Remember when you used to buy a game, put it in, then play it

moogle said:
but expensive :)


Is this a moaning post about how games of today don't work as smoothly?

Am I the only one who doesn't have problems with games on a PC? :D
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Confused Stu said:
And the universal fix for any issue? Unplug cartridge, blow on it, reinsert and all fixed! Worked every time.
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whats up with cartdiges?

how come they had like no loading?

And can they not carry info like a dvd or blu ray? why are they obsolete?
 
I remember when might mates had spectrums... and some other mates had Amstrad CPC464's... so I got the Amstrad CPC6128 (If memory serves correctly)... which had a disk drive and 128k. Even ran 'WOPS' which was a visual operating system :-) Was a fantastic bit of kit. The floppy disks were nigh-on indestrutible, unlike the fragile 5.25" and 3.5" disks available for the PC. I used to buy cack games because it was cheaper than buying blank disks lol. Truly a great machine IMO. Although when the Atari and the Amiga came along.. that ruined it.. they were great.

But I remember having an Oric (similar to Spectrum, but French.. was very good). Loading games was fun.. oh yes.. the electronic noises similar to modems, and waiting f o r e v e r for a game just to fail loading. Not so bad, except for those games that required you to load other parts of the game from the tape. Some classic games though. Dad would type out the games from magazines for me... and they worked :-) One of my fav's was a digger game.
 
I felt like the OP the other day when I installed Skyrim. I had the disk in the drive, yet it persisted on downloading the 6GB from Steam. I had to use a console command to tell it to use the disc instead lol
 
compboyo said:
whats up with cartdiges?

how come they had like no loading?

And can they not carry info like a dvd or blu ray? why are they obsolete?
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Cartridges, while having awesome load times, couldn't compete with the sound quality of games on discs.
 
compboyo said:
whats up with cartdiges?

how come they had like no loading?

And can they not carry info like a dvd or blu ray? why are they obsolete?
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probably due to less data stored on them and they're not totally obsolete (doesn't ds use them?) but cd's were much cheaper to produce.

Mark3h said:
Cartridges, while having awesome load times, couldn't compete with the sound quality of games on discs.
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I liked the sound from the snes and megadrive. Developers/composers create pretty good music/games when forced to optimize everything.
 
well back when they switched to discs it was more expensive, I suppose a cartridge nowadays would be like a usb drive but I think it'd still be more expensive than a bluray disc.

Back then the cd had 650mb of space but the biggest cartridge (on an N64) was 64mb so only 10% space of the disc. Flash/rom needs to be more cheap before it's a better option than disc.
 
Ahhh I remember the days of X-Wing... open box, stick in floppies, install, and then fap yourself senseless over what was at the time a groundbreaking experience.

While manual patching used to be almost a requirement and could be a major hassle at times, high-speed broadband and auto-patching has made the process simpler nowadays. I guess DRM is my only bugbear.

orderoftheflame said:
And a spellchecker to spell install?.
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Correcting an obvious typo = instant and epic nerd fail.
 
moogle said:
they're not totally obsolete (doesn't ds use them?)
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The DS just uses flash memory cards in a bespoke casing doesn't it? They've been pretty obsolete since the mid nineties. The price to manufacture them simply couldn't compete with CDs, especially with the space available. You want to make the best looking most complex game in the nineties? Forget about carts.

I don't think we'll ever see flash memory used on anything but hand held consoles going forward. Digital distribution is the far more obvious choice.



Richdog said:
Correcting an obvious typo = instant and epic nerd fail.
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Done three times on the trot consistently?

Feeling the need to comment on it someone correcting someone else as a joke = high horse nerd fail.
 
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Ahh the good old days of floppies, I swear I still have some massive boxes of them up in the loft....and therein lies the problem. Back then I had maybe 20 games and that filled a few boxes of floppies.

Now I have going on 300 games can you imagine how much money Ikea would have made off me on bookshelf sales if they were all on disc?!?!?!? Or even worse, massive cartridges.
 
I found my ZX Spectrum+ in the attic the other day, can't find the damn tape player though but the games are still there :D

I've also got an Atari (not sure what model, very old black square cartridges it takes though) and an Amiga 500 with a shoe box full of floppies :D
 
gropingmantis said:
Ahh the good old days of floppies, I swear I still have some massive boxes of them up in the loft....and therein lies the problem. Back then I had maybe 20 games and that filled a few boxes of floppies.

Now I have going on 300 games can you imagine how much money Ikea would have made off me on bookshelf sales if they were all on disc?!?!?!? Or even worse, massive cartridges.
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youve got loadsa floppies up in the loft eh? What did you do with their bodies...

bada bing bada boom.

btw what the hell is a cartridge. Guess Ill wiki it. BUt I mean what the hell are they. Cds,dvd, etc are read by lasers which reas data on the disc right? Or if you isntall to hard drive Computer reads data from the hard drives...but what the hell was a crtrdige and how did that work.

When you think about it its really fascianting

From pong to pac man to space invaders to battlefield 3 and skyrim...Really its quite amazing to have such real like environments and physics coming out a monitor to us.
 
Amraam said:
I felt like the OP the other day when I installed Skyrim. I had the disk in the drive, yet it persisted on downloading the 6GB from Steam. I had to use a console command to tell it to use the disc instead lol
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It's sooo frustrating!
I managed it when I got Empire retail - not sure how! I got annoyed and kept clicking cancel and re-inserting the disc etc, eventually it installed from disc but no idea how I did it! :P
Never managed it again since, always an overnight d/l for me.

Didn't know there was a way to force it!
 
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