Depictions Of Videogames In The Media

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

This, according to Eastenders, was what a videogame looked like in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7gPKRhSDs
http://a.imageshack.us/img690/6885/eastgame.png

I love how Phil Mitchell and his creepy son are playing it as if it's a two-player fighting game, when there's clearly only ever one player character on screen.

You don't handwrite code before you type it in?

― smash sbros (Will M.), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:10 AM (2 days ago)

pshaw! Only n00bs handwrite their code. Real programmers use punch cards and punch the holes with their teeth.

(i have pages and pages of handwritten z80 assembly... and i'm not alone:

http://sandywhite.co.uk/fun/ants/AAsource.htm

but that's real code, not just random html)

that fake game has kind of awesome art

xp Guess I was spoilt by the BBC Basic's built in assembler.

SVU is a hall of famer at hilarious video game depictions, between the hooker-beating GTA rip Tenacity (which totally hooked Fringe's Lincoln Lee) and the MMO obsessed South Korean parents becoming US trailer dwellers addicted to something that looked like a single-screen Dragon's Lair. Oh and that way early episode where Kragan brags to a murderous preteen baout how he made it all the way to level 14 and bagged himself a Gorgon.

ok, heads up for uk people

CH4 this saturday @ 21:00
Charlie Brooker - How Video Games Changed The World
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/charlie-brooker-videogames-changed-the-world

followed @ 23:05 by
Indie Game: The Movie
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/indie-game-the-movie

I wonder how much of this is going to be new stuff, as opposed to a retread of Gameswipe plus Minecraft plus GTAV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGD5suu90I

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/11/youre-like-a-dog-at-the-controls-of-a-helicopter-charlie-brooker-tries-and-fails-to-teach-newsreader-jon-snow-about-videogames/

Seems like the bulk of the programme is going to be a chronological order countdown of twenty influential games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAIpVxL3HU
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/29/charlie-brooker-video-game-television

holy crap, rab florence got mad skinny. so was this any good?

I enjoyed it but it's one of those things where you could spend days arguing about the omissions. talking heads generally good. first time I'd heard Jeff Minter talk. thought the #1 entry was a bit fatuous though

I forgot this came out.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/20/grand-theft-auto-5-adult-gamers

I like this too

i keep forgetting this thread.

Dead Pixels, the channel 4 (UK) thing has large chunks of people grinding in a mmorpg. last episode had three of them punching a mammoth to death.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4419540/?ref_=ttep_ep14

there's a whole gamergate episode of SVU. lots of acronyms being explained. and tutuola is a massive gamer, despite never having mentioned it ever before.

"Trivia: This episode holds the record for the lowest rated episode for the whole series."

iirc that was the one that had a blatant Anita Sarkeesian stand in, hoop earrings and all. never did see it

"Burger Boss" in Bob's Burgers

looks to be pretty fleshed out with proper 8-bit sprites and multiple themed levels (city rooftops, icy caves...)