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

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:12 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > When I brought a bunch of SGIs to VCF and networked them and played
> > BZFLAG and Dogfight, I got flack for that.

> I'm very sorry to hear you had that experience.
> Please contact me off list.  We cannot have
> valuable contributors dissuaded from exhibiting.

Indeed!

> You should have suffered nothing at all for your SGI exhibit.

Absolutely.  I wasn't personally on SGI machines back in the day but
not for lack of desire, it was only lack of funds.  I always loved
seeing them at Siggraph and other shows and *of course* there are
games on powerful workstation platforms.  Games are especially
engaging for the casual audience at a VCF.  Yes, there were "serious"
apps on workstations too, but a lot of them are not something that's
easy to demonstrate in 30-90 seconds.  They were hard to learn then
and they are hard to learn now.  On top of that, in the 80s there were
very few networked multi-machine games so that's special all by
itself.

So, Christian, let me add to the voices here of support and
encouragement.  SGI stuff is quirky and special.  I always appreciate
it when people bring some.

-ethan