Nostalgia indeed. In the Windows edition, you could write your own screen savers as a DLL and run them along with the rest; I wrote 3 or 4. Was quite proud of my kaleidoscope, it would take any BMP and use a randomised portion of it to display. Fun stuff.
I most likely wasn't alive when this was made. :(
Johnny Castaway My dad used to show me johnny castaway as a really little kid. I don't remember much because I was super young, but from what he says I would just sit and watch...
I remember when my friend's dad took us with him to Egghead software (an actual brick and mortar store dedicated to buying and selling software) and bought a screensaver package (After Dark I think?). After he installed it, I remember sitting at their computer just watching the man mow the lawn. It was funner than most games.
My wife worked for Egghead back in college. She ended up doing a short-time job as phone support for Sierra. Wanna talk gamergate? She was a girl, so they put her on the flying toasters. Yep. That's right. My wife, who beat Leisure Suit Larry at the age of 9, who mapped all of Dragon Quest on quadrille, got to support screen savers because she was a girl.
Wow, this brings me back. Who wants to play some One Must Fall?
ME! Although I was playing that game close to ten years after it was released... Never played more than the demo of the sequel. I've heard it wasn't very good. If it came out on Steam I'd probably pick it up.
It was released as freeware over ten years ago as a promotion for the sequel, so you can download the full thing guilt free and play it well now!
My father had ultimate contempt for screen savers. Also video games, also graphics, but I digress. He argued that the amount of static graphics necessary was well beyond what anyone would ever encounter. Funny thing: when plasmas hit the scene they'd burn in within 2 hours. It was miserable. The cheaper the plasma, the faster the burn-in. Rental companies would have to blast white at them for a week for every two day rental.
Wait i dont understand is that pacman game burned in like that or is that some camera exposure non-sense? If it's the former WOW. We owned some stand up arcades that my dad some how got (they all were half broken, I think my dad got them doing some person's driveway or something) and They never achieved that amount of burn in, that's some decades level white out there. I also have a heavy disdain for screensavers, I mostly feel like monitors can be turned off when not in use. But then again I own a plasma tv too ....
They can be totally cool tho, bruh: edit: why the fuck is it in vertical. Why the fuck isn't there an easy way to post videos quickly. Anyways it's a screensaver that has arcade games running in an emulator. You can press a button and start playing them. IT'S COOL, I promise, it looks like a CRTV and stuff, I wish I could just FUCKING SHOW YOU.