Vintage Chemistry Computer Game - Periodic Table of Videos

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[@periodicvideos]

Don't miss the second video on Computerphile: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKTOf5ShabmYiNU

[@marvinschmoll2648]

Periodic Videos Of course we won't! Thank you for the great Video. ;)

[@Muck006]

But but but ... where is the "Any" key? That was a real question someone phoned a computer help line for in these days ... just like "the computer doesnt want to read my floppy ... after I put it into the typewriter to label it" OR "what is the foot pedal {the mouse} for?"

[@thecrudelab3204]

Periodic Videos Wow I bet that if you make a copy of this with better graphics you can make millions selling them to schools!!!

[@firefox5926]

could you do the miller urey experiment?

[@SimonZerafa]

Has anyone tried to locate the two programmers of this game to see what they are up to now? :-)

[@AgentWaltonSimons]

"It's only time I've earned real cash for the university" made me laugh far more than it probably should have

[@yishaqdavid2029]

Yeah lol

[@KairuHakubi]

It needed money at the time, it was missing an R

[@agbook2007]

Kiaru, you caught that, too! :D

[@Dimik20]

*Crys in academic*

[@poke548]

"I have to press the any key" and they say Martin can't keep up with jokes.

[@CuriousMoth]

We have to press the any key.

[@SchutzmarkeGMBH]

1995 Simpsons refferece. Almost as ancient as the game

[@brandon3872]

CuriousMoth Where's the any key? 😉

[@jamesjross]

I'm pretty sure the prof said that as a joke... its so hard to tell with him sometimes. He was joking wasn't he?

[@dm.6133]

Where's the any key? Uhmm I see ESC, CATARL and Pig-Up

[@DarkShroom]

@@SchutzmarkeGMBH i doubt he watched the simpsons it was a common joke

[@leooglecevac4586]

The way the professor said “Multiple Choice” was absolutely perfect 😂

[@medcologytutorials2636]

The professor is someone who can explain anything with such ease and simplicity. It's always a joy to hear him on the periodic table videos and I am happy we are having videos uploaded with less gaps between them.😊

[@SuperCrazyfin]

Isn't he the guy that said: "I delete games from my computer."

[@periodicvideos]

Not CHEMISTY games!

[@dlatua]

....and game deleted.

[@Petertronic]

I'm sure he will allow a Chemistry "Edutainment" game!

[@drvir]

Periodic Videos the professor needs to Dive into the world of computer games. I bet once he tries them he'll become a let's player and start another KZbin channel for that purpose

[@baronDioxid]

twitch.tv/sir_martyn

[@johnchancey3941]

Professor: "Let's see... after plutonium is.... " "Drat! Wrong necktie!" (Deleted scene, probably)

[@munjee2]

" We have to press the any key " , I love sir martyn

[@dichebach]

I want to remake this on Unreal Engine! Dynamic 3D models of elements and molecules! Catalytic boss fights! Leveling up to higher electron shells!

[@Alexander_Grant]

This is awesome, going back and playing some game from 15 years ago is nostalgic for me, I can't imagine how it must have felt to see that pop up for the professor. Love to see software like this saved, even if it is just a game, there's no telling how much software like this has been lost forever.

[@Quasihamster]

"30 years ago [...] they sold the discs for the computer came." That hits hard. Discs. 30 years ago. I still remember how they were the leatest and greatest...

[@DevonReviewer]

"I hired two school boys for the summer"..... now there's a phrase that you don't hear often these days....

[@Artemis-zl5cs]

Damnit you beat me to it

[@lmackenzie89]

The most ambitious crossover of 2018

[@Markle2k]

Lawrencium is LR! Score for Brady!

[@davideisner6171]

Love this. I was about to plead for an upload so I can try to run it too, and you've already uploaded it for us! Props for saving the disk.

[@williamsquires3070]

There was a really old game/simulation program for the Apple ][+ (//GS?) that let you perform simple experiments in inorganic chemistry. If you did it right, you could see the result, but if you mixed your chemicals in the wrong order, or used the wrong amounts, or the wrong reactants, it would - IIRC - make an animation of the glassware breaking and the experiment was over. Forgot the title, though, too much time has passed.

[@m_riatik]

*Top 10 Brady Haran crossovers in history*

[@aurelia8028]

What is this? A crossover episode?

[@lolomcspanky]

@Magnus Juul Best low-key Bojack reference I've ever seen. High five! (if it wasn't an intentional reference, please don't tell me, I want to believe)

[@eelooplanitia6640]

#2: Whack A Mac

[@magicalpencil]

I don't know why but this video is such a feel-good video for me. Probably cos the passion for their subjects combined with nostalgia they are both having. Just plain awesomeness!

[@periodicvideos]

Hey thanks. Glad you liked it.

[@josephvinod7157]

The Professor is someone who can explain anything with such ease and simplicity. Its always a joy to hear him on the pereodic table videos and i am happy we are having videos uploads with less gaps between them.

[@Erik_The_Viking]

Awesome! It's nice to see some old software come back to life. I have my share of old files and such from the 80's that I'll need to port some day.

[@NovaHolyDays]

1: Periodic Table 2: Multiple Choise Periodic Videos: You know one what i want? Martyn: Multiple Choice? Periodic Videos: .....

[@VisboerAnton]

Slava Demushkin What?

[@electronicsNmore]

I remember those 5.25" floppy discs. I had a nibbler tool that let you make them double sided by creating a notch.

[@angelopastorini1711]

electronicsNmore still a more useful notch than the iPhone X notch (and many others)

[@corinaking2052]

I love this idea, its such an intuitive way to learn something like this!!

[@tyrgoossens]

Cor, hearing real floppy disk sounds always takes me back.

[@joshuakahky6891]

"We have to press the 'any' key." Brilliant

[@1978SOOTY]

You are truly amazing sir.

[@permanentvisitor2460]

I'd love to play this. I had a chemistry game for my Comodore 64 that had compounds you had to make and each one had a specific list of elements available for the task, as well as the ability to heat and/or pressurize the working area. It was fun. But no matter what I tried, I could never make the synthetic diamond.

[@knife_wizard]

This is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

[@Petertronic]

Nice games! I had the same Cumana drive, with the clunky solenoid that engages/disengages the heads each time it runs.

[@PacoOtis]

Excellent! Thanks so much for the video!

[@Taras195]

WOAH A CROSSOVER

[@gnuthad]

0:18 Ahh Chuckie Egg. I used to play that game back in school on the BBC computers we owned.

[@adrianevans5953]

The BBC Micro wow that brought back some memories from my childhood at school using these old computers thank you for this video :-)

[@DakotaAbroad]

This is absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

[@periodicvideos]

You’re welcome. Hope you caught the additional video on Computerphile.

[@DakotaAbroad]

I was on my lunch at work earlier so I didn't have time, but I'm going to now that I'm home! =D

[@koushuu]

Never miss a Periodic Video :)

[@andimukendi8253]

Wish you long life and good health always, prof.

[@julianrdz]

I love how they both acknowledge the image is off center and don’t do anything about it

[@louiskreyling1551]

Thanks for all you do you opened up new doors for me now i know so much more about chemistry im 17 years old one day i hope to be as knowledgeable about chemistry as you

[@brucet9799]

David Glowacki at the University of Bristol UK, has developed a virtual reality tool that allows chemists to picture the structures they study in the lab. In pre;preliminary tests, Glowacki has shown that people are much faster at moving digital models around using VR gear that they are doing the same task on a screen. Glowacki hopes to harness that spacial intuition to let humans tackle problems too hard for supercomputers to solve. - Time for Periodic Videos to visit Bristol?

[@KGello]

The most ambitious crossover in the history of KZbin

[@pralhadshenoy5901]

I love him so much. He is the only interesting and fun professor I know.

[@leonelrommanovv9068]

I really enjoy this videos and the way this great professor explains it all , Greetings from mexico

[@sufssuz5188]

I LOVE Periodic Videos.

[@alexclaxton997]

Talk about bringing back memories I still have an acorn electron in my loft

[@1mctous]

95 = Americium, which I learned thanks to you!

[@Markle2k]

Oh! The number of corny jokes spawned by hit 'any' key. Are we going to see the code available for emulators?

[@victork3248]

Markle2k There's a link in the description with the game available for download

[@twothreebravo]

6:28 Throwing shade at Brailsford. Niiiice

[@rareroe305]

Used to play a game on DOS called Atomix, a puzzle game where you had to line up the atoms to make the molecule. Used to love that game.

[@TheTogoRojo]

This was so cool. Thank you for sharing.

[@periodicvideos]

You can thank us by sharing it too. :)

[@irgendwer3610]

"Do you play games?" "- I delete games"

[@spshowcase2040]

That's so cool. It really takes me back about 30 years when I was writing computer code in Basic on a Radio Shack Color Computer 2. I am an IT Engineer and also a Telecom Tech.

[@Cyberducky]

I would love to try it.

[@3800S1]

This is awesome.

[@silkworm6861]

Cool emulator! It even has the sounds on the machine reading the floppy.

[@jameskitching6187]

I am a biochemistry student at nottingham now and think it would be very interesting to see the 3rd option, what studying there was like back then!!

[@carolnorton2551]

I love to listen to Martyn.

[@opsimathics]

A jrpg, with a magic battle mechanic where you combine elements and based on their bonds and possible combinations, spells turn out powerful or not. Elemental qualities like radioactivity, covalence, decay time and others determine buff/debuffs

[@nannesoar]

5:55 that table looks SO much better than I expected

[@dosalline]

I adore your way of explaining stuff. At school I found Chemistry boring and now I find it sooooo interesting and fascinating

[@daicon2k6]

It was Americium and Nobelium (Am and No, respectively).

[@lolomcspanky]

I was wondering if anyone else was yelling "Nobelium! Nobelium!!!!" at the screen. This channel is the main reason I memorized the whole thing in the first place :P

[@thegreaterconundrum]

What a silly situation to use the word respectively in

[@randall.chamberlain]

This is awesome

[@CodeLeeCarter]

I'd love to have a version of the Periodic Table game, where you can select the element and it'll display all the information for the given selection like it does here. Is there anything like this in circulation? I like the version we can play online, however, I'd like to see an updated version of this to install and play offline.

[@GertrudePerkins]

I remember those floppy, floppy disks! I used them back in the mid 1980s.

[@Christoph1990]

Make a let‘s play with the professor! :D

[@wjodf8067]

thanks professor

[@johnnypopulus5521]

Prof is a game developer too!

[@dstarfire42]

As a computerphile fan I was so excited when he said we're heaving over to the computer science department. I immediately thought "hope we get to see a familiar face", and it turned out to be one of my favorite computerphile hosts (the other is Professor Brailsford, obviously).

[@jairusloo4106]

I cant get over the professor casually quaking in the back ground at 2:00

[@Tocsin-Bang]

I remember the programs, we had them in a couple of schools I worked in.

[@ciaran4283]

I bet you’re glad there are games out there on steam like spacechem, chemist, sokobond, and other science inspired games out there to get people into it

[@ShaMan54321]

This is freaking cool!

[@daviddupoise6443]

I wrote a similar bit of code in 1986 for my 11th grade science project using the C-64. I am certain that I have neither the machine nor the code. This was fun. Mine was prettier but didn't have sound due to time pressure and we were forbidden to collaborate.

[@roidroid]

The noises from computers was rather satisfying, i remember.

[@clxwncrxwn]

I didn’t get the bell notification, came from computerphile.

[@brian9731]

When I was at Sutton Bonington from '86 to '89, BBC micros, were set up as terminal emulators connected to the DEC Vax VMS mainframe. We had a lab full of them and you could start them up in terminal mode or BBC Micro mode. They were quite remarkably robust - must've been given a lot of hammer by undergrads for years.

[@RealUlrichLeland]

what a lad

[@greensteve9307]

In 2000 I got a chemistry game from free with one of those "PC World" magazines, or something like that. I think it was called "ChemLAB"? You could run all kinds of experiments with it, with things boiling or reacting in "real time" via simple graphics. I couldn't make much of it, but a friend who was doing chemistry at my TAFE loved it!

[@andrewbuckley9180]

Hi Professor, have you heard of the chemistry game called Sokobond? You have to make molecules by manipulating one of the atoms around a grid to pick up the others using their electrons to end up with the complete molecule. Then there is an interesting fact about the molecule. Quite a nice way to learn about molecules I think

[@TheLambLive]

There must be hundreds of BBC Micro programs floating around covering all education topics thanks to the schools program. I can certainly remember a few. But sadly there doesn't seem to be any copies of this stuff online, or at least not where I've looked. It's a shame... would love to relive those days.

[@eckhardmann1409]

Well done! Great ..

[@plum_pie6402]

your hair.... its amazing

[@ariedge2435]

wow.. respect for professor....

[@corwinhyatt519]

Wow. I havn't seen a 5 1/4" disc in ages.

[@otakuribo]

6:24 _casually roasts Professor Brailsford omg_

[@gregbusey6556]

Amazing

[@arshsiddhu2479]

very nice

[@timlipinski2571]

Great video ! That Disk looked like a 5 1/4 inch Floppy Disk ! I have an old Dell Computer that has a 3.5 inch Floppy Disk... Hope to save an online version of the programs ! tjl

[@juicyjuice671]

Prof: "you have to press the any key" me: *dies of cuteness*

[@CalvinLimakaFenghuo]

Prof Poliakoff, you are one amazing educator! I’m often so proud to tell my students that you were my uni lecturer whenever they stumble upon Periodic Videos online...

[@oron61]

This era isn't from my youth, exactly. More like my early teens, digging through my Dad's old computer Equipment.

[@joe564338]

Man I always wanted to make a chemistry game where you just make random compounds... Its tough trying to figure out how to do it and make it fun

[@Fiddlesticks86]

"You have to press the any key" 😂

[@SeriousAlexej]

Well, now we have Space Chem! Chemistry games can be really fun

[@shooting6lasers]

“Computers were more visceral, they made noises and such.” I guess the computer science professor has never seen my gaming laptop that sounds like a jet turbine.

[@WarisAmirMohammad]

Iconic crossover

[@yellowpowwer]

Yes please

[@lexian5602]

You gotta hustle in the University of Nottingham.

[@hannahshekinah7663]

THANKS.It is useful for school studants.

[@GamersBar]

shout out to lode runner on the apple II, i played much too much of that game as a child