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Unusual Suspects (The X-Files) - S05E01 - possible emulator sighting
#338486 - 04/02/15 05:10 AM
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Have been re-watching The X-Files lately...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_Suspects
So, airdate for this episode is November 16, 1997... takes place at a computer and electronics show in Baltimore in 1989. Episode is told in flashbacks, mainly from the point of view of Byers (Bruce Harwood).
... That said, when Byers flashes back to the computer and electronic show, he starts the story explaining how he's a FCC representative and they have a booth there. His partner helping to run the booth is sitting at a desktop computer, and the guy's playing Dig-Dug for a good portion of the episode. And it looks fairly legit.
It's definitely not the PC Booter version.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/dig-dug/screenshots
So if I had to guess...
a. it could be an emulator. MAME or something else (M-Ulator? Replay?) 
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/game_group.php?id=digdug#digdugat1
b. it could be a port or a remake, such as Microsoft Return of Arcade. It's definitely full-screen, not windowed, but I think the Microsoft games permitted that. The Wikipedia article on this Microsoft program states it is a remake...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Arcade
c. it could be stock footage played through the computer monitor via special effects.
If I had to guess... I would say b.
Still, while the Wikipedia article says they went to great effort to make "Unusual Suspects" accurate to 1989... looks like they messed up here. 
We've probably talked about this before long ago at MAME.net...
- Stiletto
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Re: Unusual Suspects (The X-Files) - S05E01 - possible emulator sighting
[Re: Stiletto]
#338488 - 04/02/15 05:26 AM
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> Have been re-watching The X-Files lately...
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Does it ever make you want to cunt punt Scully when you marathon run the eps for keeping on with her skeptical whining no matter how many dozens of fucked up things she's seen. Period not question mark.
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Since you brought it up...
[Re: Stiletto]
#338490 - 04/02/15 06:07 AM
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Re: Since you brought it up...
[Re: Bad A Billy]
#338492 - 04/02/15 06:26 AM
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Re: Unusual Suspects (The X-Files) - S05E01 - possible emulator sighting
[Re: Stiletto]
#338500 - 04/02/15 03:51 PM
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> c. it could be stock footage played through the computer monitor via special effects.
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My guess would be C. Computer monitors on TV are almost never "live" images. If the refresh rate of the monitor is not carefully synced to the frame rate of the camera recording the scene, you get weird strobing effects. The original footage could have come from almost anywhere (emulator, PC port, console port, even the original arcade machine).
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