Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Television Entertainment Games

That Time Adam West, TV's 'Batman', Also Advocated For Videogames (twitter.com) 38

Adam West, star of the 1960s TV series Batman, has died at age 88. An anonymous reader shares a memory of that time the 53-year-old actor wrote an op-ed for a 1982 issue of Videogame and Computer Gaming Illustrated. "I've been playing with computers longer than most," West wrote on page 6. [PDF] "I had onboard computers in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, having learned in an episode of TV's The Outer Limits that you can't survive on the Red Planet without them. Then, of course, I was up to my cowl in computers as television's Batman... In 1966, when the series began its three season run, all of that was science fiction. Computers were playthings of the researchers at MIT... Today, a lot of the apparatus we had in Batman -- dressed, of course, in less imposing names -- is fact. And we're lucky this is so."

West called videogames "an ideal means to broaden the imaginations of young people," saying the medium "can expand our awareness of the world as it is, was, or might be. The medium is still in its infancy, but read this again in a few years and see if this prediction hasn't come true: as videogaming grows, we will grow."

My favorite story is how West was cast as Batman after the show's producer spotted his performance as super-spy Agent Q in a commercial for Nestle Quik. And CNN also remembers that "later in life, West made appearances on the animated series 'Family Guy' as Mayor Adam West, the oddball leader of Quahog, Rhode Island."
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

That Time Adam West, TV's 'Batman', Also Advocated For Videogames

Comments Filter:
  • by SpankiMonki ( 3493987 ) on Saturday June 10, 2017 @03:32PM (#54593227)
    RIP Adam West
  • Holy heart failure! [youtube.com]

    51 year time bomb.

  • I'm so glad he found more recent fame as Mayor Adam West on Family Guy. I'll miss his humor.
  • I met him years ago, what a really nice man! Very personable too. RIP Adam.....
  • by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:42PM (#54593419)

    Mayor Adam West was not available for comment.

  • RIP! I just saw http://starringadamwest.com/ [starringadamwest.com] last month. It was good. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. -- Jerome Lettvin

Working...