playwright Lucy Prebble Enron became addicted to computer games as a child. And he said, they are so well developed as works in film, television or stage
The first thing I remember is
Zork
. The year I was born, four boys who had invented a programming language at MIT, published a text "computer game" Interactive who went by the name futuristic nonsense, but impressive, Zork
. It is hard to remember the computers they were then, without the current direction of technological sophistication (or should be so naive). My father worked in the computer, so we had computers at home at an early age. I remember my older brothers learn to "code" to enter the command strings to form a small "program" which meant the team did something like change the color of the screen or display a triangle on the road
most of us remember the darkness of the DOS, the blinking cursor, patient but demanding. It was a time when I felt deep in his team were at the show. You turn it on and not its black belly, waiting to be plowed through, vulnerable, demanding endless. There was nothing nice design, Happy Apple or order the Windows blue ring. We were still building a comfortable house with these materials. No, DOS was so open and black as the American plains in the dark and scary as. But there were prizes for those brave enough to dominate the border.
And what those of us who remember DOS realize now is that we are protected against a team that really how it works: how to code, design or run a program. We have tamed the frontier and lost these basic skills. Few of us give up our homes stylish and compatible virtual to be out in the cold of the night again, but there was an excitement in the dark. On this darkness came one of the first stories I remember saying.
Zork
was a computer game based on the text, which meant that only a black screen, white text appeared weak, say where he was, what was going on and then wait for instructions. "You are standing in an open field," he began, "west of a white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. "
Then you can write what I wanted. No multiple choice questions, free avatar, you must type in ... nothing. It is difficult to explain the emotion that was a little boy obsessed book that had recently learned to read, padding hidden under the floor, his eyes reflecting the glow of the screen, Ribena dangerous on the keyboard. I wondered what to do next. I am invited to join the story.
You remember that little exciting in the Big
where the new Tom Hanks adult toy designing the next big thing: ebook comic where the reader can make decisions along the way the final? Well, congratulations, my friend, invent games only eight years after the fact.
course, there was trash, so to speak. It recognizes a limited number of words to do with management or action, and it was easy to fall repeatedly being killed by a crane in a cave, but it was really scary, and n ' had no idea what was coming. There were birds to watch and a "sinister presence prowls" and so dark that the narrative form, literally, literally push through. Obviously, there were authors of this adventure in the black night. You might say, because when you put in bad words instead of commands (as I defy anyone to resist, if Zork or Siri in the new iPhone 4S), the game recognized and criticized in appropriate containers. At that time, a little girl in the office of his father and four adult males in debt bondage MIT. In a product completely.
From this point, my trip was Sega-dependent. Runaway Jury, the Mega Drive. There were those who went the way of Nintendo, with lighter colors and bounce Mario squat. I avoided them. You were one of Nintendo or Sega and never the two should go around the house to the other for tea. I can still hear the voice of the Mega Drive
Altered Beast
. You can always make a strange impression of the sounds made when it launched a fireball in the Ryu
Street Fighter
. Why I became an avid player, while many in those days at least, right?
think it's related to writing. Like writing, the game is essentially private and individual (although not really need). He is creative, compared to the passivity of watching a movie or read a book. Decisions are made and often even the design of the world for you. And, perhaps most important, is treated.
The writer has a strange and ridiculous response to the fight with their environment. Even the actor in front of his place in the scheme of things, the answer is relatively healthy to become capable of changing themselves better for everyone. The writer, frustrated and disappointed with their lives, above the storms, close the door and comes back: "If this is what the world is like, I make my own ..." What's more the analogy, is that for adolescents without power, which is removed SimCity
civilizations to build and rule on the other characters, smaller for a while?
Today, for example, is common practice to be able to design, in detail, the avatar of the character you play. This is a welcome element of choice for those of us tired of playing muscular white men who say things like: "We will kill time," apparently unaware of any double meaning. So pathetically try to design the body and face of my player to be exactly like mine. Not better, not the virtual version of your dreams from me, the real version of me, with bad teeth and love handles. satisfaction inherent to myself "play the game" has become a little less pleasant than Fable series or
Saints Row 3 realistic age of your character as it passes the time. So loading a game for me is to welcome an exact representation of my eyes and then quickly fades into the horrors to come.
But that does not mean that it is simply an expression of megalomania. As with writing, megalomania comes in an active way to fight against loneliness. We recognize the power of literature that drives us where, as Alan Bennett puts The History Boys : "The best moments of reading are those in which there is a passage seems have been written just for you. It is as if a hand has come to take his. "
GamesNow you can literally play alongside each other as friends or enemies. Before, when a PC adventure the new game came to my house as a kid, we all take turns to play and if there was some difficulty, particularly to overcome, you can bet that the child or the adult who finally got Lara Croft without stopping to think that song jump against the wall would comply. It's very rare to find a child.
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