The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[norland2424]

That'd make one hell of a photoshop.

[ItsOver]

"Have they put out a missing elderly alert for crazy uncle Hoagie, yet?  Things just haven't been the same since daddy Art went for smokes.  Step-daddy Noory is so stupid and boring."

[Dr. MD MD]

"Have they put out a missing elderly alert for crazy uncle Hoagie, yet?  Things just haven't been the same since daddy Art went for smokes.  Step-daddy Noory is so stupid and boring."

It's just a holiday, baby. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIW8iUlehA

P.S. Anyone know the name of the video game he's playing?

[Dyna-X]

P.S. Anyone know the name of the video game he's playing?

Super Road Champions by Model Racing (1978)

[Dr. MD MD]

Super Road Champions by Model Racing (1978)

Weird. I can't find a ROM for it. It must be a super rare cabinet.

[albrecht]

"Have they put out a missing elderly alert for crazy uncle Hoagie, yet?  Things just haven't been the same since daddy Art went for smokes.  Step-daddy Noory is so stupid and boring."

Ha! If anyone qualifies for a "Silver Alert" it is RCH! Especially during this cold-snap. I doubt acrylic, or glass, domes would protect him and his car, with the make-shift, homemade plates, is no place to sleep in this weather!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Alert

[Dr. MD MD]

Even for it's predecessor this is all I could find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ral3EWh6rus

[zeebo]

P.S. Anyone know the name of the video game he's playing?

This begs the question:  Why didn't Hoagie ever have a classic arcade game / pinball show?  I mean tell me all that cultural assimilation of space invaders and asteroids and moon patrols wasn't part of some subtle e.t./military disclosure program!

[Dr. MD MD]

This begs the question:  Why didn't Hoagie ever have a classic arcade game / pinball show?  I mean tell me all that cultural assimilation of space invaders and asteroids and moon patrols wasn't part of some subtle e.t./military disclosure program!

Yes, the US Army actually hired Atari to make them a tank sim after playing Battlezone...and there's also the urban legend of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXSr8jjpVk

[Dr. MD MD]

Oh yeah, and the Army also made this as a recruitment (brainwashing) tool about a decade ago. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFc36ysBZ0A

[norland2424]

Oh yeah, and the Army also made this as a recruitment (brainwashing) tool about a decade ago. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFc36ysBZ0A

yea no one took this game serious lol

[Dr. MD MD]

yea no one took this game serious lol

Oh, people took it plenty serious alright. It generated a number of sequels and a bunch of academic studies have been done about it. Also, it worked. Recruitment went up.

Don't believe me? Here, peruse the Wikipedia page yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Army

[norland2424]

Oh, people took it plenty serious alright. It generated a number of sequels and a bunch of academic studies have been done about it. Also, it worked. Recruitment went up.

Don't believe me? Here, peruse the Wikipedia page yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Army

you should look up operation flashpoint and arma, that did more then americas army

[Dr. MD MD]

you should look up operation flashpoint and arma, that did more then americas army

What are they?

[norland2424]

What are they?

military sim games that came out around America army, the military even uses it to train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdCWCjb_Lw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhIBjSOtLQc

[norland2424]

what the actual mil sim software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-wOYH_4Hwk

[Dr. MD MD]

military sim games that came out around America army, the military even uses it to train

Cool! I think some of those were available for the original xbox. I'm going to have to check them out. I picked up a copy of America's Army a while back more out of historical curiosity and still haven't put it in yet.

P.S. Apparently those games were all based on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6Vz9iHZq0

[pate]

It's just a holiday, baby. 

mmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erG5rgNYSdk

I git KahnFused

#TWOexlamationCOMMApoint

2wit:

...Emergency GC.

...axe for a fiend...

[starrmtn001]

iam kind of envisioning hoagie as the old man from Old Man and the Sea

Hmmm.  Now that you mention it, he does kinda remind me of Spencer Tracy.

[pate]

I half-fired off a Drama-Mater req to those NAASA'er

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0L905nRiY

Nineteen point fife crudité's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvoKIs7xKD4

\CRY/

ediot: #MilAppRetro

[pate]

I half-fired off a Drama-Mater req to those NAASA'er

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0L905nRiY

Nineteen point fife crudité's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvoKIs7xKD4

\CRY/

ediot: #MilAppRetro

Thrice, vulgar, /rep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opuncZaVJVo

[Jackstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2LWWORoiM


I dedicate this song to Hoagland.

Also, I would like some forum flair to indicate that only he and I know, just how tragic it is that he is not allowed to be on the air and talking right now. It's a national embarrassment.

Thanks in advance.

[Dr. MD MD]

It's a national embarrassment.

He's letting Trump down. 

[norland2424]

He's letting Trump down. 

hoagie hates trump remeber, and somehow was saying that bernie would win .

[Dr. MD MD]

hoagie hates trump remeber, and somehow was saying that bernie would win .

I was being sardonic but yes, Hoagie was very smitten with Bernie over the birdie incident. He was really feelin the Bern that night. 

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Weird. I can't find a ROM for it. It must be a super rare cabinet.

Extremely rare and not very popular. A quick search brought me here: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=S&type= 
which led to this:  http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13220

Edit: I remember seeing those at the time at the local bowling alley though. They never got much play when I was there.

Cool site for the Vid, pinball, jukebox collectors though. 

[Dr. MD MD]

Extremely rare and not very popular. A quick search brought me here: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_list.php?letter=S&type= 
which led to this:  http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13220

Edit: I remember seeing those at the time at the local bowling alley though. They never got much play when I was there.

Cool site for the Vid, pinball, jukebox collectors though. 

It's too bad. It looks like kind of a fun game. I can only hope that someone who owns one of these cabs will do the right thing and upload the ROM for posterity. 

[akwilly]

Darren is doing an "imagining" panel on wolfmans show right now.

[zeebo]

Yes, the US Army actually hired Atari to make them a tank sim after playing Battlezone...and there's also the urban legend of this:

Thanks for the link.  I hadn't heard of this game until I read this book called "Armada", which mentions it, along with a whole slew of later games, books, & movies that according to the fictional but plausible storyline had in a sense prepared or even trained civilians for an upcoming E.T. battle.  It was kind of a Last Starfighter story. 

Unfortunately I can't recommend this book since I thought it failed on several levels, but anyone who's interested in the world of 80's games and related pop culture should check out his earlier novel "Ready Player One" which is a real kick.  (Supposedly a movie's coming out in a year or so.)

[trostol]

Darren is doing an "imagining" panel on wolfmans show right now.

ugh..actually thats a double ugh