[vcf-midatlantic] Old Video Game Advertisements

[Dave McGuire]

On 8/8/22 14:53, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> I kind of feel the opposite way but two people can look at a painting
>> and have different perspectives.
>> When I brought a bunch of SGIs to VCF and networked them and played
>> BZFLAG and Dogfight, I got flack for that.
>> I kept explaining how things like this were huge at the time, but nope.
>> And if you noticed. I never demoed again... ever..
>> Now I go. I watch, I volunteer and clean up. But I don't really want 
>> to demo.
> 
> 
> Haters! Games push technology! And war, and adulty imagery.

   I didn't say they didn't.  The fact that games push technology says a 
lot about our society. (whether that's good or bad is left as an 
exercise to the reader ;))

   But none of this suggests that it's appropriate to push the notion 
that everything about computing is only about games, because it isn't.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA