🕹 The birth of the arcade fighter genre, songs crashing hard drives, and more spying from Meta - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-19

By goz

Street Fighter wasn’t that good of a game, but Street Fighter II was amazing

By the end of the 80s, arcades were dying. I’d still seek them out though, and I remember the day I first played Street Fighter II. It was amazing because even my girlfriend like to play it, and she doesn’t play video games. This past week was the 35th anniversary of the release of Street Fighter. That game didn’t do very well and it wasn’t very good, but it did get us to Street Fighter II and the birth of the arcade fighting games.

Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty, had the power to crash laptops

In the mid 90s, certain laptops with certain hard drives would crash when Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson was played. In fact, the song didn’t even need to be played on the laptop, it could be play by something else near the laptop and the laptop would crash. Unfortunately, no one knows the make or model of the laptops or hard drives to test this issues.

I wonder if there were other songs that would crash hard drives.

Yet even more reason to not install Instagram or Facebook on your iPhone

On the iPhone, apps can send links that you click on to other browsers on your phone or show them with an in-app browser. The in-app browser is quicker and nicer, but it comes with a dark side. Instagram and Facebook have been injecting javascript into the page to track you and more. I guess that’s one way of bypassing Apple’s tracking rules.

And me, being the hypocrite I am, does have the Instagram app installed, but I use FB through an incognito browser tab.

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