I can't get past the line I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow. Oh, yeah, if those designers back in the day had only had better tech, they'd have ...
My friend Mark Vergeer recently made a video showing all of the hundreds of Defender clones out there...I didn't realize there were quite so many And apparently these are just a selection. http://www.youtube.com/watch v SP-coMuvoKE
By the way, if you'd like to see some of the PLATO games this article mentions, I have a YouTube video that shows them in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch v 5k QQV9sj4I
My fault. We had a paragraph in there about Bangai-O, but my hand-eye coordination is lacking ever try to type an article using a dual joystick setup My hand slipped at a critical moment, and that whole section got devoured by a Brain. Uh oh, Bangai-O. Sorry, long day. :P
It wouldn't surprise me at all at this point if there were many forgotten videogames of some sort in the 40s and 50s. Who's to say what was happening in all those top secret labs I've also scratched my head a few times at the fuzzy line between videogames and ...
