Critical Play: Radical Game Design

摘要

In the last 20 years, video games have become solidly entrenched in popular culture. Part of this is the increased pervasiveness of computer technology in our lives. When I was a teenager, video games were mainly available in the form of an arcade game-large expensive consoles installed in public spaces that offered classic games like Space Invaders and Pacman consumed our pocket money. There were, of course, games for the new breed of microcomputer aimed at the consumer market, the Commodore 64 and the like, but these machines were not widespread, and unless a boy was lucky in his choice of friends, he was unlikely to have access to one.