View Full Version : Really cool HSW/ET/Raiders/Swordquest vid from '83.
Captain Wrong
04-11-2006, 03:34 PM
Check this out...
http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/hotstuff.html
I hadn't seen anyone else mention this vid before. The rest of the site is really cool, if a bit of an html nightmare.
I can't believe they pimped ET out on a TV magazine show. Wow.
Damaramu
04-11-2006, 05:57 PM
Oohhh.....I really dug that arcade assembly shot.....sweeeeet. LOL
GarrettCRW
04-11-2006, 06:03 PM
It's a paid ad masquerading as a TV show. It's a good thing we're smarter than that now, right? :D
Pantechnicon
04-12-2006, 12:42 AM
just awesome. HSW is the Man.
blissfulnoise
04-12-2006, 10:37 AM
"Go ahead and play those wimpy little games, wait till the new E.T. comes out!"
That's signature gold.
Anyone else notice 50% of the time E.T. was on the screen he was in a pit?
Arcade Antics
04-12-2006, 06:17 PM
Awesome. LOL
Kid Ice
04-12-2006, 07:15 PM
Ahh, a heapin' helpin' o' 80s attitude, courtesy of the Cap'n.
My favorite part is when the host identifies HSW as the one on the right. Does he think we've forgotten what he looks like that quickly?
Second favorite part, when HSW tries to show the host how to navigate out of the pit.
HSW is a "game chef"? What the heck does that mean?
Love the ET music playing during the Swordquest scene. Man, how bad was that Swordquest player? Jesus.
Did that Space Invaders screen shot look strange to anyone else?
At the beginning there is a poster in the background that says "Donkey Kong Junior is here!"!
HSW mentions one of the features of Raiders is "tsetse flies".
Arcade Antics
04-12-2006, 07:33 PM
HSW is a "game chef"? What the heck does that mean?
[insert bakes/makes games joke here]
;)
YoshiM
04-13-2006, 11:16 AM
My favorite part is when the host identifies HSW as the one on the right. Does he think we've forgotten what he looks like that quickly?
What's really funny is that HSW is actually on the host's LEFT.
Game chef.....LOL
XYXZYZ
04-13-2006, 01:17 PM
I like the end where he talks to kids playing arcade games with 100x more power than a 2600, says "Go ahead and play these wimpy little games, I have a head start with ET!"
Torque Smacky
04-15-2006, 04:00 AM
Hi; I'm the owner of the Platypus Comix site and I made and uploaded that video (and I'm now working on a follow-up interview with Warshaw--the fact that it got all the way to him was just too much LOL )
Since most of you are such classic gaming experts, I was wondering if you knew the answer to something that's been bugging me every time I've seen this video:
http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/hotstuff1.JPG
WHAT is the name of that machine that's right behind him?? It says "Super....." Super something.... I just can't decipher it.
Bronty-2
04-15-2006, 04:21 AM
super cobra.
jcalder8
04-15-2006, 10:08 AM
Looks like a tractor doesn't it? LOL LOL This was my favorite part. That should be your first tipoff to a bad game when the main character gets compaired to a tractor
tylerwillis
04-16-2006, 01:40 AM
Great vid.