I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think 
it's called, with my 3 year old. The music for it is 80s electro, and 
every so often there's a computer graphics section in true 8-bit style.

I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music on the 
extracts. If not, someone has gone to an -awful- lot of trouble to 
resurrect the C64 style. I'm > 90% that's a C64. Nice to see it make a 
modern appearance.


Cheers,
Ian

Ian McCall wrote:

> I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think
> it's called, with my 3 year old. [...]
> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music [...]

What, no screenshot? :-)

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On Mar 2, 8:22 am, Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
> I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think

It's on Nick Junior, "Yo Gabba Gabba". My kids hate it (they love the
WonderPets though!) but I might take a closer look if it's on....

"DanSolo" wrote ...

> On Mar 2, 8:22 am, Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
>> I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think
>
> It's on Nick Junior, "Yo Gabba Gabba". My kids hate it (they love the
> WonderPets though!) but I might take a closer look if it's on....

It comes on at 10:30 AM on weekdays if I read the TV Guide right.
If I read it wrong, "Just Shoot Me". (Another TV show.)
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Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote:
> Ian McCall wrote:
> 
>> I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think
>> it's called, with my 3 year old. [...]
>> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music [...]
> 
> What, no screenshot? :-)
> 

Here are a couple of examples. Not seen it advertised on UK TV yet...

<http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ggrOcBWqHiU&feature=related>
<http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PqjMSNfkU&feature=related>

Andy.

On Mar 2, 3:22 am, Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:
> I'm sitting here watching a newish kids show, Yo Grabba Grabba I think
> it's called, with my 3 year old. The music for it is 80s electro, and
> every so often there's a computer graphics section in true 8-bit style.
>
> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music on the
> extracts. If not, someone has gone to an -awful- lot of trouble to
> resurrect the C64 style. I'm > 90% that's a C64. Nice to see it make a
> modern appearance.
>

I'd rather watch Teletubbies, Barney or a SpongeBob marathon!

>>>>> "IM" == Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> writes:

IM> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music
IM> on the extracts. If not, someone has gone to an -awful- lot of
IM> trouble to resurrect the C64 style. I'm > 90% that's a C64. Nice
IM> to see it make a modern appearance.

Nope, sorry, the colors are off, as are the sounds. The Pitfall
sequence has been made to look like the 2600, and the car jumping on
buildings uses spectrum graphics (plus an added parallax effect). It's
just PC graphics and sounds made to look 8-bit.

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On 3/3/08 2:30 PM, in article p14r6er38r2.fsf@hal.cling.gu.se, "MagerValp"
<MagerValp@cling.gu.se> wrote:

>>>>>> "IM" == Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> writes:
> 
> IM> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music
> IM> on the extracts. If not, someone has gone to an -awful- lot of
> IM> trouble to resurrect the C64 style. I'm > 90% that's a C64. Nice
> IM> to see it make a modern appearance.
> 
> Nope, sorry, the colors are off, as are the sounds. The Pitfall
> sequence has been made to look like the 2600, and the car jumping on
> buildings uses spectrum graphics (plus an added parallax effect). It's
> just PC graphics and sounds made to look 8-bit.

I didn't see that in the clips linked to.
Then again, it was very painful to watch and after a while I started moving
the pointer through the movie trying to catch a glimpse of what the OP was
talking about, so I would not have to suffer any longer.

I get enough of this show when my 3-yr-old daughter watches it... and I'm
only hearing it.

"MagerValp" wrote ...
>>>>>> "IM" == Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> writes:
>
> IM> I'm -sure- that's a Commodore 64 doing the sprites and the music
> IM> on the extracts. If not, someone has gone to an -awful- lot of
> IM> trouble to resurrect the C64 style. I'm > 90% that's a C64. Nice
> IM> to see it make a modern appearance.
>
> Nope, sorry, the colors are off, as are the sounds. The Pitfall
> sequence has been made to look like the 2600, and the car jumping on
> buildings uses spectrum graphics (plus an added parallax effect). It's
> just PC graphics and sounds made to look 8-bit.

I watched about 15 minutes of Yo Gabba Gabba! today.  Geeze, I need to get a 
life!  I didn't see or hear anything that reminded me of the C64.

Some of the music sounded like it included synthesizer effects, but it 
sounded more like a professional synthesizer than a SID.  A Yamaha maybe?
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