Welcome to Ancient Gaming 101

[Chefodeath]

Hello students and welcome to ancient gaming 101.

In this class we will be looking at the ancient roots of interactive medium in the 20th and 21st centuries. I know a lot of you are asking yourselves why you are required to take a class on some archaic old games. I can already hear some of you snickering in the back at the early interface method known as "the controller"! But remember, if it wasn't for thse first primative joysticks and cds, there would be no interactive media as we know it today. You'd have to get off your lazy asses and actually WALK to class instead of just mind hacking into the college mainframe.

Anyway, this is just a brief survey course so we'll just be looking at the classics. Have you all read the sylabus? Who can tell me what classic ancient games we'll be going over?

 

[robot slipper]

The Sierra 3D adventure games like Space Quest and King's Quest from the Archaic PC's of yore! I'm talking Tandy 1000 era.
These games, from the age of 8, taught me problem-solving, perseverence, humour, and how to type. They were awesome in so many ways. The stack of floppy disks required to run them! The crappy, 16-colour graphics! Ah, those were the days.

 

[Odd Owl]

Proposed Masters Theses:

"Lessons from Leisure Suit Larry: Sexual Norms in the Late 20th Century"

"Katamari Damacy: Depictions of God in Early 21st Century Interactive Media"

 

[thiosk]

I can't come to class today because I'm too busy studying crashed alien spaceship architecture and archaic defense systems in Super Metroid

 

[Rusman]

Well I am assuming there will be at least one lecture looking at Tennis for Two and Space War.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I'm totally stoked for the "Gaming theory" module, which addresses the philosophical ideals inherent in early games, such as the Feminist perspective of Pacman and Ms. Pacman, the Marxist interpretation of Asteroids, the Biblical implications of Space Invaders and how Donkey Kong has benefited the animal rights movement.