Interesting to see a review of an older game in the series. I’d always found it interesting from its steampunk appearance. My only real exposure was the recent PS4 game, which very depressingly checked off some tired anime tropes:
One guy in a house of ladies
Women are all incapable without their big strong male leader
Bizarre plot occurrences like warping to another dimension, with little acknowledgement from the cast
Requisite hot tub misunderstandings scene
There’s some other bits that didn’t make sense to me, but basically it didn’t feel like such a fleshed out world either, even if the characters are meant to be fun.
Can I imagine? Yeah, I lived it. Even Internet browsers used to be text only. My first modem was <1 kbit/s. (For contrast, the last dial-up modem speeds were 56,000 kbit/s, and today speeds are often 1,000,000 kbit/s or more.)
The mouse came before graphical OSes for me, since games used it but games were executed from the command line MS-DOS. Of course DOS was also capable of using a mouse. I didn’t really use an OS GUI until Windows 3.1, which was mostly a novelty at first. That came out in the early '90s. I didn’t have any exposure to Macs until System 7 in the mid-'90s.
My daily driver these days is a MacBook Pro. We’ve come a long way!
It’s impressive how fast our modems are compared to the 1kbit/s one! And yes, we’ve come a long way, and it’s nice to look back at these things sometimes.
This is a personal computer developed by Xerox’s PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and it was first introduced in 1973, at a time when that same Xerox meant only “photocopy”, and IBM was an extremely important PC manufacturer;
Same. Very interested in the topic, but the writing style was extremely off-putting. I made it as far as I could but all the random asides and crossed out “jokes” were a big miss for me.
Nice writeup. I remember seeing an odd looking computer that definitely came with a backpack in the window of a local computer store growing up… unfortunately my memory is a bit to hazy to recall the logo and I was definitely never able to play with it (I asked).
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