Okay, this made me giggle like a school girl. It's an anti-software-piracy ad, circa 1992, complete with old school rapping, Carmen Sandiago and Oregon Trail screen shots, and the running man.
Bam! (http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=723)
I'll never pirate again.
not new to me, but still worthy of a giggle
I can't believe I watched that whole thing...I also can't believe that rap has become so popular...eck
I couldn't belive how long that rap actually was.
And then he came back.
And then he came back again.
MAKE HIM STOP!
Yeah it was funny to watch, and i thought that rap had a catchy beat to it. But that film was cheesy as hell though.
BG :)
Ah, hilarious. Brings me back to when my brothers blasted their Vanilla Ice tapes on their boomboxes and they were COOL.
Cracks me up!
I remember hearing that way back then.
I never really watched it though 'cause it was usually on the TV in the background as I was pirating Space Quest III and elFish and Alone in the Dark ...
They showed it on Unscrewed (TechTV late-night) a few weeks back.
Worth a good laugh.
Granted, he's no fiddy-cent, but he's aiiiight.
Since the Rapper said Don't Copy that Floppy, i guess its okay to copy to a CD-Rom. I don't think he'll mind. But if i do, he'll probably show up at my doorstep singing that crappy song.
The black man in a dubious suit provided quite a lengthy argument.
He was very tedious, which nicely contrasted with the supposedly catchy tune.
What I liked the most is the fact that for the first time in history government has to ask to be honorable and morally upright because itt has absolutely no control over what you do with data.
Which is nice.
(16MB, 10 mÃn)
Ha ha ha!!! More like 16mb, fuck you! Is there any way I can download it? Because I'm not having it load in an IE window for the next three hours.
Right-click; save target as. (http://old.hugi.is/fyndnar/dctf-1.wmv)
Really. Put some effort into your obtaining of cheesy 80s/early 90s video-game industry propaganda!
And while we're at it. (http://www.evilsponge.com/zelda/z3dance.wmv)
What amazes me most is how they made a 16 MB video fit on a single floppy disk. They must have had a great compression algorithm they hid from the public. :)
someone should really send this to those gits who stole the half-life2 code, imagine what a difference it would make!
yeh rite
-a chicken
Haha, this is great :D
How was it screened originally? It's way too long for a TV commercial, so when were people subjected to watching it?
lol, that was really funny!
I hope that never happens to my computer! Strange man rapping at me about copy protection... very freaky! :D
Takara.
Girl: I wanna be a programmer someday, and I don't wanna work if I can't get the green.
Boy: If they have enough money to get a guy to do a 10 minute rap on anti-theft then they more than enough money for me to make one copy.
Girl:But theft is wrong..
Boy: *Stab Girl in throat*
Girl:But I don't understand.. *cough*
Boy: No one understands me, I'm the wind, baby, the wind!
*Make out scene*
I wonder if they ever though that the reason some of those games failed was because no one wants to play tetris in space or play with a chick in a red overcoat ( though I wouldn't mind doing that)
Is it just me, or has anyone else seen that girl in commercials nowadays? It might just be a lady that looks like her...
I think that it was shown in schools to kids. I know I had to watch similar things when I was in elementary and middle school.
I don't know, but she looks a bit like one of the teachers in Boston Public (http://www.fox.com/bostonpublic/faculty/index.htm?n=3) (The fifth from the left), maybe it' sjust me.
Whoever was playing Tetris for that video was really bad.....
oh, and, the song didn't convert me from copying and violating laws, his dancing did.
Thank God that doesn't pop up on my computer everytime I want to copy a folder of mine onto a disk or something.
Quote from: Scummbuddy on Mon 09/02/2004 07:27:55Thank God that doesn't pop up on my computer everytime I want to copy a folder of mine onto a disk or something.
It doesn't do that on your computer?! I should get mine looked at...
Lol what a great find.
He says if you buy a disk don't copy it buy one copy for every computer you have. gee how much were games back then?
no, seriously about the time this video was made how much would an average game cost? Surely a few floppy disks weren't $99 (thats Australian money) $50 or something for americans.
Quote from: timh_009 on Mon 09/02/2004 08:58:42
$99 (thats Australian money) $50 or something for americans.
where have you been hiding, the American dollar isn't really the big currency it used to be, although I'm sure it will make a comeback.
eg. $1 AUD = 0.771 USD = 0.61 Euro = 0.42 British pound = 1.02 CAD = 46.33 Jamaican Dollar = 621.34 Zimbabwe Dollar = 6,521.12 Indonesian Rupiah (conversion rate on 9th Feb 2004)
I can't recall how much games were back in the 80's/early 90's as I never bought any myself, but they still weren't cheap. They weren't nearly as popular as they are now (obviously the quality was better though) so they were probably similar prices, well actually I don't even know how much games cost these days anyway, I still never buy them.
I'll have to check out the video to see what all the fuss is about
Bwhaha, good stuff. I especially liked the resurrected corpse of David Crosby posing as a programmer (and I don't think he's even dead yet).
Quote from: Dark Stalkey on Mon 09/02/2004 10:42:21
Bwhaha, good stuff. I especially liked the resurrected corpse of David Crosby posing as a programmer (and I don't think he's even dead yet).
I hope not, otherwise I recently saw a zombie perform.
Whoa, seriously, how long was Neverwinter Nights in development before they released it?
While I realise you were (probably) joking, there was an earlier Neverwinter Nights (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,11616/)
Seems noone has pointed out that he's not really copying a floppy this time around.
Woo, pedantry.
Starting my own rap.
Don't Control+C, that D-V-D
Quote from: AGA on Mon 09/02/2004 18:49:14
While I realise you were (probably) joking, there was an earlier Neverwinter Nights (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,11616/)
Hehe well I was kinda wondering if they had postponed the project for 10 years to let technology catch up.... or something