GAMES FROM THE FUTURE!

[guyjin]

http://www.datarealms.com/devlog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/fog.gif
(stolen from usenet)

while some of them are somewhat accurate, some are completely wrong.

the lesson? Don't prognosticate; people 30 years later will make fun of you

[SignOfZeta]

Aside from the one about adventure games having boards and counters to help the human keep track of thinks (which is debatably wrong, but not totally unheard of) I think pretty much everything in this article has come to pass.

Not that it really went out on a limb to predict anything though...

[Dark Fact]

That little snippet was from 30 years ago? Holy crap, the accuracy in the prediction was astounding! It's almost like the guy had a magic crystal ball and looked 30 years into the future to see people with their Wii's and XBOX 360's.

LOL! Anyone notice that the little handheld game pictured in the article looks just like an etch-a-sketch?

[Black Tiger]

I can't believe how accurate that was, even without going out on a limb.

I think that the boards and counters deal might've been referencing D&D type pen & paper games. In which case, RPG's have fufilled that prophecy with maps and stats.

[Michael Helgeson]

I didn't see anything even remotely resembling kids from the 90ies playing fighting games on a system with cartridges bigger then VHS tapes,or a game system that use a combination of  optical disc and games with credit card sized technology so all in all I'm not impressed,and the the f*ck wants to re-inact Waterloo as a game anyway?

I wonder if that thing was even real to begin with....

[Keranu]

Man I just saw this last night before you posted it, it's really cool. I love the online play part where it shows kids from the future playing a chess-like gaming from around the world. The techno-psychic did a really good job on his predictments.

[Hobo Xiphas]

As long as you don't dwell on the details, yeah.

[GUTS]

Most of that stuff is common sense (oh wow, will computers REALLY be way more powerful and smaller in the future??  No way!) or the guy is ridiculously off base.  Not impressed in the slightest.

[Black Tiger]

Most of that stuff is common sense (oh wow, will computers REALLY be way more powerful and smaller in the future??  No way!) or the guy is ridiculously off base.  Not impressed in the slightest.

Not even with the playing games against people from across the world part?

[Hobo Xiphas]

Not even with the playing games against people from across the world part?

Using what appears to be shortwave radio?  Yeah.

[Black Tiger]

Not even with the playing games against people from across the world part?

Using what appears to be shortwave radio?  Yeah.

That's what the Sega MarkIII modem used.

But if Nostradamus had named the Nintendo Wii and described the launch accurately but said the system would be black, would that have canceled out the actually significant prediction?

[Joe Redifer]

That's what the Sega MarkIII modem used.

I want to see this.  Pictures!!!  Did Quake 3 or Halo 2 ever come out for the Mark III?

[GUTS]

They had phones back then, he could have said "using phone lines" and I would have been impressed.  There's nothing impressive about predicting that people in the future could play against people around the world, it's a logical step.

[SignOfZeta]

Not even with the playing games against people from across the world part?

Using what appears to be shortwave radio?  Yeah.

Perhaps you've never hear of WiFi, mobile phone games, etc.

Don't be a dick and take the wind out of this. It was pretty far fetched 30 years ago to think that darpanet would be public, yet that exact freak occurrence is the only reason a world wide web is here, and not decades off.

[Hobo Xiphas]

Perhaps you've never hear of WiFi, mobile phone games, etc.  Don't be a dick and take the wind out of this.

Wireless Internet still needs a hardline Internet connection to access the wider network, you know.  And mobile phone games are a joke even in countries with those fancy phones.

The whole antenna on a chessboard is still not the worst of the predictions in the image.  The fact that he assumed adventure games still exist as a genre, let alone require paper counters, is the funniest prediction of all.

I enjoy being a dick sometimes, sorry.

That's what the Sega Mark III modem used.

Any details on this hilarious piece of technology?  I didn't know that there was a consumer application of packet radio, ever.