[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

N8WQ exwn8jef at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 12:28:33 EDT 2009


> Guitar Hero is a brain dead simple game
I would agree with your analysis! LOL :)

Alan Jones

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Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>> age where we all take for granted the ability to play 30fps, high 
>> color videos on our phones, how many of us "old timers" are there 
>> that will be impressed for long?
>
> You obviously haven't seen what small, trivial things get tons of 
> blog-press on sites like BoingBoing. Someone made a Guitar Hero type 
> game for the C64 and it spread all over. Guitar Hero is a brain dead 
> simple game that a pocket calculator could do. What makes it unique is 
> the sound track (turn off the sound and it's a rather boring game). 
> Even the background graphics aren't cutting edge. The C64 "version" 
> just played SID synth music, so nothing at all like Guitar Hero... But 
> folks thought it was neat and it got mentioned on some pretty big sites.
>
> So things along those lines -- doing something "modern" on old 
> hardware -- are good targets for getting some attention.
>
> Hmmm, I bet I could write a simply Guitar Hero in BASIC ;-)
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