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- Gears '94
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- THE FUTURE OF THE COMPACT DISC
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- I might have already said this sixteen times, but I've compiled these
- articles from the Future Entertainment Show in London, England.
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- The CD-32 looked beautiful, but I was more amazed by the.....ohhh... I
- can hardly bring myself to say it... The CD-I. The CD-32 is good, and I
- can understand Commodore putting "TO BE THIS GOOD WOULD TAKE SEGA AGES"
- in their adverts, but it just doesn't have the backing from the software
- companies that it needs. I saw a game called 7th Quest on the CD-I, and
- it wiped the floor with anything the Mega-CD could do. A remote control
- lets you turn, pick up, inspect and open anything in the game (it was
- an adventure). But it wouldn't just load a fancy picture when you
- turned 90 degrees, it would actually move everything....just as if you
- looked around your room now.
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- I'm writing loads of articles on inter-activity as I think now is the time
- of change in the computing world. People were using the small TDK
- Mini-CD-Disc at the FES which is read/writable and can hold the same
- amount of data as the CD can. An FMV was in use, with the "Top Gun" film
- blasting out of the Philips stand in it's (now) digital glory. There are
- the frightening prospects, interactive movies are already available....
- Remember what used to happen on the Amiga ? Porn, and stacks of it. Okay,
- so that won't be possible yet as CD's can't be written-to by consumers,
- but some companies are already producing movies like "Foyeur" which
- features scantily-clad women all over the place. Just imagine the outrage
- that would be caused by an interactive XXX porn movie ! Yeah, the
- Government would go bananas....and as for Mary Whitehouse..... Oooo !
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- Looking even further into the future, imagine, it's the year 2010.
- Everyone uses a mini-CD-disc system to record their favourite soap on
- tele, play a game, watch a movie, inter-act with "Big Bessy" on the
- XXX disc from the rental shop or even read their favourite PD magazine !
- Would kids from that generation be affected ? Would they start to order
- real people around just because they can on their Interactive CD
- Recorder ? Would Mom order the grocery by inserting her shopping disc
- and sending via cable to SafeWay ? Who knows ? Am I talking a load of
- crap ? If I'd said that we'd be watching and being "interactive" with a
- full-length movie on a piece of round plastic 10 years ago, people would
- have laughed ! So what will happen next ? Tell us ! Hit REPLY and send
- ZAM back with an SAE for a new copy and your views in the next mag !
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