I remember renting the NES version from the grocery store 30+ years ago. I remember the half pipe was a pain to control, BMX and Hacky Sack played well, and if you went over the top of the wave on surfing, the Jaws theme would play and a shark would show up. Can’t remember if that was every time or just occasionally.
unless one just feeds you tons of ads and harvests user data. That’s one reason why Gab, which is a fork of Mastodon, was defederated from most of the 'verse before Gab just went ahead and turned federation off.
You could create a Lemmy instance that made it far less user friendly to connect to other communities, and “forced” other users to join its communities because ‘that’s where everyone is’. That’s one of the reasons why there is so much fuss over how to handle threads.net when/if they turn on federation.
I think a big help to avoid this is if any “official” apps automatically point to something like lemmyverse search or Fediverse Observer rather than Join Lemmy or any singleinstance. Mastodon.socialwas already by far the largest before the only app named “mastodon” available in the major mobile repositories was built to automatically have you create an account on mastodon.social to “Make it easier for the normies”.
The fact that I dont’ even know the name of any lead developers of #lemmy as opposed to /u/[email protected] is probably a good sign too.
I think that’s against the plan with Lemmy and distributed instances, but they can improve sign up, and make it possible to migrate your user between instances, or do some unique username across all instances.
A cool feature would also be that a user could backup all their posts and votes.
We should have gotten something that’s actually decentralised and P2P like Aether.
What we got was centralised servers + a glorified RSS feed that enables even more echo chambers than Reddit did… The fediverse is doomed to remain irrelevant imho
Simple fix, just don't join big instances, create new communities on small instances and self-host. If everybody does so, nobody has an interest into coercing users in a hermetic system, because they have far more to loose through possible defederation
Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven’t experienced much of either yet. There’s tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I’m just not seeing it yet ¯*(ツ)*/¯
Yeah I played the hell out of this on my friends Atari Lynx, this and Ramparts. The graphics in California Games were lush on that brilliant little screen.
I liked the idea of circles. I’m part of multiple social circles and what might be interesting for one could very well be meaningless for another circle.
I also liked YouTube chat. I had Messenger at the time, but I could contact my family on YouTube chat too. So I deleted my Facebook account and switched to chatting over YouTube. Then they shut it down, so I just let it be and stopped talking with my family.
The “circles” were awesome. It was a breeze to tweak your feed based on which circle you put someone in. Rather than get all the posts from a very hit or miss account I could pretty much say “only the top posts”.
The “Games” series was made by Epyx. First was Summer Games, followed by Summer Games 2, Winter Games, World Games, California Games, and California Games 2. They also released The Games: Summer Edition and The Games: Winter Excision. All of these games follow the same basic format.
California Games did have some more versions, Apple II, Apple IIGS, DOS, MSX, Atari ST etc.
Great write up! I’m amazed that I’ve never played this game. Although the first consoles that I played were the NES and especially the SNES, so maybe I was born too late.
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