Monochrome graphics is ancient technology to us. We are the future, we are the one.
Finally and after years of dedication in our labs, we finally introduce the seed of success:
(http://i.imgur.com/bvn9rRw.png)
CGA graphics baby! Yes! Those are colors you are observing with your eyes!
Your options are unlimited now!
Let your imagination take you to other realms and places you didn't dare to go to in the world of black and white.
Show us your talents by filling the following shape with anything that scream 80s
(http://i.imgur.com/lYvtQSy.png)
Rules:
You can rotate the shape 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
You can flip the shape horizontally or vertically.
You can color the outline of the shape as you like.
You cannot scale the shape. But using imagezoom is good practice.
The shape and the outline MUST only be colored using the four colors in the following palette:
(http://i.imgur.com/AGKAG1M.png)
Trophies: (1st 2nd 3rd)
(http://i.imgur.com/DYvZ3du.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/FNcC5D3.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/dNQmRzi.gif)
Submissions deadline: May 1st 2015 1981
>>> WINNER ANNOUNCED! <<<
(http://i.imgur.com/dNQmRzi.gif) | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom] | by WRK |
(http://i.imgur.com/FNcC5D3.gif) | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif[/imgzoom] | by Sinsin |
(http://i.imgur.com/DYvZ3du.gif) | [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 8-0 See you in the next Coloring Ball by AprilSkies!
Hello????? Is it the pallette? I even chose a large shape to give space for gradients and cool effects :~(
I think it's a great topic and I already have an idea, but sadly no time at the moment. Maybe next weekend ;)
WHAT A GREAT COMP!
I hope to find time very soon! :D :cheesy:
Yay :-D I will extend the deadline if needed 8-)
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Tue 21/04/2015 15:13:17
Hello????? Is it the pallette? I even chose a large shape to give space for gradients and cool effects :~(
I don't know how to use gradients in the expected way to achieve the '80's look when this technical advance came out.
I know what it looks like. But I don't know how to do it with modern day graphics tools (GIMP)...
I don't know if this is what is holding back entrants. But this is what is holding me back...
Mandle you don't have to use gradients! It was a suggestion only to stir things up :-[ check out the pod in the center of this SQ ]|[ background or even google cga games to get an idea of how simple this can be 8-)
(http://www.welovedosgames.net/images/images/sciv_002.png)
Now I really wanna see an entry from you! (laugh)
there are at least 80 s in this!
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/fW45hkQ.png[/imgzoom]
oh yeah, it also screams 80 s!
Spoiler
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/JIvzXPn.gif[/imgzoom]
I should turn it around and get some zzzz 8-)
@Madle: Although this tutorial is for Photoshop and involves
some weird layer options, maybe it will help you:
http://8088mph.blogspot.com/2013/10/using-photoshop-as-cga-bitmap-paint.html
Also, I would just search for cga artworks (games, demoscene)
and study them very close, pixel by pixel to find out different
gradient patterns and what effect they create (edit: as AnasAbdin said earlier).
Pretty much came up empty of ideas on this shape with color limitations. Decided I'd just get even:
[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/anasTry2_zpsvriztrdk.png[/imgzoom]
It was interesting to look at some of the CGA images, however!
My my! selmiak your animated shape is awesome. It is indeed screaming 80s 8-0
jwalt I spelled my drink when I saw your shape! I like it :P but if you want it to be part of this competition make sure you get rid of these few transparent pixels outside of the palette's limit.
Thank you WRK for the tutorial, but guys seriously this is supposed to be fun after all! Now you made me wish I never used the word gradient :-\ Tell you what? Fill the shape with as much colors as you want. Shade and do whatever you do. Then decide which colors from the palette fit best. If you want to melt two colors together was the simple chess board method :P If you want more shades simply check the CGA banner in the first post in this thread!
Putting in mind that you can always draw stuff with 4 colors and no shading at all!
Good luck 8-)
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Wed 22/04/2015 14:42:39
jwalt I spelled my drink when I saw your shape! I like it :P but if you want it to be part of this competition make sure you get rid of these few transparent pixels outside of the palette's limit.
Transparent pixels outside the palette's limit... Looks like I wound up on the wrong side of my revenge. ;-)
Edit:
Okay, I found and fixed three pixels outside the color palette. If there are more, it's okay with me to disqualify the entry. I'm having some problems uploading images at the moment, and it's not likely to change in the near future.
[imgzoom]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o756/jwalt10705/anasTry3_zpsxe9drxll.png[/imgzoom]
This reminded me of my 5.25 disk notch puncher from Electronics Boutique so I pulled it out from the deep recesses of my old IT stuff box, and there is only a passing resemblance...I think seeing CGA and those 3.5 floppies implanted the idea in my head or something.
jwalt no one is being disqualified :-D you're in.
kconan... wonderful find 8-)
I fixed a few pixels from jwalt's entry
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/THx2GEE.png[/imgzoom]
Here's my entry. Hopefully it's sufficiently 80's or something.
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/rVwwuqa.png[/imgzoom]
Great entry fred!
is it an 80s stereo cassette player with a huge pause button? (laugh)
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Thu 23/04/2015 13:26:07
Great entry fred!
is it an 80s stereo cassette player with a huge pause button? (laugh)
To be completely honest with you. I don't know anymore. The more I look at it the weirder it looks, so I'll just call it art and let people come to their own conclusions.
My entry :
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[imgzoom]https://41.media.tumblr.com/722748d3ea7cf2670dee8ac23126fa5c/tumblr_nn9m5oInoT1tsfksfo1_400.png[/imgzoom]
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That's amazing!
I'm always amazed to see what you guys come up with! (nod)
I'm working on something too... but am not sure I'll have the patience to get it looking as good as that! (wtf)
I really, really can't believe, that I'm doing this. Lurking is so much easier. ;)
But this is such a great theme. I love the 80s. (The music and the films, that is. Not the fashion. Definitely not the fashon. It was awful.)
Since I can't draw anything beside geometric shapes, it's not exactley creative. But it does scream shameless ripp-off 80s. Or arcade, at least. 8-)
Here goes nothing:
(http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150423/fpi9crml.png)
Quote from: Anke on Thu 23/04/2015 17:57:08
...it's not exactly creative.
I hope you are kidding, as that entry is very creative.
Loosely based on a real conversation from the 1980s:
Me: Broke my new joystick playing Track and Field.
Adam: Whatcha got? Gravis, Atari, Epyx?
Me: JoyPro Radical To-The-Max Edition. Snapped off the top handle from the base in a clean break, and some of the cheap paint job came with it.
Adam: You get what you pay for. Anyway, I'm off to watch Cosby.
Me: Cool! I love that show!
(http://www.boltactiongame.com/JoyPro.png)
One of the things that always pops in my mind when I think of the 80s:
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/kl1N8d5.gif[/imgzoom]
Ahhhh geeezzz... now I need to think of something else for the round shape. :~(
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Thu 23/04/2015 20:52:54
Ahhhh geeezzz... now I need to think of something else for the round shape. :~(
That's sad to hear :( I actually tried to draw a disco ball at first, but failed.
Oh, it's not your shape Hobo. No worries there. :)
It's the Pacman by Anke on the top of the page. (laugh)
Quote from: Cassiebsg on Thu 23/04/2015 21:22:23
Oh, it's not your shape Hobo. No worries there. :)
It's the Pacman by Anke on the top of the page. (laugh)
I didn't actually think of pacman (and still no inspiration) but the moment I saw it I thought "Oh yeeeeaaaahhh...I wonder why it took so long for the circle to become pacman." It seems so obvious in hindsight. But sometimes it takes genius to see the obvious I guess...
So chin-up Cassie: I just called you a genius (and Anke of course)...
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom]
Omg get busy for 12 hours and Boom! 5 awesome entries 8-0
Wow!
Monsieur OUXX your shape is amazing. It seems a pixel has slipped out but there is no problem as long as it's outside the shape :P
Anke I love your idea. It is screaming 80s games! I found a few pixels out of the palette. I can fix that no worries.
kconan your idea is cool 8-) But it seems you misinterpreted the rotation rule:
You can rotate the shape 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
so could you please do that? ;)
Hobo your animation literally screams 80s with music! I love it, few pixels out of palette but I'll fix it no worries.
Cassiebsg who said there could be only one Pacman? 8-)
Mandle I'm still waiting (roll)
and finally WRK...
oh WRK.. please make this a game.
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 24/04/2015 07:15:24
Mandle I'm still waiting (roll)
...as am I my friend....as am I...
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 24/04/2015 07:15:24
few pixels out of palette but I'll fix it no worries.
Yes, it seems that converting to gif added another black for some reason, I took care of it.
Oh for god's sake, WRK, how do you manage to introduce warm lighting and cold lighting with ONLY 2 FUCKING COLORS? Can't you be NORMAL for once? 8-0 ;-D 8-0 ;-D
I had so much fun making my entry for this comp!
Thanks Anas! The theme is so cool!!!!
here's my entry:
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/UKMDdNa.png[/imgzoom]
(http://i.imgur.com/4R0cO1K.png)
Also guys, SO GREAT ENTRIES!!!!
WRK: I agree with monsieurOUXX: HOW YOU MANAGED IT!!!! great job!
AprilSkies amazing entry!
MY INSPIRATION CAME AT LAST!!!
What screamed the '80's for me the most it seems was the Cold War and the threat of global nuclear destruction:
[imgzoom]http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c201/Mandle/CCCP-USA02_zpsqmwsb6ne.png[/imgzoom]
As a teenager in the '80's I grew up with the constant fear that nuclear war would break out at any moment and we could only hope that the Russians love their children too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs)...
I'm also glad that my inspiration did not come the day after (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA) this competition deadline ended...
I won't tell you how many hours I pushed pixels around in this shape. :-[
Even I know the rules for pixel art I never used such a small colour palette. So I first had to look for some references and studied them.
Short time after starting I wasn't sure if I can finish this piece at all because - regardless of the quality of the result - Iooking at the zoomed version gave me the feeling of my eyes going to bleed :shocked:
Well, but here we go - limited colour palette and shape should be okay (since GIMP took care of it :grin: ) and maybe there's even a little chance that someone recognizes, what game the scene is from that I took for reference - even I needed to adapt it a bit to fit in the shape.
[imgzoom]http://fs2.directupload.net/images/user/150424/u6rxomwn.gif[/imgzoom]
Mandle you did it! And a very creative one too 8-)
Tabata... I got goosebumps when I saw your name in the forum 8-0 I was so looking for your entry!
It.Was.Worth.It 8-0
You made a sky, bushes, stars, stones and stairs (metal?), fire and light effect on wall... and people all in 4 colors!
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 24/04/2015 07:15:24
kconan your idea is cool 8-) But it seems you misinterpreted the rotation rule:
You can rotate the shape 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
Oops, my fault. I'd rather not go through the trouble and prefer the broken joystick at that angle, so let's call it an exhibition entry that can't be voted on.
And after seeing the latest entries, I'm feeling less competitive anyway. 8-)
This is one of the most exciting COL-BALL comp I entered tho!
I love all the entries!
Quote from: kconan on Fri 24/04/2015 16:52:52
And after seeing the latest entries, I'm feeling less competitive anyway. 8-)
not acceptable >:(
if you won't fix the rotation, I will :P
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Fri 24/04/2015 17:07:49
if you won't fix the rotation, I will :P
Go for it. :P
Preferably rotate it into something like AprilSkies's amazing joystick/gamepad combo.
Quote from: kconan on Fri 24/04/2015 23:54:40
Go for it. :P
Preferably rotate it into something like AprilSkies's amazing joystick/gamepad combo.
Would you like wine with that? :P
Here's the rotation, I filled the rotated shape into the original shape without altering or redrawing anything. It is a valid entry by kconan unless he says otherwise (roll)
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gjvmRzG.png[/imgzoom]
I think you may have it upsidedown actually...
Quote from: kconan on Fri 24/04/2015 23:54:40
Preferably rotate it into something like AprilSkies's amazing joystick/gamepad combo.
:)
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Sat 25/04/2015 10:26:06
Quote from: kconan on Fri 24/04/2015 23:54:40
Preferably rotate it into something like AprilSkies's amazing joystick/gamepad combo.
:)
I think he meant rotate it so it somehow changes to look like AprilSkies' entry rather than the actual orientation. It was a joke I'm thinking ;)
Oh :-[
Well it is a lovely sprite in any rotation ;-D
Got something cooking, hopefully be ready by deadline (damn you work)
Very nice entries so far :-D
Edit All of a sudden I love CGA
Quote from: Mandle on Sat 25/04/2015 10:40:39
I think he meant rotate it so it somehow changes to look like AprilSkies' entry rather than the actual orientation. It was a joke I'm thinking ;)
Yep, was joking. Anyway, there should be more competitions using the CGA palette...Brings me back to the old days.
Quote from: Sinsin on Sat 25/04/2015 11:50:55
Got something cooking
mmmmm.. nice smell coming from your kitchen window (laugh)
Okay, here's my sucky shape (filling). :-D
[IMGzoom]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/Cassiebsg/Misc/cgashape.png[/IMGzoom]
Great entry Cassiebsg! The pattern on the (carpet?) is definitely screaming 80s :-D
Just to remind everyone that the deadline is May 1st :)
May I present my tribute to ET.;-D
(http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif)
Although the gif seems to have knackered the colours up slightly so
heres the unanimated version
(http://i.imgur.com/KIF7orp.png)
WOW!!! These entries and this contest just keep getting more and more exciting!!!
Wow sinsin, your entry is very very good.
Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Mon 27/04/2015 14:30:42
Wow sinsin, your entry is very very good.
indeed ;-D
Quote from: Mandle on Mon 27/04/2015 12:50:59
WOW!!! These entries and this contest just keep getting more and more exciting!!!
:-D
awesome Sinsin! I checked your gif and it is perfectly using 4 colors even though the magenta is little slightly different due to giffing.. it passes.
Quote from: AnasAbdin on Mon 27/04/2015 14:50:42
Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Mon 27/04/2015 14:30:42
Wow sinsin, your entry is very very good.
indeed ;-D
Quote from: Mandle on Mon 27/04/2015 12:50:59
WOW!!! These entries and this contest just keep getting more and more exciting!!!
:-D
awesome Sinsin! I checked your gif and it is perfectly using 4 colors even though the magenta is little slightly different due to giffing.. it passes.
Quote from: Monsieur OUXX on Mon 27/04/2015 14:30:42
Wow sinsin, your entry is very very good.
Thanks people had a really bad day and this made me smile a great deal!! :D
Hey I hadn't seen AprilSkies and Tabata's entries but they're fucking cool too!
Monsieur OUXX they're awesome indeed. I also gasped when I saw your great entry too 8-0
So. Many. Lovelies!!!!
Last call! Tomorrow is the deadline (roll)
okay then, I'll enter another one.
Another 80s movie in animated 4 CGA colors for your viewing pleasure. This contest turned out so fantastic I couldn't just enter a mediocre wordplay entry that made every participant think 'I can do better than that!' :-D
[imgzoom]http://selmiak.bplaced.net/stuff/gb.gif[/imgzoom]
selmiak never fails to deliver awesomeness in quality and quantity!
VOTING TIME
Voting is due by May 8th 2015 1982!
Please feel free to vote for your favorite three entries by selecting the numbers on the top of the desired shapes:
1 | 2 | 3 |
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/LVi9rWa.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/JIvzXPn.gif[/imgzoom] |
4 | 5 | 6 |
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/AVIBrXf.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/AAy39dD.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/kl1N8d5.gif[/imgzoom] |
7 | 8 | 9 |
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/ukldY96.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://selmiak.bplaced.net/stuff/gb.gif[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/tLFkoEt.gif[/imgzoom] |
10 | 11 | 12 |
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gjvmRzG.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/jshxcIF.png[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/rVwwuqa.png[/imgzoom] |
13 | 14 | |
[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom] | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/PQNk5ga.png[/imgzoom] | |
Again: Voting is due by May 8th 2015 1982! Good luck everyone!
Imma vote 5, 8, and 13. But these are all SICK in the best way possible :=
First: 5
Second: 13
Third: 6
Was tough to choose...Lots of entries, maybe a record?
First: 14 (The underlying historical/social commentary of video games just eating up your living room (as in invading your domestic/family structure) in the '80's sold me on this brilliant piece...Said commentary intentional or otherwise...)
Second: 13 (Seriously...how the hell does he do it every single freakin' time???)
Third: 5 (See above comment...)
The entries are so great that, everything I'm going to vote will be injust!
anyhow:
1
9
13
There are definitely too much entries that deserve to get voted - phew - :undecided:
First: 1
Second: 5
Third: 13
I can't remember to have seen such a lot of entries for a long time.
An amazing challenge â€" congratz Mister Abdin - well done (nod)
So many great 4 color entries, it is really tough to chose only three. All 14 entries deserve to win. here goes nothing:
first: 5
second: 13
third: 9
9
13
7
1st 6
2nd 9
3rd 13
This really was an interesting competition! Amazing stuff.
Hello everyone!
I never voted before or participated, alwyes looking from the side - wish i could participate in this so inspiring competition but missed it.
my votes are - 1,9,13.
:)
A lot of great entires! My votes:
1st: 1
2nd: 5
3rd: 13
1
5
13
I thought about entering this competition but just couldn't come up with anything good. You guys truly amazed me with these creative and beautiful entries.
/e Takes a bow to all the artists.
1st 1
2nd 9
3rd 5
What a sweet collection of pictures. Good work everyone.
My top three are 1, 5 and 9.
1
5
13
13
9
1
Eye candy all of them!
But if one must chose: 1, 5 & 9
I'm very impressed by everyone!
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...
(http://i2.minus.com/ifI0Lm3c3m7Me.png)
Quite the competition this ;-D !!
Lots of awesome entries! 8-0
My votes are
1st 5
2nd 13
3rd 9
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 :)
@Kasander: Endure, my fellow swordsman! (http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/images/smilies/sword_iron.png)
(http://i1.minus.com/i0E51tP5uh79X.png)
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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytxj3JFcQZE)!
Quote from: Kasander on Mon 04/05/2015 16:24:02
Where's the police (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs)
(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...)
@Amy
:D 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGMGwWWUkII) ;)
@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 :/
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)
5
13
1
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 :/
Kinda off-topic so hiding...
Spoiler
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?
Right, I think we're derailing this awesome thread a bit too much :D Let's leave it at that. I'll write you a PM tomorrow... or the day after ;)
Spoiler
"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!
Ladies and gentle people :-D voting stops at midnight 8-0
>>> WINNER ANNOUNCED! <<<
(http://i.imgur.com/dNQmRzi.gif) | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WR5WxEn.gif[/imgzoom] | by WRK |
(http://i.imgur.com/FNcC5D3.gif) | [imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/gsPy17Z.gif[/imgzoom] | by Sinsin |
(http://i.imgur.com/DYvZ3du.gif) | [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 8-0 See you in the next Coloring Ball by AprilSkies!
Congratulations to the very deserving winners!!! Can't wait for the next one!
YAY! Congratz to our winners!
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With such a lot of good entries it was tough to catch a trophy - wear it with pride - you three really deserve it! (nod)
Thank you Anas for hosting such an entertaining challenge.
Epic tourney with fabulous entries. Well done ot the winners and everyone entered!
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 ;-D
Woooo :-D. 2nd
Thanks for the trophy ðŸÂâ€
Good hustle once again people..
Great entries.. and what a winning piece!!
Good luck April !!