Celebrating Calculator Gaming
Posted by Michael on 21 April 2007, 01:07 GMT
Brady Mayes (DigiTan) has created a video montage of calculator games from the past ten years of TI calculator programming. His creation, featuring the work of 68 programmers, is on YouTube. Even after having seen so many of the games before, watching them combined into one movie is absolutely amazing. It is very rewarding to see the hard work and quality output of so many calculator programmers over the past decade.
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Patrick Prendergast
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Awesome work DigiTan! Some great games in there! (Pleased that i made it in there a couple of times as well *hides* :P).
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21 April 2007, 03:40 GMT
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Wow, or A New Hope
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aladdinslamp
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WWWWOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW. I'm impressed at both the video, and the sheer number of great games that people have put out over the years. Though those talents are now fading... (mutters darkly)
I hope this sort of thing (videoing) continues. Also, I hope the resurgence of the epic programs shall be soon in coming. (See my bio for info on what I'm talking about.)
With this inducement, the newest wave of great works can begin!
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21 April 2007, 04:01 GMT
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lifeiscalc
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Great video, that must have taken forever to make. I have played a lot of those games too.
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21 April 2007, 04:36 GMT
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Joey Adams
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This was an amazing video. I didn't realize there were so many amazing calculator games out there. This is an eye-opener for people who think that calculator programming is a little, extremely obscure hobby that produces little results or that 3D cannot be accomplished on such a small device. That looks like it was a lot of work. Way to go, DigiTan!
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21 April 2007, 05:16 GMT
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Andy Janata
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I'd love to see a list of all the games used, with links to downloads (or at least more information if they haven't been released yet). Several games in there I'd love to have, even though I rarely play games on any of my calculators anymore.
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21 April 2007, 05:46 GMT
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Harrierfalcon
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Argh!!!!! Donut Quest II is on there but not Pegz?!?!?! And there was no animated screenies for Contra 83+....He must not like Basic games very much. I didn't see Bowling on there either, that deserves a mention.
I recognized quite a few of those games, most of the z80 ones.
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21 April 2007, 06:20 GMT
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Ben Cherry
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wow, it's things like this that make me regret that i never finished the ideas that i had. I finally got some new batteries for my 89, and today in class i was scrolling through my var-link and it brought back some memories. i wish i could have finished metroid, but i just have not had time like i did in high school (when i had NO life). Awesome work to everyone who made those games featured, i saw a lot of familiar titles, and a lot by people i used to work with pretty closely.
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21 April 2007, 09:45 GMT
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_DigiTan
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Thanks. I started collecting screens back in Jan. The song was on XM radio at school and I said: "This could go with calc footage!" I'm also editing a full-motion video of James Montelongo's "Realsound" setup in the opener. XD
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21 April 2007, 19:21 GMT
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