[vcf-midatlantic] Old Video Game Advertisements - VCF Exhibiting - negativity

[Douglas Crawford]

Thank you for the heads up.

Folks with similar experiences are welcome to speak up
here if they would like a public awareness of their experience
or contact Jeff Brace off list if they prefer private record.

Again, as an exhibitor and someone with the lifeblood of
mid-Atlantic at heart, I value all the fine work put into
exhibits - which are the lifeblood of the festival and
what makes us special.  We want all the creative juices to
come to bear. Not every exhibit can be a home run, but
everyone brings something to the table.

DC

On 8/8/2022 4:15 PM, Sentrytv wrote:
> This is the main reason why I have not exhibited in the past or possibly not in the future.
> I’ve considered two separate exhibits,
> I put to much consideration into the flack or “peer pressure”.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Sent from:
> My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm very sorry to hear you had that experience.
>> Please contact me off list.  We cannot have
>> valuable contributors dissuaded from exhibiting.
>> We have to stop infighting. I don't want to hear
>> of anyone getting crap for what they exhibit.
>> It is a ton of work to prepare something for public
>> exhibit.  Thank you all who do it year after year.
>>
>> Gaming helped push the tech along in many instances.
>> Sometimes its just the most fun and interesting way
>> to demo hardware. Sometimes it represents innovations
>> in software development.
>> Spacewar on DEC
>> Prince of Persia developed on Apple II.
>> DOOM on NeXT.
>> InfoCom on... everything...  a marvel of the portable text game engine.
>> You should have suffered nothing at all for your SGI exhibit.
>>
>> In the micromputer foundations, 1977, when Jobs and
>> Wozniak brought the Apple I to the Atlantic City Personal Computing Trade Fair, right there adverts bold words it features
>> "computer gaming".
>> http://www.shiro1000.jp/hist/apple/PC76.jpg
>>
>> "Too boot" we even share processor technology even with the game consoles. Computers and consoles are cousins. First damn cousins.
>> So we need to let up a bit on any close minded attitudes there too.
>> There's a little room for all cousins.  Blood relatives.
>>
>>> On 8/8/2022 2:34 PM, Christian Liendo 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.
>>>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 2:19 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic
>>>> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Just to jump in...I think 80s computing is/was fantastic.  What rubs
>>>> me the wrong way is this widespread perception that it was always only
>>>> about games and nothing else.  It disrespects the entire industry, its
>>>> achievements, and its people to reduce the groundbreaking work that
>>>> transformed society to toys for tots.
>>>>
>>>>                -Dave
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>> New Kensington, PA
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