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Push to Talk is a weekly newsletter about the business of making and marketing video games, written by games industry veteran and marketing director Ryan Rigney. Subscribe here for eclectic and spicy interviews and essays in your inbox every Friday. There is a mystery at the heart of Too Much Fun , the new book about the history of the Commodore 64 by the Danish academic and game designer Jesper Juul: Why is the C64—by far the best-selling home computer of the 80s—so often forgotten in video game histories? Some might ask this question as an idle complaint. Why do no C64 games ever show up on “Best games of all time” lists? But in his book, Jesper Juul takes the question more seriously by embracing the academic tradition of media archaeology to dig through the history of video games and prove that—no, actually, historians and writers are bizarrely blind to the impact that the C64 had on games. In example after example, Juul shares examples of books that gloss over the C64 to rush forward with a shortened history of games. It begins with a concise, clean pre-history—pinball machines leading to arcade machines leading to Magnavox and Atari—which all came crashing down in 1983. Then, the story goes, Nintendo revived the industry with the NES and began the games console era. The problem with this version of games history, Juul argues, is that it overemphasizes the “games crash” and erases important connecting links in the chain. “As a researcher or journalist, it is always easier to repeat a well-known story when you want to set the background,” Juul told me in an email. “In the US, that became the story of ‘the crash’ in 1983, which was almost US-only, and also ignored the home computer scene in North America. Remember that Electronic Arts and Activision were making Commodore 64 games during the 1980s!” Despite this, early video games history has often been reduced to a shorthand: “The crash, and then came Nintendo,” Juul says. “That’s just life for you.” But dig into the reality of the C64, and what you’ll find is an astonishing library of games, enjoyed by the over 12 million owners of the C64. Because of how rampant piracy was on the C64, it’s not feasible to determine from sales charts alone what games were most popular among C64 owners. However, Juul offers us a workaround, thanks to the UK magazine ZZap!64 which surveyed its readers monthly about their top five games. By digging through the Zzap!64 archives, Juul was able to reconstruct a sort of Billboard Hot 100 style chart showing games that spent the most months on Zzap!64’s GAMES TOP 30 chart. Many of the expected classics are here ( Gauntlet , Bubble Bobble , Bionic Commando , Ghouls ‘N’ Ghosts , Golden Axe , Smash TV ), but there are conspicuously missing ones as well. SimCity originally appeared on the C64, after all, but is absent from the chart. And where’s its predecessor, Raid on Bungeling Bay , the first game Will Wright ever published? The answer to this is in part explained by the surprising revelation that the C64 had the most published games of any platform prior to MS-DOS in the 90s. Over 5,000 games were released on the C64 over the course of its 12-year lifespan, a phenomenon that Juul has again painstakingly quantified in his book: Juul reports having played hundreds of C64 games in his reporting for the book, so I asked him for his recommendations for anyone new to the platform: PUSH TO TALK: If you had to pick 5 truly “must play” or “iconic” games from C64 library, what would they be? JESPER JUUL: Very hard question! I would say: I can also recommend trying some of the truly weird games like Hover Bovver ( mowing the lawn), Bozo’s Night Out (getting drunk), or Little Computer People . Enter the Imaginaries From the description I’ve given of Too Much Fun thus far, you might get the impression that it’s a simple revisiting of the C64 in the time of its heyday—but it’s actually a much stranger book than that. The animating idea that structures the book is the concept of imaginaries , an idea taken from media archaeology which basically argues that real technologies are constantly influenced by fictional conceptions of how technology might work. From Juul’s book: Wearing a VR headset today, we may imagine ourselves part of a future where we spend most of our time in virtual spaces, but we then often remove the headset after ten minutes. Imaginaries often set up expectations that exceed what a machine can do, but the actual and the imaginary work closely together, and “the transition between imaginary and actual media machines . . . can be almost seamless.” 1 In this book, I take imaginary to mean any imagined concept of a technology’s function, role, or meaning. Imaginaries also shape our interaction with a computer. I’m very enamored with this idea, and the VR example Juul uses is perfect. So much of the VR/AR industry has been chasing that imaginary vision put forth in Ready Player One for the past decade. “Imaginaries are obviously extremely present in games,” Juul told me. “You can see this in hardware, like with the Xbox One and the Kinect, which imagined the Xbox to be the home entertainment centerpiece for watching television and switching channels with voice and gestures, perhaps in turn inspired by Minority Report ? It made business sense, but nobody seemed to want it, so that imagined future did not come to pass.” The meat of Too Much Fun takes this idea and runs with it, examining the imaginaries that have influenced the world’s view of the Commodore 64 over its history. Using the framework of evolving imaginaries impacting the public’s conception of the C64, Juul breaks down the C64’s history into five eras: As an early BASIC computer to be used for mundane family activities and tasks Then as an in-home arcade machine Then as a tool to be broken apart and hacked Then as an aging, outdated piece of hardware that could nonetheless be pushed to compete with newer machines And finally as “a historical machine, whose quirks and limitations no longer represent cutting-edge technology,” but which nonetheless has “a historical style we can use or emulate at will.” Each chapter is interesting in its own right, though chapter three, about the ways hackers found ways to do unintended things with the C64, is the most entertaining. Juul’s own involvement in the Danish “demoparty” scene is catalogued, including with some hilarious on-the-scene photography: Though Too Much Fun is technical and reverent in parts, Juul is also doing original historical reporting, playing and discussing a bunch of games, and sharing photos of wild Danish hacker parties. And in between all that, he keeps surprising you with original bits of data journalism. To sum up this “review” in a phrase: I highly recommend Too Much Fun . It’s both a needed corrective to other history books, and a book in a category all its own. But before I go, there’s one other thing I have to share about it, because I went down a rabbit hole following up on very weird story that Juul mentions in the book. Nintendo, Commodore, and... the Mob? One of the more shocking passages in Too Much Fun comes early on in the book, when Juul casually references a number of business deals that almost came to fruition during the Commodore era. I’ll just quote the book here: The history of Commodore also includes momentous decision points that could have made history wholly different. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak tried to sell their Apple II computer to Commodore for “a few hundred thousand dollars” only to be turned down. Commodore also rejected the offer to distribute VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. It seemed logical that Commodore would license Nintendo’s games, given Commodore’s Japanese connections, and given that many early VIC- 20 games had been developed by Japanese HAL Laboratory, including by later Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. However, in 1982 product manager Michael Tomczyk negotiated such a deal with Nintendo, only to have Tramiel renege on the agreement at the last minute with no explanation. Tomczyk has explained his frustration with Tramiel’s decision, and attributes it to Tramiel not wanting to “insult or offend Bally,” the then-criminal reputation of which Tomczyk confirms, “Some people claim that there were some tough characters running Bally/Midway, and I can verify that.” Nintendo made deals with Atari and Coleco instead. It is easy to second-guess such decisions, of course, but we cannot know how the alternative histories would have played out. —Jesper Juul, Too Much Fun, page 16 (MIT Press review copy) I read this and was like... hold on. Did this guy Tomczyk just strongly imply that Commodore backed out of a deal with Nintendo (probably forever changing video game industry history) because Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel was afraid of the mob? This is the kind of thing an entire book could be written about. For decades, journalists have reported on connections between the Genovese crime family and Bally/Midway (which owned the US distribution rights to Space Invaders and Pac-Man ). This would have been known to Tramiel, who had struck a deal with Bally/Midway to distribute their games. So it’s not outrageous to think that Tramiel would have been hesitant to do anything that would earn the ire of Bally/Midway and its backers. Tramiel—a holocaust survivor who became a business legend—passed away in 2012, but Michael Tomczyk (now age 76) is still active in tech. I reached out to Tomczyk and we connected over the phone. Tomczyk told me that he was present when the Commodore team originally struck a deal with Bally/Midway. He says that the deal was for licensing rights to all Bally/Midway games except Pac-Man (which was licensed to Atari). “My role was to present the VIC-202 2 and show how it would run the games, and then I sat in on the negotiations,” Tomczyk says. He describes what followed as a very quick meeting. “In fact, there was never a contract. It was a letter agreement. Jack told me as we walked out of the meeting, ‘That’s the fastest, biggest business deal I’ve ever done.’” Tomczyk says that the lack of a formal contract wasn’t considered to be an issue. “Some people say that Bally/Midway was linked to organized crime in some way, but I have no comment on that,” he says. “But the people there were... they didn’t worry about contracts. They knew they could enforce it.” Shortly after, Tomczyk says he tried to negotiate a similar deal with Nintendo. His story, as he told it to me: ”What happened is, I negotiated this deal to buy Donkey Kong and all the Nintendo games and put them on Commodore computers. I cleared it with Jack in advance, and I actually did the contract. I invited the Nintendo VP [NOTE: unfortunately, he doesn’t recall the name of the VP] to come to Commodore in California to sign the contract. “He came, he reviewed the contract, and he signed the contract. I then took it into Jack’s office to sign, and Jack looked at me with a straight face and said ‘I’m sorry Michael, I changed my mind.’ I said ‘excuse me?’ and he said ‘I changed my mind. I don’t want to do the deal with Nintendo.’” Tomczyk says he believes that Tramiel backed out of the deal because he didn’t want to insult Bally. Jack was definitely not afraid of the mob, he says. “He was absolutely fearless. Bally was the first arcade game company to license games to Commodore and it would have been bad form to do a deal with their competitor (Nintendo). That was the basis of Jack’s decision.” But at the time, the decision was tough to accept: “I said ‘You know how much face I’m gonna lose in Japan? I negotiated this in good faith and he’s sitting in the next room!’ Jack said ‘I’m sorry, you’re gonna have to go tell him the deal is off.’ So I had to go back with my tail between my legs to the Nintendo Vice President and tell him that Jack had decided to back out of the deal.” How did the VP react? I asked. “I told him what had happened and I apologized. He was very cool. He’s Japanese! He was cool, calm, collected, and very mature about it. He accepted it. We didn’t talk very much after, and he left.” The Nintendo Famicom launched a year later. Its CPU was a modified version of the same MOS Technology 6502 chip used in Commodore’s VIC-20.Sometimes history seems predetermined. And sometimes you can see where it forked. Here Juul is quoting Eric Kluitenberg’s book “On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media.” The VIC-20 was the predecessor machine to the Commodore 64, and a forgotten icon of video game history in its own right. 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Ahmad al-Sharaa, who leads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group leading the new authority in Syria, made the remarks in an interview with Saudi television network Al-Arabiyya. It comes almost a month after a lightning insurgency led by HTS overthrew President Bashar Assad's decades-long rule, ending the country's uprising-turned civil war that started back in 2011. Al-Sharaa said it would take time to hold elections because of the need for Syria's different forces to hold political dialogue and rewrite the country's constitution following five decades of the Assad dynasty's dictatorial rule. 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The volatile tribal district of Kurram witnessed another scene of carnage, death and destruction on 21 November 2024. On this fateful day, a convoy of about 200 vehicles was travelling from Parachinar to Peshawar when at about 1:20 PM, gunmen jumped out of their vehicles and poured deadly gunfire on the travelling vehicles on the road, to extinguish the lives of 40 innocent residents of Parachinar including women and children. The attacked convoy consisted of mostly Shia Muslim members of the community. According to local sources, this attack was in retaliation for a 12 October attack that had left 15 people dead, including two women and a child. No group has so far claimed responsibility, but it is very likely that the banned TTP is behind this atrocity, because it has been quite active in this region in the recent past. State security agencies are either responsible for criminal negligence or have made no efforts to curb the acts of violence in this sensitive area. Since July this year, over 80 people have been killed while travelling by road and the people of the region have protested, demanding peace and security. But the state agencies have so far failed miserably to provide relief to the people of the area. The government now must make it priority number one to secure this region, or else this scourge will most likely spill over and then sectarian outfits could exploit the situation to create tensions across the country Quite oblivious of the plight of these communities, today the federal government and the provincial authorities of KP province are embroiled in a bitter dispute because of the 24th November protest day announced by the PTI. Due to their infighting, both the federal and provincial authorities are least bothered about the security conditions in Kurram or other parts of KP. Government sources tend to express their indignation and condemnation of the acts of terrorism, and promises are made to deal with the terrorists with an iron hand and bring them to justice. But in practice, the poor residents of the areas are left to their own devices when bloodthirsty militants rule the roost. Kurram district is extremely sensitive because of the sectarian divide and its proximity to Afghanistan along with the presence of obscurantist militants of the TTP. So far the government has not been able to control militancy or to settle tribal disputes that explode into tribal vendettas. The government now must make it priority number one to secure this region, or else this scourge will most likely spill over to other areas of the province and then sectarian outfits could exploit the situation to create tensions across the length and breadth of the country. Elements responsible for the latest atrocity must be tracked down and punished and our state agencies must come up with practical plans for the security and safety of the people of Kurram or this violence could engulf the entire country. PBC Condemns Horrific Attack In Lower Kurram, Calls For Immediate Action The resurgence of violence has escalated since the TTP ended a fragile ceasefire agreement with the government in 2022 and vowed to intensify its attacks. The group's activity has added another layer of insecurity in a region already plagued by sectarian and tribal conflicts. The latest atrocity in Kurram is a stark reminder that the country is now at war with itself. Our brave soldiers are losing lives every day, and the enemy is not across the border but within the national boundaries. The hurried departure of the US forces from Afghanistan resulted in the Taliban control of Afghanistan and the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was the only world leader who openly welcomed the Taliban regime in Kabul and rejoiced at their victory declaring “The Taliban have broken the shackles of slavery.” Subsequently the then PTI-led federal government decided to release about 5,000 terrorists and militants of the TTP who had been languishing n Pakistani jails, and allowed them to settle down in the areas of their choice. An outdated and wrong concept of ‘strategic depth’ seems to be guiding our policy planners even today. The attitude and behaviour of the Talban regime in Kabul should be a lesson to scrap the old policies of seeking such ‘strategic depth’ and start with a clean slate regarding our policy towards the Afghan Taliban. The province of KP in the direct line of fire, and facing the brunt of the attacks by the militant forces of obscurantism and sectarianism. Far from the miscalculations of policy-makers, our soldiers on the ground are facing this danger with great courage and determination and almost everyday lives are being lost. So, far the total loss of lives at the hands of the militant forces of the Taliban has been more than the total loss of lives suffered in all the wars with the country’s traditional arch-nemesis India. It is now time to take the war to the enemy, hit them in their safe sanctuaries and nip the evil in the bud – before further damage is done to our state institutions and social fabric. According to the army chief, the army is now paying a price in blood because of the incompetence of political forces. This unfortunate state of affairs since 2021 has not been settled. Beginner’s Guide To Writing About Old Buildings In fact, the blame rests not just on the security establishment and federal governments. The provincial government of KP leaves much to be desired. The Chief Minister of the volatile province is neck deep in promoting the party agenda while criminally neglecting his role as an administrator of the province that is under threat by a bloody insurgency. When he devotes all his time to planning agitations against the federal authorities instead of fighting and curbing militancy and terrorism in his own province, the Chief Minister also becomes guilty of gross neglect.