[game_preservation] 1Up's article on game mechanics

[Andrew Armstrong]

There's always an anniversary or something going on, I'm sure we'll have 
some ideas, hehe :) (I personally like retrospectives on the development 
of old games - interviews, etc.) but good to know there will be more 
articles - this one was a fun read even if some of them are a bit odd, 
more the fact referring to the "firsts" rather then the "not firsts" is 
good.

Andrew

On 16/12/2010 18:25, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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

>

>     -- 

>     Devin Monnens

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>

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