Thank you for your work. You produce great content that is both visually creative, acoustically calming, topically intriguing and thoughtful, and rhetorically polished. I wonder whether at times you read from a script or memorize your lines. When you’re not overtly reading poetry or prose from a book, have you?
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you've found this stuff of value. As for scripting and memorization, it's varied over the years. Early on I used to not bother scripting in any deliberate way at all - I'd just come up with a vague idea of what I wanted to say, get the shot, then think about what sort of thing I wanted to say next. I might have a general idea as to the arc of the conversation I wanted to have before that, but nothing actually on paper. My "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Through a Gamer's Lens" video was constructed that way, for instance. In other instances I'd have some things scripted out specifically, and ad-lib asides to it when I thought of something I didn't have previously outlined but wanted to include. In this case I obviously had a script in front of me, and the narration is assembled from multiple takes with the camera rolling continuously. I'm not really trying to hide that. I'll memorize snippets and deliver them, but committing an entire script to memory for something like this seems unnecessary. I'm not putting on a play in this instance - I'm sharing my thoughts. If there's something more theatrical I want to deliver, where I'm worried about immersion and making it look like a natural scene, I may go to the trouble of running lines and getting it in my head. For something like this it would simply be unnecessary stress and delay the process. Long story short, I decide on a project by project basis how I'll put things together.
This is some of your best work -- so informative, creative, engaging and philosophical. Thank you for continuing to make content and thank you for your time. I can't wait to see more in the series
Aww man youtube didn't notify me about this video😔 well, I'm happy to have watched it now either way!💗 This was a fantastic video as always; calming and just overall enjoyable to listen to you talking about your passions. This narration was excellent! It really made the gameplay you showed us feel much more intense, while also having a sense of nostalgia and magic to it (if that makes sense)! I never heard about this game, and i might not have thought much of it before watching this. But listening you talk about it, made me see and understand exactly what you were feeling and trying to convey. I can really see the appeal now! Also, you are a master at finding amazing stuff at thrift stores/garage sales😂 Anyways, I really look forward to your next video! Keep up the excellent work!!💖💖💖
Sorry if the Notification bell was being finnicky. Glad you enjoyed it, in any case! With a lot of older games it can be tricky to see the appeal until you've tried them. I'm pleased if I was able to share at least some of what made Night Stalker interesting to me. The next game I look at is going to be from the same era, though with substantially less primitive graphics.
Almacov oh gosh no it's definitely not your fault don't worry!😭 youtube and my phone are just weird and glitchy all the time.;__; And yes i agree! Sometimes you just gotta try out the game to get a good feel for it. (Not an old game but for the longest time, i felt like smash wouldn't be my cup of tea; but i recently tried it and it's actually pretty fun!!) But i am definitely looking forward to your next video!👀 i bet it will be just as good as this one!!💖💖💖 Also very random but i was thinking about this game the other day and the graphics made me remember about tv video games? I'm not sure what they were called exactly but i remember we had these games on our cable tv and you'd use the remote control of the tv as the controller. I really miss those games but unfortunately they are probably lost forever since they weren't games you could physically buy (from what i know). rather, they were already installed in the tv when you bought your cable subscription. It's too bad cause i remember really enjoying them! They were so simple and had simple graphics but were still very enjoyable!
Well, the second episode is up! I hope you enjoy it. As for games included with cable subscriptions, that's a fascinating thing. There are so many forms of digital media that are terribly difficult to preserve... which makes strange relics like that all the more intriguing. I don't think I ever encountered those.
Had this system as a young kid - and had Night Stalker. I probably logged more time in the Tron game and the D&D game than any others. Wish I still had it.
Great video. Nightstalker reminds me of the Call of Duty zombies modes. Although there are many different versions now that have actual endpoints, most of them are built on a cycle of avoidance and adaptation after each “game over.”
Intriguing! I've never played much of those, and always assumed there would be enough ammo that it would lean too much on the shooting to fit in the genre. I may have to give it another spin.
Dark Cavern, for the Atari 2600, was produced by Mattel under their M-Network brand. While superficially modeled after Night Stalker, it's actually pretty mechanically distinct, to the point I'm not sure I'd call it an evasion game. I also have a copy of that one.
@@Almacov yes. That's the name of it. And, as always, those M-Network games were watered down. But, still good. My favorite M-Network game was Football.
I've only played a few of them. The 2600 had pretty different constraints to my understanding, so it is interesting to see what decisions the programmers made in adapting things. I don't think the M-Network titles are all strictly worse, but some of the differences can be pretty dramatic. (Usually I prefer the Intellivision equivalents, but for a number of them I can see it being a matter of taste.)
Thank you for your work. You produce great content that is both visually creative, acoustically calming, topically intriguing and thoughtful, and rhetorically polished.
I wonder whether at times you read from a script or memorize your lines. When you’re not overtly reading poetry or prose from a book, have you?
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you've found this stuff of value.
As for scripting and memorization, it's varied over the years. Early on I used to not bother scripting in any deliberate way at all - I'd just come up with a vague idea of what I wanted to say, get the shot, then think about what sort of thing I wanted to say next. I might have a general idea as to the arc of the conversation I wanted to have before that, but nothing actually on paper. My "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Through a Gamer's Lens" video was constructed that way, for instance.
In other instances I'd have some things scripted out specifically, and ad-lib asides to it when I thought of something I didn't have previously outlined but wanted to include.
In this case I obviously had a script in front of me, and the narration is assembled from multiple takes with the camera rolling continuously. I'm not really trying to hide that.
I'll memorize snippets and deliver them, but committing an entire script to memory for something like this seems unnecessary. I'm not putting on a play in this instance - I'm sharing my thoughts.
If there's something more theatrical I want to deliver, where I'm worried about immersion and making it look like a natural scene, I may go to the trouble of running lines and getting it in my head.
For something like this it would simply be unnecessary stress and delay the process.
Long story short, I decide on a project by project basis how I'll put things together.
This is some of your best work -- so informative, creative, engaging and philosophical. Thank you for continuing to make content and thank you for your time. I can't wait to see more in the series
Thanks! Glad you dig it.
The second episode is up today - it took longer to get the way I wanted it than expected, but I had fun with it.
Aww man youtube didn't notify me about this video😔 well, I'm happy to have watched it now either way!💗
This was a fantastic video as always; calming and just overall enjoyable to listen to you talking about your passions.
This narration was excellent! It really made the gameplay you showed us feel much more intense, while also having a sense of nostalgia and magic to it (if that makes sense)! I never heard about this game, and i might not have thought much of it before watching this. But listening you talk about it, made me see and understand exactly what you were feeling and trying to convey. I can really see the appeal now!
Also, you are a master at finding amazing stuff at thrift stores/garage sales😂
Anyways, I really look forward to your next video! Keep up the excellent work!!💖💖💖
Sorry if the Notification bell was being finnicky. Glad you enjoyed it, in any case!
With a lot of older games it can be tricky to see the appeal until you've tried them. I'm pleased if I was able to share at least some of what made Night Stalker interesting to me. The next game I look at is going to be from the same era, though with substantially less primitive graphics.
Almacov oh gosh no it's definitely not your fault don't worry!😭 youtube and my phone are just weird and glitchy all the time.;__;
And yes i agree! Sometimes you just gotta try out the game to get a good feel for it. (Not an old game but for the longest time, i felt like smash wouldn't be my cup of tea; but i recently tried it and it's actually pretty fun!!)
But i am definitely looking forward to your next video!👀 i bet it will be just as good as this one!!💖💖💖
Also very random but i was thinking about this game the other day and the graphics made me remember about tv video games? I'm not sure what they were called exactly but i remember we had these games on our cable tv and you'd use the remote control of the tv as the controller. I really miss those games but unfortunately they are probably lost forever since they weren't games you could physically buy (from what i know). rather, they were already installed in the tv when you bought your cable subscription.
It's too bad cause i remember really enjoying them! They were so simple and had simple graphics but were still very enjoyable!
Well, the second episode is up! I hope you enjoy it.
As for games included with cable subscriptions, that's a fascinating thing. There are so many forms of digital media that are terribly difficult to preserve... which makes strange relics like that all the more intriguing. I don't think I ever encountered those.
Had this system as a young kid - and had Night Stalker. I probably logged more time in the Tron game and the D&D game than any others. Wish I still had it.
Great video. Nightstalker reminds me of the Call of Duty zombies modes. Although there are many different versions now that have actual endpoints, most of them are built on a cycle of avoidance and adaptation after each “game over.”
Intriguing! I've never played much of those, and always assumed there would be enough ammo that it would lean too much on the shooting to fit in the genre.
I may have to give it another spin.
Nice presentation! Keep these up.
keep up the great content!
Fantastic!
here's the big question. I own Night stalker. But, I also had an Atari game that was very similar to Night Stalker. But, it had a different name....
Dark Cavern, for the Atari 2600, was produced by Mattel under their M-Network brand. While superficially modeled after Night Stalker, it's actually pretty mechanically distinct, to the point I'm not sure I'd call it an evasion game. I also have a copy of that one.
@@Almacov yes. That's the name of it. And, as always, those M-Network games were watered down. But, still good. My favorite M-Network game was Football.
I've only played a few of them. The 2600 had pretty different constraints to my understanding, so it is interesting to see what decisions the programmers made in adapting things. I don't think the M-Network titles are all strictly worse, but some of the differences can be pretty dramatic. (Usually I prefer the Intellivision equivalents, but for a number of them I can see it being a matter of taste.)
Is this guy brilliant or what?