An authentically fake look at computer games in the 1980′s

From the contemporary British spoof 1980′s educational TV program Look Around You, here’s an introduction to computer games:

I find its distortions eerily accurate – the crazy assumptions about what would be the future of games and technology; the “graphics are very realistic”; the seriousness of the interviewer; the synthesizer music; the zany games (UK games were very zany at the time).

(Via Kevin Driscoll.)

One Response to “An authentically fake look at computer games in the 1980′s”

  1. Chris Lowthorpe Says:

    Excellent post, great programme!

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