[game_preservation] 1Up's article on game mechanics

[Frank Cifaldi]

Yeah, I've been doing a lot of research trying to organize a substantial
"This Day in History" starting January 1, so the anniversary part is
covered. I like retrospective interviews too but they're pretty expensive
from both a resource and actual money perspective, but I agree with you,
they're my favorite. Here's mine on the NES launch, I forget if it made the
rounds on this list:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3182029

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  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> 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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