Quake 3? Everquest? Wow, I've played these games and many more of the "newer" games out there today. All I can say is they don't come close to anything in the way of addiction to the early games of the 80's. Playing on the early Atari systems, there were no multiplayer games to help change the flow of a game. There were no frills added to the games. You sat down in front of your tv which probably had big dials on it, popped in a cartridge, grabbed a "real" joystick with one little red button and played till you couldn't feel your thumb. Games like Pacman and Space Invaders are games that you can call addictive. Nothing ever changed in them, but you kept coming back for more....hour after hour.
As a group, we seem to have taken this opportunity to complain about the miseries of our own childhoods, instead of answering this educator's question. ~fundulus
About time someone brought it up. I've just spent almost an hour reading through as many posts as I could (seeing that I am at work right now) and I've got to hand it to a lot of you. For you see, I am now just learning that almost everyone that reads/. is a SUPER GENIUS. Yep, thats right, SUPER GENIUS. 'cause apparently, you all learned to read when you were 2 and you learned super string theory when you were 8. A lot of you went off on tangents based on bias and age old wounds that I do not believe you ever got over. BillH wrote how he got picked on all the time until he started fighting back. BillH are proud of the fact that you left someone blinded for life? Jonathon wrote a sarcastic remark relating to a successful adult and a used-car salesman. My dad was a used car-salesman. Now he wasn't a SUPER GENIUS like you all but most of us aren't. Am I rambling now, probably. I guess thats the down side of being average...always rambling. I'm just glad that none of you have a hand in teaching this child anything.
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Quake 3? Everquest? Wow, I've played these games and many more of the "newer" games out there today. All I can say is they don't come close to anything in the way of addiction to the early games of the 80's. Playing on the early Atari systems, there were no multiplayer games to help change the flow of a game. There were no frills added to the games. You sat down in front of your tv which probably had big dials on it, popped in a cartridge, grabbed a "real" joystick with one little red button and played till you couldn't feel your thumb. Games like Pacman and Space Invaders are games that you can call addictive. Nothing ever changed in them, but you kept coming back for more....hour after hour.
As a group, we seem to have taken this opportunity to complain about the miseries of our own childhoods, instead of answering this educator's question. ~fundulus
/. is a SUPER GENIUS. Yep, thats right, SUPER GENIUS. 'cause apparently, you all learned to read when you were 2 and you learned super string theory when you were 8. A lot of you went off on tangents based on bias and age old wounds that I do not believe you ever got over. BillH wrote how he got picked on all the time until he started fighting back. BillH are proud of the fact that you left someone blinded for life? Jonathon wrote a sarcastic remark relating to a successful adult and a used-car salesman. My dad was a used car-salesman. Now he wasn't a SUPER GENIUS like you all but most of us aren't. Am I rambling now, probably. I guess thats the down side of being average...always rambling. I'm just glad that none of you have a hand in teaching this child anything.
About time someone brought it up. I've just spent almost an hour reading through as many posts as I could (seeing that I am at work right now) and I've got to hand it to a lot of you. For you see, I am now just learning that almost everyone that reads