I'm watching this movie right now and I cannot believe it's been 20 years already! They did such a fantastic job with the effects, still rivaling what's put out today.
Thanks for making me feel old today.
I caught it in the theater on opening day in my early 20s.
Oh God, I wish I could go back in a time machine to when it premiered. I was working at this retail dump for peanuts with a bunch of crazy people that went and saw that movie with me. I had to get Crichton's books after that and then, when I finished them, I'd leave them on the time sheet at work so others could read them and it started a trend where everyone would leave books there as a sort of communal library. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I also left a John Grisham book or two there also.
Anyway, at the time Jurassic Park came out I thought the job I was working sucked and I was making peanuts and it was a struggle to just get by but now, in retrospect, it was one of the best periods of my life. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat. But you can't go home again. sigh...
Thanks for making me feel old today.
I caught it in the theater on opening day in my early 20s.
Me too. You are younger than me.
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Jurassic Park was my first download on Morpheus (remember that?)
Let me take you back further. Remember CompuServe and Prodigy, two of the most popular BBS services in the 80s and early 90s?
Prodigy! I had Compuserve and then Prodigy. That was in the days I would play Duke Nukem for hours on end, and Doom. Freakin DIALUP!
*beats Bluce over the head with his Texas Instruments
I had a Commodore 64. I saved up to buy a modem that gave us a paltry 1200 bps. The moment I connected to Compuserve for the first time, i felt like a hacker. I was 12 and all i could think about doing with that modem was hacking into NASA or the Pentagon just like in the movies.
That 16k piece of shit had a nice voice synthesizer you plugged into the front-side cartridge port.
That 16k piece of shit had a nice voice synthesizer you plugged into the front-side cartridge port.
I had one too. . OMG, I remember when I got my first 56K modem, which was an upgrade from 1400. The average game was about 10MB and it took more than an hour.
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I wanted that! Never got it.
10 MB? Commodore 64 had 64k of RAM with only 38k free. The average game was 32k, bro.
I am amazed at the quality of software and games they were able to write for such small amounts of memory. The IBM PC only had 16k, expandable to 64k, and even it had fantastic software, though C64 was superior. It had a sound chip called SID (sound interface device) capable of synthesizing near real world sounds, and its graphics chip was capable of a rainbow of colors in high-res compared to IBM only capable of 3 color in its highest resolution.
Not Duke Nukem...but that was on my first 386DX machine...the first I ever built.
OMG, Doom!
I loved that game! I remember the precursor to it being something like Wolfenstein, either that or they were one and the same. Does anyone remember that? Anyway, I loved the game and really loved Doom II. I played that one forever. Great game!
What sucks is that I recently realized how long ago that was but it still feels like yesterday. And the one thing I miss about PC gaming is the cheat codes. "God mode" in Doom II was hilarious!