[game_preservation] 1Up's article on game mechanics

[Andrew Armstrong]

Nice work on that, fun read about the people selling it, although not 
being alive at the time the more obvious nostalgia inducing parts 
obviously didn't quite work :D hehehe!

Getting the people who don't just develop games to comment does make for 
interesting reading.

Thing with anniversaries is you do like every 5 years (10 years, 15, 20, 
25, etc.), meaning every year is packed with pretty repetitive favourite 
ones; although I've no idea how best to change that except perhaps 
spreading them out some more as the histories get longer.

Andrew

On 16/12/2010 19:52, Frank Cifaldi wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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 <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

>>         www.deserthat.com <http://www.deserthat.com>

>>

>>         The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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