Everytime I read a novel and then see the movie based on the book, I am disappointed. Why? Because it seems the movie does not live up to the scenes, actions, images, that are depicted in the book. Our brains are incredible. One of its amazing functions is to convert text from the pages of a book and produce fantastic imagry in our heads.
Video games are no different from books. How? Check out the latest games and you will be blown away from the awesome graphics. Technology has allowed today's game to approach realism that is almost indistinguishable from the real world.
The sad part of all this is that it takes a little bit away from the creativity that is conjured up in the brain. We are becoming vegetables - sitting in front of a screen and taking in the game or even tv show without thinking......just opening a whole in our head and forcefed the material.
What am I rambling about? The topic above got me to thinking how much I really enjoyed the early days of computer gaming. They were simple and you actually had to use some brainwork to imagine or create scenes in your head to make up for the awful graphics.......
Text games were really special for me. Zork was incredible. It was a pure text game. You solved puzzles by interacting with the computer program with text sentences. By solving a puzzle, you received points. A perfectly solved game was when you scored the maximum points....... But more importantly, the scenes and puzzles that were displayed on the screen became vivid images in the brain - similar to reading a good novel.
I recommend that anyone who hasn't experienced this type of game - try it out......Inofocom, the developers of Zork actually offer a free download of the classic game (3 parts)....do a search on Zork, you will be taken to their website - you can read the history and the groundbreaking path the developers took to make Zork establish its place in computer history.
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