{"id":30,"date":"2008-09-29T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-09-29T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:30:39","slug":"this-gaming-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/09\/this-gaming-life\/","title":{"rendered":"This Gaming Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tenth and last week of the Learning 2.0 programme here at Imperial College Library is on Gaming and Virtual worlds. I started a post saying "I'm not really a gamer", but as I started to write more about the games I played I realised that this really wasn't going to wash.<\/p>\n

I guess you could say I'm a first generation 'native' (or 'resident') computer gamer – that is, I played computer games growing up, whereas my parents were well in the pre-computer game era when they were children. I think it is fair to say that my parents have never really become real 'natives', although they do occasionally try stuff out (usually at my behest).<\/p>\n

So instead of the first post I was going to do, here is a meme style thing instead – my life through games, listing the games (plus platforms) that standout somehow in my life to date, with the platform I played them on – so here it is, my life in 20 games:<\/p>\n

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  1. Manic Miner (ZX Spectrum) – a platform game starring 'Miner Willy' <\/li>\n
  2. Atic Atac (ZX Spectrum) – a type of graphic adventure, you had to explore, find keys, eat food etc. <\/li>\n
  3. Impossible Mission (Commodore 64) – another platformer "Stay a while… stay – forever!” <\/li>\n
  4. Summer\/Winter Games (Commodore 64) – sports key\/joystick bashing games of various types <\/li>\n
  5. Arcadians (BBC B\/BBC Master) – a space invaders game, very fond memories of this<\/li>\n
  6. Colossal Cave (BBC B) – a text adventure game (aka interactive fiction), based on the classic ‘Adventure’ – the very first game of this type<\/li>\n
  7. Dunjunz (BBC B\/BBC Master) – a type of graphic ‘adventure’ (although more ‘kill the monsters\/collect the treasure than anything more strategic), but notable for 4 way split screen with 4 player option and level design option to create your own levels<\/li>\n
  8. Great Britain Ltd (BBC B) – a turn based ‘simulation’ where you set various aspects of government policy – e.g. spend on law and order – and saw the outcome (rate of inflation, riots, etc. etc.)<\/li>\n
  9. Chuckie Egg (BBC B) – a platform game – many hours spent on this one<\/li>\n
  10. Twin Kingdom Valley (BBC B) – the first ‘graphical’ adventure – I guess a precursor to the ‘point and click’ adventure game<\/li>\n
  11. Myst (Mac) – classic ‘point and click’ adventure<\/li>\n
  12. Tomb Raider Series (PC\/PS2) – essentially a 3d platform game I suppose – I liked the combination of storyline\/puzzles\/dexterity<\/li>\n
  13. Dancing Stage (PS1) – a ‘Dance Dance Revolution’ clone – using a ‘dance mat’ that plugs into the console, move your feet in <\/li>\n
  14. Singstar (PS2) – competitive Karaoke, I love it!<\/li>\n
  15. Brain Training (Nintendo DS) – solve sums and word games etc. on Nintendo’s touch screen handheld<\/li>\n
  16. Guitar Hero (PS2) – competitive guitar playing! Essentially hit combinations of keys (on a guitar shaped controller) in time with the music<\/li>\n
  17. Scene It! (XBox 360) – Movie quiz game, spent several hours enjoying beating my nephews and nieces at this<\/li>\n
  18. Bejewelled (Mac\/iPhone\/Online) – a ‘puzzle’ type game – line up jewels to score points<\/li>\n
  19. Scrabulous (Online\/Facebook) – Scrabble clone (now removed), my wife and I played jointly against others on her account<\/li>\n
  20. Wii Play (Wii) – collection of mini-games designed to show off the capabilities of the Wii – Cow Racing is my favourite<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If anyone wants to follow my meme, then post a list and trackback to here…<\/p>\n

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