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This. I remember playing a Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM game with tiny little clips of FMV, and feeling like this was the future.

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How about Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video on the Windows 95 CD? Sometimes when I see articles about viral videos and views I wonder where that video would rank if we had the capability to track its plays.

I mean, more recently there was that whole fiasco where Apple downloaded a new U2 song onto everybody's iPhones and made its users very angry.

Hard to believe it, but that was over a decade ago already.

I logged into my old Apple account for the first time since 2013 yesterday and I was like "Why do I have a U2 album?" and then I was like "Ohhh..."

The entire album "Songs of Innocence" was forced onto everyone's iPhone, whether they wanted it or not. Apple thought they were doing everyone a favor. When some people deleted it from their iPhones, it came back on its own.

"You're going to listen to this U2 album, and you're going to like it!" -- Tim Apple

What was the line at the end of that? "Did you try the fish?" or something like that right? Man, brings back some memories.

Recently I had a flashback to a similar video on one of the MSDN CDs called "Studs from Microsoft". Studs, for those who weren't in the USA at the time, was a sort of dating game show in which two improbably attractive men each dated the same three improbably attractive women. The men are then quizzed on what the women thought of their dates and of the men, with the potential grand prize being a dream date with your preferred girl of the three. But that wasn't the point, the real entertainment value was all the ribald sexual talk in the questions and answers.

Studs from Microsoft was a parody of this format, with the "studs" replaced by Microsoft programming nerds, from Seattle area sketch comedy show Almost Live!. It is also notable for featuring a pre-Science-Guy Bill Nye.

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

Ha, I was going to say that. I think it was like 1992 and we got a packard bell for Christmas and it came with a stack of shareware CDs. 2mhz and 2MB of ram I believe. There was some kind of Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM point 'n click type game that had a bunch of FMVs. The whole family would gather around (sometimes the neighbors included) and we'd all oodle over the "graphics".

Definitely not 2Mhz, maybe 20 or 25Mhz? 33mhz was also common in that time frame. Even the original PC from 1981 ran at 4.77mhz.

I'm assuming it's Sherlock Holmes and the case of the rose tattoo! What a brilliant game.

Believe it or not, thanks to ScummVM being in the iOS/iPad OS App Store now, I have actually played that game on my iPad. You'd be amazed at how well it's held up. It looks really good on an iPad, and the point and click nature of it fits touchscreens perfectly.

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