[game_preservation] 1Up's article on game mechanics

[Frank Cifaldi]

Incidentally, I just took over the features department on 1UP this week, and
I'm going to run more historically interesting content like this in the
future. If anyone here wants to be involved or even wants to just toss ideas
around for articles/video/etc. that might further our cause, let me know!

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:


> Well, looks like SOMEBODY found out about the history of The Sumerian Game

> from what I was researching! Guess I should write up a short article before

> somebody else gets confused! However, most people are familiar with Ahl's

> port because that was the most widely-distributed version.

>

> http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3182752

>

> The interesting thing about citing games like this is very few of them you

> can say have physical ties to the games they discuss. I think The Sumerian

> Game is one because Hamurabi was cited as an inspiration to Civilization.

> The others? They were big in the lab, but didn't get played by many people

> outside of that and so did not have a chance to inspire future designers.

> The big games mentioned as being 'beaten by' such-and-such were on the other

> hand mostly far more influential because they were played by more people -

> specifically by more designers. So in this reading, it doesn't matter how

> many people played the game so long as it was played by people who were

> making more games so they could draw inspiration from it :)

>

> -Devin

>

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