There’s a good article called The Gaming Generation on gaming and parenting. It has made me remember my long history with the joystick. Its been nearly 30 years since i pushed my first pixel across a TV screen. What a rush!!! After a lifetime of watching pixels dance on a TV screen, its a MIGHTY POWER RUSH to take control over the screen and make a pixel do something . .. in this case, bounce back over to the other side. That was Atari. That was 1977 on a brand new machine that some friends had brought home from America. I am still pushing pixels across a screen.
I first fell in love with my wife on a video game. She was good. Very good. She almost beat me. Maybe she did beat me but my brain refuses that memory.
One day, I am going to find an old Atari and play bricks or pong on my TV. THAT will be cool!
Have you seen the new wii. it recognizes the move of your hand, so it generates a tennis raket swing. Pretty awesom.
yeah – bummer about the recall of 3.2 million controls for a faulty strap . .
Hey, you can play those old games online now – the programming for the old arcade games used to be only about 64K (yes, that’s a K) of memory so there’s online interpreters now so you can play them. Go here to play Pong – http://www.pong-story.com/pcpong.htm
Enjoy