Enough to have seen and LIVED the transition from Stereo8 to cassette to CD to Mp3. That's why I laugh when I hear about the old good times where sound was "warmer"(?) alias dirt, hissed and crackled.
Since ’tis the season. If my favourite Christmas present is probably a Commodore 64 in 1984 or 1985, then a close second is when this bad boy appeared under wrappers in about 1988. One of the best C64 soundtracks, too! I would gladly buy it on vinyl.
LOL I hung on to a few when mom did her whole purge of 8-tracks and vinyl around 99 or so.. I still have the Who's Tommy (bought that for 0.99 when Gemco went out of business and this new company Target bought a bunch of their old locations), a couple Hendrix ones, Zeppelin 1 and 4. Unfortunately I played Cheap Trick's Heaven Tonight, Aerosmith's Toys In the Attic and all my KISS 8-tracks until they broke in the 80s, would have loved to have those still. Remember when they would start to stretch and wear out and all your albums sounded drunk? Yeah that was GREAT fucking tech, let's get right back to that crap haha.
How about the mythical Ocean loaders by Martin Galway and R.Hubbard? Talk about those music stuck in your head... .
And some of the real MotherLode was the 1950's and 1960's Pulp fiction like Galaxy science fiction, where you find Heinlein,and Asimov, and Poul Andersen, and Philip K. Dick..
Ohh...Asimov himself published later a compilation of the best ones. He called it "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Meaning the first, of course. Really entertaining. One of the first sci-fi books I've read. Man, I feel old... wait, I AM OLD!!!
Dang dude I was talking about this earlier this is game was extemely diffcult. The first one was anyway. Some of these in this video I've never even heard of. I can't beleive that NES actually had 800 freaking games. Everyone ripped eveyone off back then because they didn't have patents and shit. I also disagree with their rankings, from what I remember playing the top 20 looks pretty good though. I played the hell out of Mike Tysons Punchout, Paperboy, Double Dragon, Contra, Rambo, Ducktales, Festers Quest, Metroid, Ninja Gaidan, Jaws, All the Marios, Zelda, Castlevania, Ghouls and Goblins, All the Mega Mans, all the Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elmstreet, Temco Bowl, Every Baseball game known to man, Kung Fu, Skate or Die, The Karate Kid, Excite Bike, RC Pro Am, Rad Racer, Tetris, Dr Mario, Duck Hunt, Track and Field, The Simpsons, Rampage, Batman, Bayou Billy, Bad Dudes, all the Donkey Kong, Double Dribble, Hoops, Little Nemo: Dream Master, Galaga, both Pacman, Maniac Mansion, Cabal, Ice Hockey those were actually some of the best because of the fights LOL, Town and Country Surf, The Goonies II, G.I. Joe, 1942, WWF Wrestlemania, Super Spike Volleyball, Battle Toads, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Arch Rivals, Pinball, Micro Machines, Talespin, Yo Noid, Tiger Heli, American Gladiators, Dragon Spirit, Toobin', Side Pocket Pool, Back To The Future, Home Alone.. Dammn I had A LOT of games. Last edited: Dec 23, 2024
Cupheads, retro 1930's cartoony visuals.. 2 Great Games, and a great 3 season cartoon series on Netflix. I knitted me brudder an invisible sweater wit love.. Last edited: Dec 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
you had to be on drugs to enjoy an 8 track tape, though the tape was wider than a cassette, it was subdivided into 4 stereo track (hence 8 track) so divide a 1/4" tape into 8ths and you can see how much physical space was available for an analog signal. I don't think 8 track ever had dolby, or metal tape etc. and signal to noise was high, it was a contionous loop, so it never stopped, the hub and tape path were pretty shitty and it wore out over time, and became wobbly and the guitar would start to sound like an organ. The best part, the tape would play forever. stick it in the machine, start the party and forget it about, you didn't have to turn it over like a record or a cassette. The bad part, it would play forever, you could drink forever and couldn't use the tape to tell how much time had elapsed. I blame many hangovers on 8-track tapes....
I started my digital journey in 1993 with a Roland SCC-1 GM soundcard and MIDI software called Musicator GS on a 386 PC.
