#1554 – Loop
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
My son’s first introduction to a shiny 5″ plastic disc was a DVD. So now on the rare occasion he runs across a CD or video game disc he also refers to them as DVDs. I suppose when he’s older they will be just a memory like giant cartridge based games were in my youth.
Tags: music, slingshot, song
It could be worse! My little cousin used to refer to any bottled beverage as wine when she was 2 or 3 years old.
Also, I wonder what would happen if my cousin found a VHS tape. “Where is the movie?!” And then she would probably try to open up the VHS tape, and pull out all the black tape from it…
Despite all evidence, I still think the cartridges were way better than the delicate 5″ CDs that went after the SNES and N64 :/
Aside from no load times, there’s just the substantial feel of slotting a cart into a console. The DS line still carry that feel, even if you’re just clicking a small card into place. You just get that sense of doing something real before you get eaten by Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde.
I like cartridges because they don’t get scratched.
Relatedly, remember how in the 80s a LOT of kids called NES cartridges “tapes?” That seems like sort of the opposite phenomenon.
Huh, never heard that before. We always called them “games”.
Our moms certainly called them “tapes.” Also, everything was a “Nintendo,” from Sega Genesis cartridges to the Sony Playstation itself.
Back in the day, the default term for consoles was “an Atari”. And the carts were “Tapes”.
I was born in 1989, so I missed the 80s, and *I* remember hearing cartridges get called “tapes” once or twice…
Personally, I’d like to see MicroSD chips become the new default music format. Music would be recorded directly into a computer (no physical master tape to deteriorate over the years) at whatever bit-rate was desired, mixed in-computer, and then stored in a secured server. The customer could then either supply their own chip, or buy one from the music company or even put it into a personal Cloud for later download or streaming.
Woah… I feel like I’ve seen this before. Picture, caption and everything. Weird.
Is this the one you’re thinking of?
http://www.thebookofbiff.com/2011/12/30/1444-single/
(Maybe the Biff in Friday’s comic hit himself from the past with a record?)
Ah, could be. Thanks for that.
I grew up in the period where CD’s and DVD’s were just starting to overtake tapes and stuff. I was about 5 when we got our first DVD player, and it took me a little while to realize that the shiny discs are not compatible with the VCR, and the black boxes are not compatible with the DVD player. I was 5, okay?