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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

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Somehow I must have overlooked what it was or never heard of it.

The RCA Interactive Disc was a vinyl-based format that was in development though delayed on release for several years during the turmoil of the Jimmy Carter administration, and was an analog stylus approach as opposed to laser, similar to Laserdisc (which I had never seen until the mid 1990s and was surprised I had never heard of even then. Even just the idea that their were cd consoles prior to PS1 were practically unheard of, mostly of which were only capable of performing like regular 16-bit games with the addition of better sound and possibly a slightly less awkward FMV sequence at the beginning.) Most CD rom format of intaractive entertainment still came from the idea of interactive video, well until console gaming caught up with processing potential of graphic design (so things like Resident Evil appeared very unusual in that they used live action performance for the intro video, and not until RE2 did everything get computerized; and yet the intro CGI video of Castlevania Symphony of the Night still looked as bad as early 3DO games from 1993, even though prerendered video such as Toy Story proved you could make things look better even if it was adapted for file limitations in crappy video format.

Capacitance Electronic Disc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitan ... ronic_Disc



The CED movie Many Roads to Murder (technically game?) was a sequel to this one:



It was pretty innovative (but very much a product of the time) and reminds me of early attempts at turning console systems into party games (such as this one: Zhadnost: The People's Party (3DO, 1995) which in an emulator I had to use a controller and the keyboard as a second controller to play, since it can't solo.)



Some earlier attempts at making interactive laserdisc consoles were made in the early 80s that looked similar to their attempt with CED, and somehow I assumed they were the only ones to attempt such tech (which only a few prototypes were ever made, but they had already seen the extremely costly failure of CED.

The creators of Myst, Cyan, had made an Apple computer game in the late 80s which is considered the first CD-rom videogame (that didn't use prerendering or live action video feedback, but it could be argued the early 80s outside of Laserdisc arcade games, could be considered the only legit one and yet because it seems the interaction with the video choice encounters for the CED didn't have data feedback from each sequence they had to be inputed from the manual. It was a bit like what RL Stine was doing with Goosebumps books, where you got to choose the path of the book character, but you were still having to pick from what the encounter was showing.

The "First CD Rom game," The Manhole from 1989 (and it's interesting how the creators accomplished this task, because it was still a novelty using CD from tech.)




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Somehow it never occurred to me that Lord Hanuman sounds very similar to the Chinese legend of Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West, though the story differs quite a bit (it comes from the Ramayana which is one of the most ancient of Vedic literature.) Both stories are old, but Hanuman is quite a bit more ancient, perhaps even as old as the Gilgamesh legends (hairy monkey man, Enkidu.)

Prince Rama as well as a half-monkey woman (so many more questions occur) was praying to the gods and then are blessed by the gods with a bowl of Payasam (sweet rice pudding usually flavored with cardamon and raisins or roasted macadamian?)
https://www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do/m ... anuman.pdf



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I wasn't able to get this game to play with what little I tried doing, but it seems that VirtualBox is an option, as the description has some tips. I'll just pass on it.

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Three Zelda CDI games
https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Philips_C ... es_of_Evil



You can also emulate them (most of the files are duplicates in different languages, but if I were to guess, it might be 200 GB (or close to 600 GB otherwise) to get unique copies; some of the interactive consoles were also being used as demonstration tutorials for companies, so the stuff can range from Zeneca pharmaceuticals to Car companies, to really weird adaptions of game branding that take on a life of their own.

https://archive.org/details/philips_cd-i

Link: The Faces of Evil


Zelda - The Wand of Gamelon


Zelda's Adventure


And

Hotel Mario


Another Mario game was never released, called, 'Super Mario's Wacky Worlds' (a 9 MB file is in that archive.)


Another Mario game called Mario Takes America used footage from nature where Mario explores in animated cut sequences.

It should be mentioned that the CED format made RCA go bankrupt after investing $580 million which followed after a failed computer division sold around 1970, and acquired by GE in the mid 80s, much as Phillips lost close to a billion and seems to have had a similar fate with CD-I.

Some of what tech went into the system had been intended as an option for Nintendo consoles, codeveloped by Sony along with Philips, and since it failed through they were given the option to incorporate the Nintendo characters (much to Nintendo's dismay.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... ideo_games

Mob boss reenactment is an option.

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Paris and Lyon, France in 1896 - Restored Footage

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I'll be going over these (ironically after posting this and only thinking about the CD-I Zelda games because of getting into the topic of CED--Vinyl disc video format--I realized the Wand of Gamalon CD-I game has an official game by Nintendo starring Princess Zelda as the main fighting character, which came out less then a week ago; though it still looks like a bullshit Lego adaptation targeting stupid kids.)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Ni ... 90490.html

The Wind Waker


The sequel (Phantom Hourglass) :


The sequel to that (Spirit Tracks) :


Zelda: Twilight Princess (I played this but it's been so long that I will have to play the video and skip through it just to reiterate what it was.)


Skyward Sword


Breath of the Wild


Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity (based on previous)


And I might need to go over this one (I had both Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons but played neither.)


Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap


The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (revised SNES: Link to the Past)

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This along with American Gladiators (which predated a British version of Gladiators which would continue on until 2000) were something that had a similar tone. I'm not sure any shows exist like this anymore, though recall their was a French TV show that takes place on a former prison (not Château d'If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27If though a new miniseries is based on it.)

Fort Boyard (game show)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173549/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Boyard_(game_show)

Shows like this all kind of ended around 2003.



And strangely a Switch game was released a few years ago that is based around Fort Boyard (though maybe only spiritually connected to the TV show from 20 years before?)

Also, a live-action Zelda movie (which may actually use CGI overlap similar to Avatar) is in the making (though I'm just now looking at this and thinking WTF?)

update: It seems it's a "concept trailer"

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Lionfield vs itsQCP:






Can't see preview to shorts
fixed - F.I.A.T. no more
edit: trying something

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Jack London's opinion of London.



This play has been going on for 70 years?


Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
https://www.agathachristie.com/theatre/the-mousetrap

(Link works but it shows unavailable) 15 SHOCKING Stories Of People Who Left The Amish Community
https://youtu.be/3yI3lBLqRdg

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Driver San Francisco is becoming a bit of a collector item and barely shows up when searching for PC. It tends to get overlooked much like the Watchdog series, and you can tell Ubisoft was really intent on competing with the GTA series (while also hoping such comparisons were not made because it's difficult to compete with.)

I had to check but it still shows in my Ubisoft app (I don't plan on downloading it and trying it again even though I have well over 10 GB available to, and probably only played it for an hour thinking the concept seemed really dumb.) I last played it in 2012 according to what it shows and I may change my mind after posting this.




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