LOL! Hah! Even plumber boy knew which video game company had the superior system, & the better mascot, who starred in the better games bank in the early 90s. And it wasn’t his company, it wasn’t him, & it wasn’t his games. Genesis & Sonic ftw, baby! 😎
Not sure what happened but it was in 1991 when we bought two towers DX/2 66 both with screens and Tseng labs SVGA card at 1,100 DM each, including DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 in Germany (with international Qwerty keyboard though). No soundcards in them I should add.
I don't think so. Everybody learned to use a computer so all the computer-like appliances died. People don't use TVs other than to play games and watch video. When you want to look at an encyclopedia, buy something, or do home banking, everybody gets on a computer or a smartphone. Even little kids have computer laptops (Chromebooks), something that would be way too expensive in the 1990s.
When Bushnell is talking about computer chips being in everything, he’s right. He’s also right about the dangers of it being too complex. My thermostat has a computer chip in it. There’s all sorts of wonky things like programming schedules, & times of day for it to go off & on. And what days you want what temperature programmed it to have. And all these nifty little touch screen buttons. Thing is I JUST WANT TO SET THE DARN TEMPERATURE & I can barely figure out how to do it. I only know I did it right if it eventually goes on or not. I hate it. I hate that computerized thing to death. I miss my old thermostat: Heat. Cool. Off. Dial temperature setting control. So simple & easy. No wondering if I did it right, because if the wonderful simplicity of it. No freezing my butt off in the winter thinking “did I program the heater correctly, or is is programmed to start going on in two weeks from now on Tuesday at 5 o’clock?” My car’s dashboard controls have the same problem. I car’s touchscreen as well. No I don’t want to synchronize a Bluetooth or get GPS directions in to the nearest donut shop given to me in Cambodian. Just put the stinkin radio on!
@@cauldronofstardust4113 Bruh, you ain't even wrong. TVs are the worst suspects. Used to be you adjusted the tint and maybe the vertical position. Now you gotta worry about cool vs warm tones, separate color and tint settings, what apps your TV supports (if you don't use a Fire stick or Chromecast), whether your TV works with your digital antenna that always seems to cut audio at the slightest interference, backlight separate from the brightness, and so on. Oh, and don't forget to turn on game mode so you play that console you spent two hours setting up without wondering why it takes a full second after you hit the button. Oh, hope you got the right HDMI cable.
@16:20 “...the Powenote Laptop is neither a portable computer, nor a pocket type personal organizer, but a hybrid.” Ah yes, I understand. So its an El Camino. A spork. A 1970s era AstroTurf multipurpose sports stadium. Boxer-brief underpants. A misguided fusion of 2 different things with a naive belief that you’ll be getting the best aspects of both together in one, but instead getting nothing but 100% absolute fail. I’m sure this thing will do well🙄
Interestingly, the CDTV was nothing more than a repackaged Amiga 500 still banking on ancient OCS/ECS technology with limited colours and rather lagging behind low resolution compared to SVGA. That same year we bought two towers DX/2 66 with Tseng labs SVGA complete with screens, each at 1,100 DM. Rudementary sound on board though. But still, Commodore times were clearly over as Amiga based tech was so ancient by then.
It didn't fool anyone to realize you were far better off to get a computer for what it sold for, and a PC computer at that. What's worse is how the introduction of this machine alienated the existing Amiga computer users as they felt neglected like a bastard child. For example, the CD-ROM was never offered as a peripheral for the Amiga computer lineup. An absolute insult and slap in the face to the users who supported Commodore. By 1992 many ended up leaving the platform for the far more affordable PC lineup that blew away the 1985 spec heritage the machine still clinged tightly to.
21:19 that is the one since I was looking for this prototype found by the Hidden Palace Team. Also Side-Note at 21:07, that was a different point of development that never seen at CES 1991.
Bushnell said Atari didn’t go under because ET the video game flopped. He said they couldn’t get people, to buy a new Atari system. As you know, the trick is to make ever more complicated games the old system can’t handle. Which in turn forces one to buy the latest, albeit more powerful system. Gimmicky as hell.
I don't recall laptops back then getting 6-8 hours of usage, at least not any laptop that had a backlight on it, which is essentially a lightbulb being left on.
I have always wanted to attend the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) just to see what electronics gadgets were going to be coming out over the next number of months. However I have never attended the CES at all so I feel like I have been denied such amazing wonders.
I'm curious who was in charge in IBM in late 80s early 90s because saw everything they made then was a failure. Ps2,Ps1,Os2, and letting Microsoft develop Windows 3(Win16) and Windows NT(Win32/OS3) using their financial technical support
But also Intel to develop Pentium and dominate while IBM/Motorola/Apple was left 1 year behind. This Wintel thing in meantime killed Atari,Amiga,almost Apple, and IBM dominance except for laptops. Because these were expensive business machines. And they were good at expensive machines
@Moogle Midgar and they released a smaller model called the PSOne, either way, its the PS1. It seems that you cant accept a comment from anyone, if you get triggered about something small like this. I didn't know it was a hate or federal crime to abbreviate something. You must be someone who says the Federal Bureau of Investigation, instead of the FBI.
All these products seem like they were way ahead of their time. I’m absolutely stunned on how these products seem like they never got the attention they needed.
It's the cost! The CDTV sold for $1000, equivalent to $1875 today. With that in mind, you can see why it was a failure. This was true most of the other gadgets. Another example: Photo CD cost $3 an image to scan, plus $400 for the player.
It took a few extra years before CD-ROM became mainstream in the PC world but it eventually shook the industry up to free itself from floppy distribution limitations, plus created synergy with 16 bit sound cards and eventually 3D graphics in the later 90s. 1991 was a little too early for all this to unfold.
@6:38 "we really didn't want to build a computer". Yes, Commodore, you clearly didn't care to build a next generation computer (AA chipset in particular) to compete in the market at this point in time and instead recycled 1985 technology with a CDROM drive (which wasn't even available to the Amiga as a peripheral - ridiculous) and tried to fool people this was going to be the hottest new gatchet to get. It didn't work, and all that wasted money spiraled the company towards bankruptcy not long after.
