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 ...
Wow, what a great article I was able to make good use of this when studying the game. Was it tough getting in touch with Sid Meier I'd love to interview him at some point as well. I posted a YouTube retrospective on this game here: http://www.youtube.com/watch v PnRGsIaU6Zc Enjoy
