Who here is old enough and bri'ish enough to have played games on Teletext?
As an American I was always fascinated with pictures of Ceefax. Reminded me of old BBS software.
Who here is old enough and bri'ish enough to have played games on Teletext?
Who here is old enough and bri'ish enough to have played games on Teletext?
As an American I was always fascinated with pictures of Ceefax. Reminded me of old BBS software.
Glad to see the speccy community are allies!
Teletext has nothing to do with ZX Spectrum. Teletext used to be a TV service that regularly updated with news and entertainment and shit. It's kind of like a precursor to the mainstream web, streaming, etc. And it had games. So it's an early example of remote digital games.
it was running on the BBC micro, a speccy in all but name.
teletext ran on your normal ass tv
>The Acorn BBC Micro's default graphics mode (mode 7) was based on teletext display, and the computer could be used to create and serve teletext-style pages over a modem connection. With a suitable adapter, the computer could receive and display teletext pages, as well as software over the BBC's Ceefax service, for a time.
>a speccy in all but name.
two entirely different computers and architectures. gotta love this board's collective of dunning-kruger tier liars. teletext was a single IC, you fricking idiot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullard_SAA5050
>teletext was a single IC
lol. dunning-kruger tier liars indeed
>americans didn't have teletext
Grim
>things I don't know about never existed
Dim
It wasn't popular and didn't last long but it was available in a few places.
Me dad used to check it for the TV times and probably the weather too. Speaking of which, who here used to frequent britfa.gs?
I don't remember playing games on Teletext, but I remember Teletext Holidays.
>Oct22
How on earth
>Advertizes the website
What was the point of it if you could just go on the website?
People still had slow Internet speeds then and not every Briton who used Teletext was necessarily computer-savvy in those days.
Booked it, packed it, fricked off
haha yes mate
I never played them but I once accidentally started one up and told my mum on myself
I only remember the porn
Ah, good old 0190.
Never understood why anyone would call that shit though.
The fellas were always edging.
>Beate Uhse
>not Teresa Orlovsky
NGMI
>Asiatische jung-frauen
This sounds more funny than sexy.
jungfrau means virgin
>This sounds more funny than sexy
It's neither. Carl Jung fangirls are the worst.
German is literally a language made with burps and farts
I love Teletext btw
Careful though. If you burp for too long or fart higher than more of a semitone you could change the whole meaning of a sentence.
We start practicing the right amount of muscle tension in kindergarten.
Ahahah that's amazing
The sega genesis of languages
Forget games. Digitiser. Used to read it every morning before school. Was exciting because other than magazines gaming news wasn't as ubiquitous as nowadays. There was a slightly edgy underground feel to gaming back then.
>Forget games. Digitiser. Used to read it every morning before school
Same here I would read it daily until I got online around 97-98
GameCentral was a replacement for Digitiser just looked it up. Guess I was post '03 when I started reading Gamecentral as well as Planet Sound and Megazine for the sexy comments from Elden Ray..
https://segaretro.org/GameCentral
https://www.superpage58.com/game-central-teletext-2003-03-10.htm
?t=1826
I remember cheating my way through the games. Didnt have the fancy teletext that could read ahead so I would pick one of the 4 game options and have to wait for the signal to cycle round to see what it did. But the page number would change straight away. So once you figure out what number means "you lose" you can just choose again quickly if you pick wrong.
I'm old enough to have spent time playing with teletext but never heard of games being made for it, that's news to me. I was pretty into teletext too.
Press reveal to see the real Turner the Worm being sick
Jesus H. Christ
I have vague memories of trying to play "games" on cartoon network's teletext
More like TroonText amirite
I'm a troon, and I also agree.
prove it
I would use it to read gaming news and reviews
In my shithole teenage girls used the teletext message service to meet and frick older guys, cops had to shut the whole thing down lmao
No they didn't.
What country? I find this hard to believe because it was probably faster and more efficient to just write your number on park benches than it would be to navigate teletext in the off chance of finding someone nearby.
Teletext brings back memories. I remember you could find many weird pages that made no sense at all. That made it sort of similar to the Web of 90's.
Moc-moc-a-moc
swayze
Polish TVP (our equivalent of the BBC) also had something like this. Losely translated as "telerabbit's meadow". Mostly simple quiz or logic games, some articles for kids, jokes and a social corner where you could display your age, interests and IRL address to find friends through snail mail. Looking back on it, probably not the brightest idea. I wrote to some guy who was into Pokémon, we'd exchange cards a few times, then he'd send me boosters and comics. Dropped the bomb in one letter that he's over 30. My father absolutely lost his shit and I was banned from ever contacting anyone else advertising through Teletext.
Your Dad did the right thing. Imagine some dude in his 30s playing a children's game. Creepy shit.
How did your TVP store user info? Was there a central server or something? Did you say it transmitted over the internet on a computer or your television?
Nah I agree, don't blame him I'm the slightest, again dunno what they were thinking with sharing personal information out in the open like that. It was accessible through a TV, regular Teletext with no Internet access. You'd send a letter (traditional snail mail, envelope, stamp and all that jazz) to the TV station and ask to have your ad featured. They'd type it in by hand, include your IRL address and if anyone wanted to contact you, they'd send you a letter. I'm assuming there must have been at least a few people hired by TVP solely to organise and run these Teletext pages. This was a fun little kids corner with games and silly articles, but the vast majority of Teletext on TVP was essentially Yellowpages. Probably a decent business back in the day.
>You'd send a letter (traditional snail mail, envelope, stamp and all that jazz) to the TV station and ask to have your ad featured. They'd type it in by hand, include your IRL address and if anyone wanted to contact you, they'd send you a letter.
Eastern Europe feels like a different world sometimes but I suppose quirks like that were what it was like just after communism fell.
That's not unusual, everyone sent letters in the 90s.
I wasn't talking about sending letters lmao. I was talking about personal ads via Teletext. I just used it for the tv listings guide.
Bro what age are you, what he's describing was the common way to do things in the 90's, everyone used letters and regular mail. Internet and emailing didn't become common place until the 2000's in many parts of Europe and the very late 90's in places like Britain.
Sending written personal ads to a Teletext company so they could write it out on their Teletext consoles and broadcast it over the air to every telly wasn't a thing really done in the west (the UK). And I'm pretty sure people still send letters to each other by snail mail.
People used to include their real address in letters to magazines and it would be published alongside the letter. Are you underage or something?
pedo stuff aside
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I laugh like how Sans talks..
zombie dave was genius
I mostly remember teletext for football results, my Dad checking the stock markets and my parents using it to book holidays abroad when we were young lol.
How would you book anything via teletext? It's a purely recieving medium.
Or do you mean inform about holiday packages and then call? But why teletext, travel agencies have full color shiny catalogs of possibilites.
>But why teletext, travel agencies have full color shiny catalogs of possibilites.
Because instead of hauling your ass off the couch to a travel agent, you can just click the Teletext button on your remote.
It was just another method of promotion and advertizing
>that'll be $19.99/minute plus tip
>I found something half of the world had but not America so now I'm going to pretend it was some exotic thing unique to the one foreign country I know anything about because surely we can't be the ones that are weird right
I fricking hate burgers with all my soul
>not America
anon, teletext literally originated in the US
It didn't. It was first conceived by a Phillips engineer and first implemented in Britain.
Obsessed dumbshit, glad we make shitholers seethe just by existing
Hi, Israel.
Yurotards literally go to jail for mocking israelites or questioning the Six Gorillion narrative.
>anon makes an innocent thread to discuss retro tech
>AW GEEZE AW DUDE THESE DAMN AMERICANS IM GOING INSAAAANE
Pathetic.
>anon makes an innocent thread to discuss retro tech
While acting like a clueless moron in the process of doing so. That's why it's so fricking annoying to share a board with you guys without having access to flags for easy filtering.You're so damn sheltered every time a topic about what you would consider the outside world comes up we have to talk to you like you're 6 or something. It's gets old, and irritating. Imagine you're trying to talk about idk, some American issue in Alabama, and a massive horde of morons pop up out of nowhere and start asking moronic shit like DUUH ALABAMA WASN'T THAT LIKE THE NAME OF A PREZZ OR SOMETHING
That's how you sound like, That's how dealing with you is like. You will never understand our pain.
You sound like b***h lol
"You sound like a b- aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!" *dies from a heart attack, because he's such a fat piece of atherosclerosis ridden shit*
That's how every foreigner sounds to Americans about all topics always. You all have no clue about anything.
>no u
Top 10 most epic comebacks of all time
he's right tho
Not really
You sound circumcised
>I love acting like a clueless moron because it annoys normal people
Classic yank
>Classic yank
they are so fricking moronic that it's unreal to witness. when they fail at basic history they just lie about everything and lose their inbred minds.
>s h a r t
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Played it a lot and read the jokes pages.
Used to roll the live texts when watching question time back 20 years ago or so
An old scottish forum member I used to talk to showed me some ceefax clips back in the day. Those have a really nice soundtracks playing and I sometimes run the streamed one going to bed at night. I wish we had that here in the US instead of the usual test screen or static if there was nothing on the air.
In another timeline, millennials make a big deal and lots of memes about pic-rel if it aired here.
that test card was definitely a gen-x nostalgia thing rather than millenial. fun fact, the image is flipped because the girl was left handed and the BBC thought left-handedness was unnatural.
>BBC thought left-handedness was unnatural
I mean, they were right
I was born in 1990 and saw it all the time
Have you ever seen his blog? Dude is rllmuk / Cookd and Bombd tier whining about le hecking terfs
Glad to see Mr Biffo is still around and doing Digi stuff
Yup, used to play Bamboozle every day after school and read the Digitiser pages.
Hungarian state media channels still have teletext, can view it here
https://teletext.hu/
>teletext was still alive the last time I had a gf
My life is literally over.
Technically true. Teletext is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets, and was never alive.
wasn't there some dungeon crawler adventure game