From the omni-dimensional communications center known as The Hub, Dave and his computer companion VALFrom the omni-dimensional communications center known as The Hub, Dave and his computer companion VALFrom the omni-dimensional communications center known as The Hub, Dave and his computer companion VAL
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- TriviaThe video game footage for each episode took about two weeks to record.
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Legendary show
Unprecedented, both before and since. Literally nothing else like it has ever existed. Was it absolutely hilarious? Not really, though it had its moments. Did it have any sort of plot? Nope. Was it the most graphically brilliant show? Come on, it was G4, in 2002, about MMOs in the era of Everquest and Ultima...this was before the likes of Attack of the Show and even slightly before X-Play. Did you know there was a G4 before X-Play? Probably not. There was even a Cheaters. Nope, not that Cheaters. This was a show specifically about various cheat codes, hacks, and exploits in different games of the 90s and early 00s. But like most of the early G4 shows, they have since (tragically) been lost to time.
But, I remember.
No, what makes this show legendary is that it is essentially a deep dive into pretty much every MMO pre-WoW, before Blizzard came along and took over the MMO scene. It's hard to imagine, but before 10,000,000 people had active WoW accounts, there was a whole world of smaller, less graphically detailed online worlds out there, filled with boring side quests and generic mobs, with bustling communities many considered family.
Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, Ultima Online 2, Sims Online, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies...to name a few.
Portal is, more or less, a sketch comedy show that uses these old-school MMOs for its sets. It visits pretty much all of them at some point, giving you an inside look into the very early days of MMOs...which is, put simply, splendid.
Some day, video game historians will be a thing (I mean, they already are, but they do it for fun. Give it another 20 years, and there will be entire college classes dedicated to it). They will have to be 'very' dedicated into digging up archival footage of old games, but it will happen, and when that day comes, Portal will be the equivalent of a raid dungeon legendary boss treasure cove of information.
Only in the last few years have most of the episodes made their way back onto Youtube, all thanks to a single user who is based af. If you have any sort of interest in video game history, especially in terms of MMOs, this literally is as good as it gets.
This show started as an entertaining show for kids, but is now the equivalent of a documentary for early video games. If that sort of thing interests you at all, then you are in for a treat.
Disclaimer: Remember, graphics sucked back then. These worlds are not full of Orgrimmars and Ironforges. Keep that in mind, and you're sure to love it just as much as I did/do.
But, I remember.
No, what makes this show legendary is that it is essentially a deep dive into pretty much every MMO pre-WoW, before Blizzard came along and took over the MMO scene. It's hard to imagine, but before 10,000,000 people had active WoW accounts, there was a whole world of smaller, less graphically detailed online worlds out there, filled with boring side quests and generic mobs, with bustling communities many considered family.
Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, Ultima Online 2, Sims Online, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies...to name a few.
Portal is, more or less, a sketch comedy show that uses these old-school MMOs for its sets. It visits pretty much all of them at some point, giving you an inside look into the very early days of MMOs...which is, put simply, splendid.
Some day, video game historians will be a thing (I mean, they already are, but they do it for fun. Give it another 20 years, and there will be entire college classes dedicated to it). They will have to be 'very' dedicated into digging up archival footage of old games, but it will happen, and when that day comes, Portal will be the equivalent of a raid dungeon legendary boss treasure cove of information.
Only in the last few years have most of the episodes made their way back onto Youtube, all thanks to a single user who is based af. If you have any sort of interest in video game history, especially in terms of MMOs, this literally is as good as it gets.
This show started as an entertaining show for kids, but is now the equivalent of a documentary for early video games. If that sort of thing interests you at all, then you are in for a treat.
Disclaimer: Remember, graphics sucked back then. These worlds are not full of Orgrimmars and Ironforges. Keep that in mind, and you're sure to love it just as much as I did/do.
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- Sep 14, 2023
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