Kinda stupid isn't it?
I mean, the only value I can imagine for the original Etch a Sketch nowadays is for people who had it as kids (me, for instance) - nostalgic value - and for artists who can do unbelievable stuff with it considering how limited the knobs are - artistic value.
Now, unless that Freestyle thing, besides being very ugly (for today's standards), is also dirty cheap, it's kinda pointless. #etchasketch
If you think that's cheating, the challenging aspect of this one is drawing something solely consistent of perfect horizontal and vertical lines, making it the exact opposite of the original. #etchasketch
It raises a good question. Are there any gadgets that you guys own that have sentimental value? For me, it's my (still functioning-ish) NES which my brother and I got when we were little.
OMG, when was this a viable format!!! 1.4 MB wouldn't store a hi-res photo from my 10 MP camera! If I lost this I would not even care, if there was ever anything important that could fit in a floppy, it would be on an external HD by now
@cealigbe: There were no digital cameras when this format was in use. There were no external hard disks, besides the ones that were used by minicomputers and mainframes.
Just for reference, the first IBM PC XT sold with a 5MB hard disk. Think about that, and thank your lucky stars.
@dc-united: Our art dep't had a Digi-cam that used a Floppy drive.
Can't remember the megapixel or type (this was many years ago). It seem's really archaic now. Damn I got a 64mb flash drive the year later for storing final projects on, wasn't cheap either. worked out mb for mb the same price as a floppy iirc.
@Nowell: I has a star?: Thanks, I'm sure my boss will really appreciate you keeping me awake all night searching for telnet servers running door games... maybe some BRE and TW2002 as well
@Hack Handyman: No problem :) There's actually a browser based one called like "Legend of the Green Dragon" plays exactly the same. Though I don't know if the infinite gold casino trick works like it used to.
@Nowell: hehehe... I remember having to go through tons of floppy's for bigger games. I think countdown was like 11 disks or something stupid. Did anybody play sopwith.
@eluvatar: evan. evan cares. and probably the care bears as well. they are a very sympathetic bunch of bears, probably the most sympathetic bears on the planet.
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I mean, the only value I can imagine for the original Etch a Sketch nowadays is for people who had it as kids (me, for instance) - nostalgic value - and for artists who can do unbelievable stuff with it considering how limited the knobs are - artistic value.
Now, unless that Freestyle thing, besides being very ugly (for today's standards), is also dirty cheap, it's kinda pointless. #etchasketch
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I just bought this shirt from threadless. Reminds me of this guy.
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Just for reference, the first IBM PC XT sold with a 5MB hard disk. Think about that, and thank your lucky stars.
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Can't remember the megapixel or type (this was many years ago). It seem's really archaic now. Damn I got a 64mb flash drive the year later for storing final projects on, wasn't cheap either. worked out mb for mb the same price as a floppy iirc.
/nostalgia-aaaah
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who has a floppy drive?
who would steal a floppy drive?
who cares?
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Glad I could help.
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