PlayCable splash screen welcomes users ready to enter the game streaming age
Splash screen for PlayCable, a system to deliver Intellivision video games via Cable TV, 1983
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Cool, thanks William. I’m trying to track down a colour version of the image (and any others of the PlayCable menu program) to enhance the technical description I maintain over on AtariAge (https://atariage.com/forums/topic/284228-playcable-research-and-development/). This information will be a great help.
Cheers
decle
Could you tell me the original source of this photo please?
Hi, the Playcable splash screen image comes from the magazine Video Games, “Playing Games with Cable”, by David Smith, photo by Rob Gray, pgs. 73 – 75, 89, Vol. 1 Num. 5, Feb 1983.
I copied that information right out of the source area of the Inty article on my site, located at the last page of every entry on The Dot Eaters. I realize that for most articles here it’s a big fat wad of text, but for future reference you can find *most* information cited there… dates, sales figures, other tid bits I don’t generally see in other video game history articles, that sort of thing. FYI, I’m in the process of re-arranging these blocks of citations so that they are generally put under the headings through the articles they’re from, listing the headlines in the order they fall in the articles, so that when you search through the citations they generally match up to the cited info in the article…. I’m not sure that I’m making sense at this point, but you can see an example of this in the citations area at the end of the Atari 2600 article. Of course, like everything else at The Dot Eaters, this improvement to the citation listings is moving sloooow. As you can imagine, for the larger articles like the 2600 or here in the Intellivision entry, it’s a laborious process.
Of course, if you guys let me know it helps out by clamouring for more, that certainly lights a fire under me to get it done more quickly!
Later, and thanks for reading the articles here at The Dot Eaters!