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The people of the Owasawa tribe were not happy. It seemed like sandstone just wasn't durable enough for making control pads with. Their console was undoubtedly the best made, complete with the latest in slate plug-in technology, but the pads were letting it down.
Their nearest rival tribe, the Tamashi, were still using laughably primative granite consoles with highly unreliable stripped bark as the game media of choice. The granite consoles were alright, but they were very heavy, which really put shipping costs up. Still, granite was in abundance and at least that made production cheap. Things had really taken off though last year, since the invention of the wheel.
As it happened, technology was advancing at quite a pace these days. It wasn't that long ago since the leader of the tribe the other side of the Tamra river (Amran Disala, I think he was called) had discovered fire, when he played Mammoth Hunt 2 on his wooden GameStation for too long.
This made it a lot easier for the people to stay warm, and allowed them to eat cooked food, too. It had allowed people a lot more leisure time than they used to get in the olden days, and the gaming industry had really taken off since. Why, even now, just two years after the launch of the coal-powered 'Gahrali 32', there was talk of making a device from this newly named 'copper' substance which had been found last month. Apparantly, this new steam driven device would allow for up to four players at once! There was even talk of replacing the standard vine connection leads with tightly woven mammoth hair, which would be far more durable, yet lightweight at the same time!
But still, as the people of the Tamashi tribe maintained, it was all about the games. They'd been soley responsible for the 'Rockspitter' series, and both of the 'Winter Games' titles, too. They were currently working on 'Solid Rock Gear 2', which was highly tipped to be the release of the year. Most companies were switching to engraved slate for the game storage nowadays, prestripped bark was quicker to produce but it just couldn't take the wear and tear of modern day gaming. Chalk had been tried, but data was far too easily corrupted. Mammoth skin had been used before, too, but it turned out that games on mammoth skin were just to easy for the software pirates to replicate. An interesting idea in the pipeline though, was plaster. If good moulds could be made, it would allow for much more rapid mass production, and hopefully bring gaming to the masses, rather than just the well off.
Yes, it was an exciting time for gaming, no doubt about it.
It would be a crying shame though, if all this technology was lost in some freak storm, and not rediscovered for thousands of years...
Their nearest rival tribe, the Tamashi, were still using laughably primative granite consoles with highly unreliable stripped bark as the game media of choice. The granite consoles were alright, but they were very heavy, which really put shipping costs up. Still, granite was in abundance and at least that made production cheap. Things had really taken off though last year, since the invention of the wheel.
As it happened, technology was advancing at quite a pace these days. It wasn't that long ago since the leader of the tribe the other side of the Tamra river (Amran Disala, I think he was called) had discovered fire, when he played Mammoth Hunt 2 on his wooden GameStation for too long.
This made it a lot easier for the people to stay warm, and allowed them to eat cooked food, too. It had allowed people a lot more leisure time than they used to get in the olden days, and the gaming industry had really taken off since. Why, even now, just two years after the launch of the coal-powered 'Gahrali 32', there was talk of making a device from this newly named 'copper' substance which had been found last month. Apparantly, this new steam driven device would allow for up to four players at once! There was even talk of replacing the standard vine connection leads with tightly woven mammoth hair, which would be far more durable, yet lightweight at the same time!
But still, as the people of the Tamashi tribe maintained, it was all about the games. They'd been soley responsible for the 'Rockspitter' series, and both of the 'Winter Games' titles, too. They were currently working on 'Solid Rock Gear 2', which was highly tipped to be the release of the year. Most companies were switching to engraved slate for the game storage nowadays, prestripped bark was quicker to produce but it just couldn't take the wear and tear of modern day gaming. Chalk had been tried, but data was far too easily corrupted. Mammoth skin had been used before, too, but it turned out that games on mammoth skin were just to easy for the software pirates to replicate. An interesting idea in the pipeline though, was plaster. If good moulds could be made, it would allow for much more rapid mass production, and hopefully bring gaming to the masses, rather than just the well off.
Yes, it was an exciting time for gaming, no doubt about it.
It would be a crying shame though, if all this technology was lost in some freak storm, and not rediscovered for thousands of years...
Ah, but this won as well. It just didn't turn yellow.
Unless there's been some kind of mess up, in which case I'm not gonna complain now ;)
Unless there's been some kind of mess up, in which case I'm not gonna complain now ;)
Well mine won Gad!
You don't say!
And here's a topic I wrote when I was in a slightly 'wierd' mood, a few months ago....
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The people of the Owasawa tribe were not happy. It seemed like sandstone just wasn't durable enough for making control pads with. Their console was undoubtedly the best made, complete with the latest in slate plug-in technology, but the pads were letting it down.
Their nearest rival tribe, the Tamashi, were still using laughably primative granite consoles with highly unreliable stripped bark as the game media of choice. The granite consoles were alright, but they were very heavy, which really put shipping costs up. Still, granite was in abundance and at least that made production cheap. Things had really taken off though last year, since the invention of the wheel.
As it happened, technology was advancing at quite a pace these days. It wasn't that long ago since the leader of the tribe the other side of the Tamra river (Amran Disala, I think he was called) had discovered fire, when he played Mammoth Hunt 2 on his wooden GameStation for too long.
This made it a lot easier for the people to stay warm, and allowed them to eat cooked food, too. It had allowed people a lot more leisure time than they used to get in the olden days, and the gaming industry had really taken off since. Why, even now, just two years after the launch of the coal-powered 'Gahrali 32', there was talk of making a device from this newly named 'copper' substance which had been found last month. Apparantly, this new steam driven device would allow for up to four players at once! There was even talk of replacing the standard vine connection leads with tightly woven mammoth hair, which would be far more durable, yet lightweight at the same time!
But still, as the people of the Tamashi tribe maintained, it was all about the games. They'd been soley responsible for the 'Rockspitter' series, and both of the 'Winter Games' titles, too. They were currently working on 'Solid Rock Gear 2', which was highly tipped to be the release of the year. Most companies were switching to engraved slate for the game storage nowadays, prestripped bark was quicker to produce but it just couldn't take the wear and tear of modern day gaming. Chalk had been tried, but data was far too easily corrupted. Mammoth skin had been used before, too, but it turned out that games on mammoth skin were just to easy for the software pirates to replicate. An interesting idea in the pipeline though, was plaster. If good moulds could be made, it would allow for much more rapid mass production, and hopefully bring gaming to the masses, rather than just the well off.
Yes, it was an exciting time for gaming, no doubt about it.
It would be a crying shame though, if all this technology was lost in some freak storm, and not rediscovered for thousands of years...
Their nearest rival tribe, the Tamashi, were still using laughably primative granite consoles with highly unreliable stripped bark as the game media of choice. The granite consoles were alright, but they were very heavy, which really put shipping costs up. Still, granite was in abundance and at least that made production cheap. Things had really taken off though last year, since the invention of the wheel.
As it happened, technology was advancing at quite a pace these days. It wasn't that long ago since the leader of the tribe the other side of the Tamra river (Amran Disala, I think he was called) had discovered fire, when he played Mammoth Hunt 2 on his wooden GameStation for too long.
This made it a lot easier for the people to stay warm, and allowed them to eat cooked food, too. It had allowed people a lot more leisure time than they used to get in the olden days, and the gaming industry had really taken off since. Why, even now, just two years after the launch of the coal-powered 'Gahrali 32', there was talk of making a device from this newly named 'copper' substance which had been found last month. Apparantly, this new steam driven device would allow for up to four players at once! There was even talk of replacing the standard vine connection leads with tightly woven mammoth hair, which would be far more durable, yet lightweight at the same time!
But still, as the people of the Tamashi tribe maintained, it was all about the games. They'd been soley responsible for the 'Rockspitter' series, and both of the 'Winter Games' titles, too. They were currently working on 'Solid Rock Gear 2', which was highly tipped to be the release of the year. Most companies were switching to engraved slate for the game storage nowadays, prestripped bark was quicker to produce but it just couldn't take the wear and tear of modern day gaming. Chalk had been tried, but data was far too easily corrupted. Mammoth skin had been used before, too, but it turned out that games on mammoth skin were just to easy for the software pirates to replicate. An interesting idea in the pipeline though, was plaster. If good moulds could be made, it would allow for much more rapid mass production, and hopefully bring gaming to the masses, rather than just the well off.
Yes, it was an exciting time for gaming, no doubt about it.
It would be a crying shame though, if all this technology was lost in some freak storm, and not rediscovered for thousands of years...