanting to talk about 80's shows, we should be talking about things like Knight Rider, The A-Team, Greatest American Hero, and Remington Steele (My mother loved that show - she thought Pierce Brosnan was cute).

I recently sold my Vectrex system a few months ago...$600.00 plus 6 games with screen overlays. I could have gotten more had I tossed it on EBay etc but shipping would be a huge chunk of change given its weight

very enjoyable thank you!

@memorysurge

Ай бұрын

Make sure to subscribe :)

All this tech....How we were so amazed back then with every advancement .Now we're so numb to it the wow factor is practically gone.Maybe that's why old school gaming and arcades made a come back. We needed to take a step back to retro gaming,too simpler days.

I learned PC basics on a trash 80 in high school but I lusted for the commodore 64 (mostly because of the bach invention #13 commercial)

Talking about the Lisa and showing a picture of Bill Gates…. You and I remember the 80s very differently.

You forgor Elf Quest with came out in 1978 as the first Graphic novels. They preceeded the Marvel and DC graphic novels with came out later.

@flaircraft

Ай бұрын

I spent as much time with Cutter, Leetah and Skywise as I did with Oregon Trail :)

@retrorewind80s

20 күн бұрын

The EQ graphic novels didn't come out until the 80s, tho. They were magazines first (not even comics). I drew for the comic in the 90s.

I love your videos can you do one on the complete of consoles and computers as well as handhelds

I own 3 vectrexes. But I can tell you it was not high priced. An Atari 2600 was 200 bucks too and required a TV. The Colecovision was 169, a much better deal than the 2600. The 5200 was $269

8:38 - And giving little kids like myself a complex!😬 Word of advice,don't put your name, or anybody else's name you know of into it. You'll thank me later.😆 11:46 - YES!😁 I would go over to my friend's house just to play with their Colecovision. Never mind going over there to see her, I wanted to play The Smurfs game. However, I had to eventually hand over the controls to my friend's brothers so they could play Donkey Kong. It would be years later(Around 1987)when I would own my own gaming system,Nintendo.

Remember? I still have half of them!

I’m an 80s kid but only saw my first apple lisa in 2007

You forgot to normalize the audio

@memorysurge

Ай бұрын

what do you mean?

I’m one of the nerds still developing games in HyperCard.

Yep, I remember most of those. But some of them were very much a US phenomenon. You can add "choose your own adventure books" to that list.

Those screenshots from Mystery House are from two different games. The in-game footage is from an Apple ][ game by a company who would later become Sierra On-Line. The title screen is a wholly unrelated Japanese game from a couple of years later. #80sNerd

No mention of Commodore 64? Fun fact about Colecovision. It was created by the Connecticut Leather Company. CO-LE-CO. It was an actual leather company that decided it wanted to get into the video game craze. How random is that?

I remember most of these. But then I was born in 83

OMG Vetrek i forgot about this!

I had a TI99/4a and w president of a users group. Yes, I had a modem an used BBS systems. Later when I got a PC computer I ran a BBS.

MIDI not only was for music, later down the years, even things like stage lighting and even OBS Studio can be controlled via MIDI.

@epobirs

Ай бұрын

It was also used as a very basic network on the Atari ST line, where it was built-in. This notably lead to Midi Maze, the first networked first person shooter. This was later ported to the Super Nintendo as Faceball 2000, though without support for more than two players in split screen.

Why didn't the ABCDEF keyboards of the Speak and Spell carry over to the larger world? I always thought QWERTY keyboards were designed to slow the user because the machines were slow. You'd think ABCDEF keyboards would have been more popular. The only place I see ABCDEF keyboards is virtually as apps on modern phones.

I expected to see the Seiko TV Watch, the C-64 (which dominated the 80s) and perhaps games like Simon and Merlin and perhaps a vintage battery operated handheld pacman game. It was nice to see some British stuff in the lot, but really - ZX is properly pronounced as ZED EX, not ZEE EX.

One thing you left out was the correct pronunciation of Halley’s comet.

6:35 The Spectrum is responsible for British programmers from that era. The Beeb had almost no sales outside of the schools.

I have to say I am really confused by Halley's Comet in 1986.....I guess I have some serious memory issue at my age as I thought it was more like 1976 as I distinctly remember where we lived when our father was talking about the comet being visible. I was young. in 86 I got married and certainly should have a better memory from then.

I can never _not_ cringe whenever someone says "Zee X Spectrum".

I own two laserdiscs and no laserdisc player. And a beta player but no beta tapes.

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My parents bought a couple of laserdiscs back in the day, with the idea they'd eventually get a player when they came down in price. They never got the player.

A bit odd the emphasis given to home computers that were nearly unknown outside of the UK. I worked in game development in the US and most of my co-workers only knew of the BBC systems because of the import magazines I had around. We had UK distribution for our C-64 games but never heard any requests for licensing a port to BBC or Spectrum by local devs.

I was both a nerd and a pretty well known hooligan back in the eighties, was quite a competent coder back in the day and I started gaming in the 70's and fixed my first computer in the last year of the 70's, in between all of that I worked down my uncles scrapyard and decided school wasn't for me then one thing led to another and the powers that be decided my delinquency could not be tolerated any more so they locked me up til 3 months after my 16th birthday and I did 3 years hard... I was actually in 84 on the telly when UK's Channel 4 did a documentary on how 'orrible I was back then and no one could work me out as I had brains but also a lot o' brawn and a gypsy's one shot punch that saw me barred from the local boxing clubs so I turned my sights on joining one of the Millwall firms and got me jollies that way instead hehe Funny thing was, if any of me mates ever found out back then about my computers and gaming they would have flayed me alive...

Nobody remember the Xerox 8000? No Xerox, No GUI's and I think Mouse, design software and printer integration were firsts as well

Fire your sound editor. The dialog is so low you cant hear it without cranking it up only to be deafened by the bumpers between each item on the list.

Colecovision is the 1960s Intellivision 1980s to 1988 They relaunched it in the 1990s under the name Colourvision but it flopped.

I wanted an apple computer in the 80ies and my parents got me a commodor 64..

DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs today? in 2024? Really? I'm not touching a plastic disc since... I don't even remember: the last time was 10-15 years ago...

What about the Commodore 64 computer? Or the Merlin or Simon electric games or even Electronic Detective??

I would say maybe the apple iie and the Nintendo entertainment system and also the Atari 2600

I miss my Commodore 64

I still have my vectrex, who works very well, i'm tryng to sell it for several years, whit 7 games, and a second controler, but never found a byer. Maybe there's not à lot of nerds in Québec, lol.

You neglected to mention the Vic 20.