http://buzzardgames.com/blog The Buzzard Games Blog Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/buzzardgames/~3/qtUpxfMnpDo/ http://buzzardgames.com/blog/press-play-on-tape/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:57:51 +0000 Gareth http://buzzardgames.com/blog/?p=3 Whilst the days of selecting your game from the shelf, placing the cassette in the deck, pressing SHIFT + RUN/STOP and following the on screen instruction to PRESS PLAY ON TAPE before sitting back to marvel at some classic 8-bit <a title="A Celebration of C64 Loading Screens" href="http://www.gamesradar.com/f/a-celebration-of-c64-loading-screens/a-20090811141616826043" target="_blank">artwork</a> accompanied my another <a title="Rob Hubbard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hubbard" target="_blank">Rob Hubbard</a> <a title="Sanxion" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7yJh-NwPY" target="_blank">masterpiece</a> (or going downstairs to make a nice cup of <a title="White, no sugars please!" href="http://www.tea.co.uk/" target="_blank">tea</a>) are long gone, the pre-loader very much lives on with Flash games (all be it with a heavy <a title="Mochi" href="https://www.mochimedia.com/r/b481cf9d06d5a399" target="_blank">advert</a> bias). I wanted to ceate a preloader that captured the fit inducing brilliance of those early loading screens with their multicoloured fast loaders forcing data through video memory... <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UjI57nnYcZSk8ylmK3sHRlKRRTs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UjI57nnYcZSk8ylmK3sHRlKRRTs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UjI57nnYcZSk8ylmK3sHRlKRRTs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UjI57nnYcZSk8ylmK3sHRlKRRTs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/buzzardgames/~4/qtUpxfMnpDo" height="1" width="1"/> http://buzzardgames.com/blog/press-play-on-tape/feed/ 3 http://buzzardgames.com/blog/press-play-on-tape/