(no subject)
Nov. 30th, 2002 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumBouncing aroung Kirk Israel's website, I was looking around the videogames section and found an interesting link:
Essentially, Kirk says he is fascinated by the concept of an entire universe, an artificial life of sorts, fitting on a 16K cartridge. Every classic game collector has hundreds of these universes sealed up in his garage. I'd never made the connection between the teeming ecosystem of Mega Man, and strange simulated environments like John Conway's Life, until today. It's not surprising he listed Raid on Bungeling Bay, a game actually written by the author of Sim City, who often mentioned that he "was having a lot more fun creating these little islands than [...] bombing them".
This is a good thing to keep in mind when designing classic-style games or remakes of classics for the modern market.
why i like classic gamesAs someone with a similar position on classic games, I couldn't resist reading the article.
I wrote an essay justifying some of my game playing, the result of trying to figure out why I was very interested in Classic Games, though I didn't play them all that much.
Essentially, Kirk says he is fascinated by the concept of an entire universe, an artificial life of sorts, fitting on a 16K cartridge. Every classic game collector has hundreds of these universes sealed up in his garage. I'd never made the connection between the teeming ecosystem of Mega Man, and strange simulated environments like John Conway's Life, until today. It's not surprising he listed Raid on Bungeling Bay, a game actually written by the author of Sim City, who often mentioned that he "was having a lot more fun creating these little islands than [...] bombing them".
This is a good thing to keep in mind when designing classic-style games or remakes of classics for the modern market.
