Coloring Ball: Early 80s [Winner Announced!]

[delete} · Mon 04/05/2015 13:12:43

So much to gain from those 4 colors, unbelievable! Comparing today and then, RGB true colors seemed to be a backstep...

The 80's are portrayed for me at most by 5, Joystick and NES by AprilSkies.
E.T. , 1, and Ghostbusters, 8, stand out as iconic films from this decade.

My cheesy Highlander entry was already defeated by awesome WRK during the making...

SinSin · Mon 04/05/2015 15:20:00

Quite the competition this

!!
Lots of awesome entries!

My votes are

1st 5
2nd 13
3rd 9

Kasander · Mon 04/05/2015 16:24:02

Tough choice, so many brilliant entries here (and great trophies, too!). My picks are:

5 -

Now I'm quite sure AprilSkies is in posession of a time machine. Not only is time travel a prominent feature in Tales, but the guy is able to travel back to 1980s to retrieve CGA art like this and post it here on the forums. Where's the time police when you need them? I want that DeLorean that you drive, April!

14 -

I subsribe to Mandle's interpretation of the piece. Pacman as a metaphor for gaming (or pop culture) eating away our lives and destroying the family ties... Now that's darker than all Nightmares of Elm Street combined!

6 -

I could hardly draw without synth music so I really appreciate this piece (and I'm so happy for that synth-revival thing, it feels like 80's are all over again

)

Amy: I wish you had made it! Higlander is one of my favourite films and it's the one I've watched more times than any other (more than a dozen times surely)! Perhaps it's a kind of magic that it still holds up so well... I enjoy it now just as much as I did in the old days, while some of those other 80's gems has lost their sparkle for me, sadly

[delete} · Mon 04/05/2015 17:01:41

@Kasander: Endure, my fellow swordsman!

There will come a time, when we both do an action-adventure MAGS game in the Highlands.
And we'll fearlessly use Queen's copyrighted Who wants to live forever!

Mandle · Mon 04/05/2015 17:17:22

Quote from: Kasander on Mon 04/05/2015 16:24:02
Where's the police when you need them?

Quote from: Kasander on Mon 04/05/2015 16:24:02
I subsribe to Mandle's interpretation of the piece.

I don't subcribe to your point of view...

(I'm not trying to be rude here...I just saw connections in your post that really drew me back again to what I was doing with my piece...Please click the two links if I still look like an asshole...)

Kasander · Mon 04/05/2015 17:52:32

@Amy

Absolutely, my bonny Amélie! And it'll win us The Prize...I mean, AGS awards

I can already feel the Quickening! We'll be like Princes of the Universe

@Mandle
Haha, yes I see what you did there

Spoiler

Well, it was quite a different experience for me as I was still a child in the 80s. I remember life at the other side of the Iron Curtain (Poland, to be specific) through a pink (CGA, EGA)-coloured nostalgia glasses: listening to Queen, Depeche Mode and Modern Talking on the radio,watching cool tv shows, playing war with my miniature toy soldiers, then that memorable day when my dad brought home 8bit Atari XE - so the only apocalyptic scare then was for me when I couldn't win a race in Badlands*. I don't even recall personally those Chernobyl days, which were pretty hectic in Poland (being so close to the border), I only know it from family members' tales. Only later I got interested in the history and got concerned about the nuclear bombs more (btw that was mainly thanks to the original Fallout game). And I saw The Day After, too. I value it immensely, it's one of the absolutely best apocalyptic films I've seen.

*actually those were my later 16-bit ST days, I think. Can't even remember any cold war game from that XE period :/

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Anke · Mon 04/05/2015 18:29:48

Shouldn't voting be the easy thing? Blimey! There are so many great entries! I feel slightly nostalgic right now ...

My votes are:

1
5
6 (can't say no to synth pop)

Jim Reed · Mon 04/05/2015 21:12:51

5
13
1

Mandle · Tue 05/05/2015 02:41:47

Quote from: Kasander on Mon 04/05/2015 17:52:32
@Mandle
Haha, yes I see what you did there
Spoiler
Well, it was quite a different experience for me as I was still a child in the 80s. I remember life at the other side of the Iron Curtain (Poland, to be specific) through a pink (CGA, EGA)-coloured nostalgia glasses: listening to Queen, Depeche Mode and Modern Talking on the radio,watching cool tv shows, playing war with my miniature toy soldiers, then that memorable day when my dad brought home 8bit Atari XE - so the only apocalyptic scare then was for me when I couldn't win a race in Badlands*. I don't even recall personally those Chernobyl days, which were pretty hectic in Poland (being so close to the border), I only know it from family members' tales. Only later I got interested in the history and got concerned about the nuclear bombs more (btw that was mainly thanks to the original Fallout game). And I saw The Day After, too. I value it immensely, it's one of the absolutely best apocalyptic films I've seen.

*actually those were my later 16-bit ST days, I think. Can't even remember any cold war game from that XE period :/
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Kinda off-topic so hiding...

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Wow...absolutely fascinating story. I had no idea about video gaming behind the Iron Curtain in the '80's. I guess I just assumed that people didn't have them. The only person I've known well personally from an Eastern Bloc nation was a refugee from Romania who escaped in the '80's before the coup, and his stories of people lining up for cardboard belts and shoes, and of himself hoarding plastic ball-point pens when he first arrived in Australia thinking they were worth a fortune, stay with me to this day. I guess either Poland had things a little easier than Romania or your family was quite well-off? Or a bit of both?

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Kasander · Tue 05/05/2015 23:33:29

Right, I think we're derailing this awesome thread a bit too much

Let's leave it at that. I'll write you a PM tomorrow... or the day after

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"Gaming behind the Iron Curtain" is a vast theme. I believe it could make its own independent thread (and a long one!). I'm curious myself, how it was for people in other Eastern Bloc countries. I have no idea how hard life was in Romania, but in 80's Poland we were familiar with ball point pens (more or less!) and 8-bit computers were not uncommon. We've even had computer magazines as early (or as late, depending on your point of view;)) as in 1985 (the most popular one circulated around +50k copies and it continually grew in popularity). And no, my family wasn't that well-off, but my dad's quest for the Holy Atari actually makes some story

I'll write you PM!

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AnasAbdin · Thu 07/05/2015 13:57:06

Ladies and gentle people

voting stops at midnight

AnasAbdin · Fri 08/05/2015 06:07:56

>>> WINNER ANNOUNCED! <<<

	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom]	by WRK
	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif[/imgzoom]	by Sinsin
	[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/AAy39dD.png[/imgzoom]	by AprilSkies

Congratulations AprilSkies! You won this CGA coloring ball!
Thanks to every amazing participant in this round! And thanks for all voters too! I'm glad that I couldn't vote since it was a very hard decision

See you in the next Coloring Ball by AprilSkies!

Mandle · Fri 08/05/2015 07:08:53

Congratulations to the very deserving winners!!! Can't wait for the next one!

Tabata · Fri 08/05/2015 11:59:54

YAY! Congratz to our winners!

With such a lot of good entries it was tough to catch a trophy - wear it with pride - you three really deserve it!

Thank you Anas for hosting such an entertaining challenge.

GreenBeams · Fri 08/05/2015 20:31:01

Epic tourney with fabulous entries. Well done ot the winners and everyone entered!

AprilSkies · Sat 09/05/2015 12:29:57

Wow!!! Thanks a lot guys and gals! <3

What a wondeful comp! Very exciting and challanging.
Never saw so many great entries in one single col-ball-comp!

I'll soon come up with a new comp

SinSin · Sat 09/05/2015 15:03:43

Woooo

. 2nd
Thanks for the trophy Ã°Å¸Ââ€

Good hustle once again people..
Great entries.. and what a winning piece!!

Good luck April !!