Stamps Back - New Moleman docu on the birth of the Hungarian scene
category: general [glöplog]
Youtube premier on 30th december 7pm (GMT+1):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUqn1OPxtmE
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FprnuXHL-MU
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From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to US BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity, Stamps Back tells the story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene.
More info at stampsback.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUqn1OPxtmE
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FprnuXHL-MU
Spread the word.
From Commodore 64s smuggled across the Iron Curtain to cracked games on cassette tapes sold at flea markets, floppy disk swapping via postal mail, hacked phone booths connected to US BBSes, and copy parties packed to capacity, Stamps Back tells the story of how teenagers in Hungary ignited a computing revolution in the 1980s with illegally copied video games from the West, and began the Hungarian demoscene.
More info at stampsback.com
You can now watch the previous episodes of Moleman as well at https://stampsback.com/ like Moleman 2 about the demoscene and Moleman 4 about game development behind the Iron Curtain.
Moleman 4 – Longplay is the inspiring story of Hungarian video game development behind the Iron Curtain and explores the untold stories behind world-famous games like The Last Ninja, Impossible Mission II, Ecco the Dolphin and more, while showing how their dedicated developers overcame the hard circumstances they faced living in a socialist country still under Soviet pressure.
Smuggled in computers, surprised Commodore, outfoxed Nintendo, tricked SEGA, revolutionary game engines, groundbreaking ideas. A games software outfit that dodged the limelight and led the world from behind the Iron Curtain.
Moleman 4 – Longplay is the inspiring story of Hungarian video game development behind the Iron Curtain and explores the untold stories behind world-famous games like The Last Ninja, Impossible Mission II, Ecco the Dolphin and more, while showing how their dedicated developers overcame the hard circumstances they faced living in a socialist country still under Soviet pressure.
Smuggled in computers, surprised Commodore, outfoxed Nintendo, tricked SEGA, revolutionary game engines, groundbreaking ideas. A games software outfit that dodged the limelight and led the world from behind the Iron Curtain.
Youtube fucked up a bit the premier as it turned out subtitles can't be turned on during the premier streaming. Now the premier is over, you can watch the film with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUqn1OPxtmE
This needs to be promoted even more it's a great docu!
Great stuff, all of them!
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This needs to be promoted even more it's a great docu!
Thanks! As we don't have any marketing budget we rely on the community. Please spread the word.
That was super interesting, thanks so much. I grew up behind a C64 and spent a bit of time doing some coding and lame swapping in the early 90s but I was adjacent to some local Dutch C64 sceners that were pretty well-known. It was really fun to finally be able to connect some names to faces (not just Faces members, to be clear :)).
Very, very nice documentary, it was a pleasure to watch. Thanks so much!
yeah this was cool and well produced, learned a lot about the earlier hungarian scene.
An article with an interview on Stamps Back for German speaking fellows:
https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/demoszene/stamps-back-eine-technologische-revolution-durch-262744.html
https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/demoszene/stamps-back-eine-technologische-revolution-durch-262744.html