Did you see this demo in 1985 when it was first shown on dealer demo Amiga 1000s (just before the computer became publicly available)?
I wasn't born until some 16 months after the CES show, so that'd be a "no"
I think it might have been a case of "you had to have been there". It certainly left a lasting impression, when we still all owned 8-bit computers.
I realise it's not impressive compared to what came later, but it's like people who were there for the original Star Wars in the 1970s....the later movies had better special effects, but this one was like nothing that had come before, so you remember it.
As I said, I get that there is some significance to it...it just seems that people's sentimental attachment is a bit wildly out of proportion, to me. Less like
Star Wars, I think (which is still a hell of a film today, and I'll have unkind words for anybody that says differently,) and more like Grateful Dead concerts - certainly there's a lot of legitimate talent on display, and certainly it must have been better yet in person (live shows always are,) but on the other hand there's a tendency for them to grow in the telling, so that they become less
concerts and more epoch-making life-changing experiences...until you pop in a bootleg tape and listen to it and go "well, I haven't achieved nirvana
yet..."
I dunno, that's just my reaction.
