What if you traveled media back in time?

[The Sum of Awe]

For example;

1) How do you think a gamer in the early 2000s would've reacted if you had them play Witcher 3?

2) Do you think someone in the 1800s could've liked Fade to Black by Metallica if you played it for them?

3) What if you went back to the 1940s and shown American kids anime? Would even .0001% of them like it?

etc

 

[Viker]

1) How do you think a gamer in the early 2000s would've reacted if you had them play Witcher 3?

They'd probably like it. But with irony eye rolls.

2) Do you think someone in the 1800s could've liked Fade to Black by Metallica if you played it for them?

Possibly, until it goes into thrash metal assault mode. Then they would possibly run for their lives. "One" would really trick them.

3) What if you went back to the 1940s and shown American kids anime? Would even .0001% of them like it?

As long as you didn't tell them it was Japanese, they'd love it like kids (and adults/big kids) today.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Even if I could go back in time and listen to The Beatles' music, I wouldn't go that far. I would like to travel back in time to somewhere between 1962 and 1963 and experience the original Beatlemania. What I wouldn't give as a Beatles fan is to see them live in concert and on the Ed Sullivan Show, or to actually see them live on the Ed Sullivan Show, and to see them up close and in person when they first arrived to stay at a hotel. Of course, the screaming from the rest of the crowd would be deafening but totally worth it. I'm sure some people won't understand why I feel this way, and it's because the Beatles' music literally changed my life while I was growing up in an abusive home. There's no doubt in my mind that listening to their music helped me survive what I suffered. In fact, their music has been a constant in my life since I was thirteen, and I'll be fifty this summer. While I can't go back like that, it's fun to think about it.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Even if I could go back in time and listen to The Beatles' music, I wouldn't go that far. I'd like to travel back in time to somewhere between 1962 and 1963 and experience the original Beatlemania. What I wouldn't give as a Beatles fan is to see them live in concert and on the Ed Sullivan Show, or to actually see them live on the Ed Sullivan Show, and to see them up close and in person when they first arrived to stay at a hotel. Of course, the screaming from the rest of the crowd would be deafening but totally worth it. I'm sure some people won't understand why I feel this way, and it's because the Beatles' music literally changed my life while I was growing up in an abusive home. There's no doubt in my mind that listening to their music helped me survive what I suffered. In fact, their music has been a constant in my life since I was thirteen, and I'll be fifty this summer. While I can't go back like that, it's fun to think about it.

I think you misunderstood my question. Do you think anyone would have liked The Beatles in the 1860s?

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I think you misunderstood my question. Do you think anyone would have liked The Beatles in the 1860s?

I assume so. It's the Beatles, for God's sake. And no, I didn't misunderstand your question. In fact, I answered it in the first sentence of my post. I said that I wouldn't go back as far as you mentioned. In fact, I wouldn't want to. If I'm going to travel back in time, then I'm going to go back to when I mentioned it in my other post and experience the original Beatlemania, and that would be my top priority.

 

[icehorse]

I think you misunderstood my question. Do you think anyone would have liked The Beatles in the 1860s?

I'd say that in general art evolves, and that art revolutions might struggle to gain traction. So specifically, I think a few people in the 1860s would like the Beatles, but that for most the music would be too revolutionary.

That said, I think it's easier to appreciate older music. So while my favorite music is from the 60s and 70s, I LOVE Beethoven (and other classical composers as well).

 

[exchemist]

For example;

1) How do you think a gamer in the early 2000s would've reacted if you had them play Witcher 3?

2) Do you think someone in the 1800s could've liked Fade to Black by Metallica if you played it for them?

3) What if you went back to the 1940s and shown American kids anime? Would even .0001% of them like it?

etc

Bach would probably have liked really good jazz, I think. Just as really good jazz players like Bach.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Possibly, until it goes into thrash metal assault mode. Then they would possibly run for their lives. "One" would really trick them.

I'd rather nuke their brains by playing Orion and then switching to Creeping Death.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think it would be fun to tour around England after WWII and show people footage of Ozzfest and tell them this is what their greatest English children ever born will grow up to create.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Bringing Cradle of Filth to the Medieval Era would also be fun.
So would Faces of Death and Nightmare on Elm Street.

 

[Viker]

I'd rather nuke their brains by playing Orion and then switching to Creeping Death.

You're cruel. Really, really cruel.

 

[Viker]

I think it would be fun to tour around England after WWII and show people footage of Ozzfest and tell them this is what their greatest English children ever born will grow up to create.

Metal. Born and bred in Britain! Britain's greatest contribution to humanity. Making it one of the greatest things ever.

 

[Twilight Hue]

3) What if you went back to the 1940s and shown American kids anime? Would even .0001% of them like it?

etc

Anime has been around since the late thirties.


List of anime by release date (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

I'm sure it would be as popular as it is today.

 

[Secret Chief]

I think even in the 1860s people would say Ringo Starr was a **** drummer

 

[Secret Chief]

Bach would probably have liked really good jazz, I think. Just as really good jazz players like Bach.

Bach was a real cool cat.

 

[Quintessence]

Way to make some of us feel old, @The Sum of Awe - I was a gamer back in the early 2000s.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think I would introduce Mozart and Beethoven to Iron Maiden.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Way to make some of us feel old, @The Sum of Awe - I was a gamer back in the early 2000s.

Some of were when the Atari and regular Nintendo were the greatest of home video gaming consoles.

 

[Stevicus]

Bach was a real cool cat.

Ahhh...Bach!

 

[Stevicus]

For example;

1) How do you think a gamer in the early 2000s would've reacted if you had them play Witcher 3?

2) Do you think someone in the 1800s could've liked Fade to Black by Metallica if you played it for them?

3) What if you went back to the 1940s and shown American kids anime? Would even .0001% of them like it?

etc

I'm not familiar enough with Witcher 3 to be able to answer the first question.

As for Metallica, my guess is that someone from the 1800s might be confused by the music technology which developed in the 20th century, particularly with the electronics, sound mixing, recording, etc. I'm not sure how someone from that time would react to the music itself. Metallica might be a bit too heavy. Maybe something lighter might do, such as "Brandy" by Looking Glass.

Going back to the 1940s with anime? You mean, like comics and cartoons? Sure, kids back then liked cartoons, just as they do now.

Along the same theme, what might be interesting is to go back to 1974, find the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and play them the Gordon Lightfoot song which was written about the wreck of that ship in 1975.