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   From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   math_guy wrote:   
   > On Nov 7, 1:56 pm, Scott H  wrote:   
   >> But did you go around arcades making mental notes of how many sprites/   
   >> layers/colors were on screen so that when the Genesis hit TRU you   
   >> could immediately compare the two down to every little nuance?   
   >   
   > Let me answer this with another question: if you heard your favorite   
   > song of all time on the radio, would you be able to tell if it had   
   > been remixed?  Of course you would!  You needn't have made mental   
   > notes about it; you've just heard it so many times that you've   
   > unconsciously memorized every detail.   
      
   This is a simplified allegory that I will of course agree with.  I   
   wouldn't, off the cuff, be able to tell you what instruments they   
   changed, what they synthesized, and which members of the band were   
   present for the same recording session.  The first time I listened to   
   the song I might have picked up on one or two differences, but my lack   
   of experience with music industry technology would limit the discussion.   
     Do you see the difference?   
      
   > It's the same deal with games: if you spend hour after hour in front   
   > of a cabinet with your eyes two feet away from a CRT screen, you'll   
   > start to remember things about it that others may consider minutia.   
   >   
   > Sean   
      
   Like I said, I did notice things, but in my experience the ability to   
   articulate those things, much less make a comprehensive list of changes,   
   wasn't granted to the general public until much later than 1989.  You   
   are correct in asserting that people always discussed differences, but I   
   guarantee that discussion was ill-informed in all but the most dedicated   
   arcade gamer groups.  How can I guarantee that?  Because technical   
   discussions are still ill-informed today, even in this group.  It's   
   taken me the better part of a decade to weed through the hype and jargon   
   and come up with any sort of sensible fact sheets for consoles.  Even   
   today you will see different spec sheets on every web page you go to,   
   and most of them are at least partially incorrect.   
      
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   Scott   
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