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In 1997 our school class computer had three particularly fun screensavers: - The one from Microsoft Dangerous Creatures, which would show wild animals and (if
by Nition 4y ago
In 1997 our school class computer had three particularly fun screensavers:
- The one from Microsoft Dangerous Creatures, which would show wild animals and (if you forgot to tell it not to) also play their sounds. Fun times when you're all sitting quietly in class and suddenly the computer plays a lion roar.
- After Dark. For some reason the flying toasters were endlessly fascinating back then.
- One that was a top-down view of a soccer field with an actual simulated game being played between little AI players. I think occasionally there was even a streaker. I've never managed to find this one, does anyone know it?
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> you're all sitting quietly in class and suddenly the computer plays a lion roar INTERACTIVITY
- Nition 4y agoToday, the idea of a program that intentionally makes your computer start playing loud sounds after X minutes of inactivity is ridiculous. Back then, it was also ridiculous but the world hadn't quite realised yet. We were too excited about INTERACTIVITY.
- r2_pilot 4y agoDoes your phone not sporadically and infrequently beep throughout the day? Yay INTERACTIVITY
- cortesoft 4y agoWas the last one called "Lights Out Sports Fans"? I know they had a baseball and basketball one, that did what you described. I had the baseball one. In fact, it is kinda a funny story... I was about 10 years old, and my mom used to take me out of school every year to go to the MacWorld convention in San Francisco (just the exhibition hall). One year I went and they had a booth for lights out sports fans screen savers, and as a prize for sitting through the demo you had a chance to win the baseball one. Well, I sat through the demo about 5 times trying to win and never won. I would answer all the questions the demo guy would ask, and he was probably getting a little annoyed. He finally just gave me the screen saver to get me to go away. Looks like you can buy it on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/202832094823 https://www.ebay.com/itm/202832094823
- Nition 4y agoThanks! I don't remember the name, but I bet it was, because really how many simulated sports game screensavers can there have been? There doesn't seem to be any particular record of a soccer/football version of Lights Out Sports Fans on the Internet that I can see, but then it was a long time ago and there isn't much info on the other sports either.
- amatecha 4y agoAhh that's awesome. I wished so badly I could attend MacWorld Expo back then. My parents went a couple times, but I didn't get to join. I still have some super cool swag they brought back, though, at least! Those were fun times indeed :)
- cortesoft 4y agoIt was seriously magical to me. This was like 91 to 96 or so, so the internet was just starting for the mainstream and so getting demo versions of software was really cool. We used to ride BART into the city, and then the whole BART ride back after would be me going through my bag of swag reading all the pamphlets and looking at the demo disks. Half the stuff I didn’t even know what it was yet, but it fascinated me. My mom wasn’t into tech at all, either. She just knew I was so she found out about the conference and took me. I was so lucky.