When I was younger I loved to play my Amiga 1200 till the early hours of the morning. Not because I was super cool but because my parents believed a child should develop integrity by having a games console which took staggering amounts of time to load. Who wanted the near instant hits of the Megadrive? I had Frogger (a game which ironically took longer to appear on screen than it actually did to kidnap a frog from the local pond, make it live with you against it's will for several years until it developed Stockholm Syndrome at which point, after some persuasion, it was quite happy to throw itself across the nearest motorway in a mad effort to reach the other side of a river. Albeit a river which it drowned in, if it mistimed its jump from whatever lily pad it was riding on. Who's says computer games are too close to reality?!)
Anyway so I, at the tender age of 16, would toddle off to bed at 6pm to start my Amiga loading for the inevitable gaming session at 1 a.m. (OMG my parents were actually really clever. Buy him a computer that takes ages to load so he goes to bed early?! Genius! More importantly I just used OMG in a sentence. That's embarrassing. I blame my parents).
My point is, if the makers of this video had actually had the foresight to incorporate this kind of technology into the disks back then, it would have made the wait for the game that bit more palatable. Honestly waiting ages for something really average is depressing isn't it? Just ask anyone who has voluntarily read the last four paragraphs in order to get to this video. Fine! Here it is;
How do you pass the time at the early hours of the morning? Well if you're me, you make up slightly exaggerated lies about the loading times of Amiga 1200's. Night all. Night Commodore. Night Frogger.
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