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LGR Tech Tales - Hi Tech Expressions (Patreon)

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2016-12-14 20:15:53
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2021-03

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Since it's December, I figured I'd do somewhat of a holiday-themed Tech Tales! This episode is an expansion of my review of Thoughtware's Jingle Disk from a couple years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUnb-AoFyTY

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LGR Tech Tales - Hi Tech Expressions

This episode covers the origin and demise of Hi-Tech Expressions/Thoughtware, from Jingle Disk to Megaman. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

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Anonymous

This is a wonderful Christmas gift, LGR! Thank you! One of my very first computer games happened to be Ernie's Big Splash. I still think back to it whenever I can "see" the procedurally generated elements of modern games repeat themselves. You had to get Ernie's rubber ducky from point A to point B, like the water in a game of Pipe. Each pipe piece was a muppet or Sesame Street character that would animate in a funny way and move the ducky along, in one direction and out another. My very first Megaman game was the real Megaman 3, so I knew what the series was supposed to be. Thanks to re-releases, collections, and other means, I've tried the original series(except 8). I still have a soft-spot for those Hi-Tech Megamans. I didn't have nearly as much disposable income back then as I do now so if I had a game, doggone it, I was going to get my money's worth out of it! I might be one of the few who ever beat them, or who would be willing to speed run them, today. They were tricky, they were difficult, they were punishing, but they could still be solved, and I'm glad I finished them. If the developer and all their IP rights dissolved in 1999, does this mean -I- can make an HD remake of Ernie's Big Splash?!?! Or Remake Hi-Tech Megaman? I wanna see a suped-up Shark Man! It's possible I'm overestimating the demand for such a product, though. To: Satan, From: Santa - Someone is now writing a screenplay. Or not. It practically writes itself. Casting has already begun since you released this video.

Anonymous

I remember the original Jingle Disk video, interesting to get a follow-up! Knowing that they were responsible for that *terrible* PC Mega Man port explains why they went out of business.

Lindsay Michelle

Oh, Hi Tech Expressions, we hardly knew thee. Even under different company names. Seems like they were only moderately popular at best. BTW, really liking the wood-panel backgrounds of this video. It was even a festive red or green at some parts! I like that background; I hope you keep it to use in future videos, Christmas related or not! :)

Anonymous

I love Tech Tales ... I have MagicLink thanks to an Tech Tales episode.

LazyGameReviews
>>3295355

You're quite welcome, glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, I do wonder what happened to the rights to some of their games. I assume they mostly just went back to the companies they were licensed from to begin with. Eg., Children's Workshop, Disney, Capcom etc

Anonymous

Such a great watch. It's such a weird pivot, from corporate training software, to cards and low-rent games. Even the rights is such a weird one - most of the time it gets wrangled up in so many parties, but they were dissolved. I presume that if not for the fact they're all (more or less) licensed titles, technically, that'd put them in the public domain? So weird. And an interesting follow-up indeed!

Anonymous

Your Tech Tales series was one of the main reasons I started YT myself :D Thanks for another great watch mate!

LazyGameReviews
>>3300406

Thanks, Rob! And yeah, as far as I can tell the licensed rights all just defaulted back to the original companies. There really was hardly *anything* of value of Hi-Tech Entertainment by the end.

Runefox

As a kid, I was mostly exposed to their products via the NES, so I came to associate their name with edutainment. It wouldn't be until years later that I'd find Mega Man for DOS and other questionable pieces of software with their name on it. Such a unique transformation from Thoughtware to Hi-Tech Expressions... I wonder what would have happened if management had rejected the holiday disk and wound up staying in the corporate training business? Certainly, many of those PC releases would never have seen the light of day. I always love this series, and I always will. The amount of care and research lend it a true documentary format, and I always find that no matter how familiar I am with a subject, I learn something new, anyway. Thanks for another good one!

Anonymous

I love your Tech Tales videos! If there name and trademarks were dissolved I wonder if that means anyone can use the name and logos.

Anonymous

Great job as always Clint. Way to keep it engaging and interesting. I think SSI would be an interesting company to cover. (This is my annual wink, wink, nudge, nudge about covering CyClones...)

Anonymous

Awesome work Mr Clint! Out of those games, there was a version of Hunt for the Red October for the GameBoy, made by HiTech, which is actually good; I prefer it over the NES version. I did notice Fun House though, I had NO idea that Fun House had an NES game, plus I had no idea that Fun House was known in the US, as it's a UK Kid's game show that I used to watch back in '89! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dWHRYJFGE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dWHRYJFGE</a>

Anonymous

I suggest old atari no not infogrames atari for a tech tales atari used to be king but now they are on the bottom.