Hello there
Like many of us I come from a generation where we would just buy a game on tape and that was it. No dlc, no bug fixes, just you, your computer of choice (obviously ZX wins) and hopefully a colour TV and a tape player.
*IF* the message is just noise then cool. If *we* are daft enough to hop on the hype train (hype cobra?) then all is good.
I spent hours in "Dungeon Master" on my ST trying to corrupt my savegame to see if I could exit out of the dungeon and see what was there. Utterly futile but it was a pivotal time in my childhood where my imagination took over from cold hard fact. I would have hated it if the dev came along and pointed out how ridiculous my efforts were. Same with Ant attack on the Speccy. I was always looking for stuff that wasnt there.
I vote no. dont tell us. Not yet. Not for a few years. Let it become part of the great unknowns.
When im in my 90's id like to read in the matrix (if reading still exists) that the signal was just a devs Sisters of Mercy Track played backwards and messed around with for a laugh, id be more than happy with that if indeed it is nonsense.
Im off to shout at a cloud.
Rgds
LoK
ps there *was* going to be a point to my first sentence but i became sidetracked...which was the style at the time...)
Like many of us I come from a generation where we would just buy a game on tape and that was it. No dlc, no bug fixes, just you, your computer of choice (obviously ZX wins) and hopefully a colour TV and a tape player.
*IF* the message is just noise then cool. If *we* are daft enough to hop on the hype train (hype cobra?) then all is good.
I spent hours in "Dungeon Master" on my ST trying to corrupt my savegame to see if I could exit out of the dungeon and see what was there. Utterly futile but it was a pivotal time in my childhood where my imagination took over from cold hard fact. I would have hated it if the dev came along and pointed out how ridiculous my efforts were. Same with Ant attack on the Speccy. I was always looking for stuff that wasnt there.
I vote no. dont tell us. Not yet. Not for a few years. Let it become part of the great unknowns.
When im in my 90's id like to read in the matrix (if reading still exists) that the signal was just a devs Sisters of Mercy Track played backwards and messed around with for a laugh, id be more than happy with that if indeed it is nonsense.
Im off to shout at a cloud.
Rgds
LoK
ps there *was* going to be a point to my first sentence but i became sidetracked...which was the style at the time...)
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