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Dec. 19th, 2003 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusNice article that only says what many of us have said for years. Put the fun back into our video games! MSN article on nostalgic games
The article makes connections between video games and sonnets, saying, "Often it's restrictions, not freedoms, that inspire creativity." I have been previous blasted for suggesting the same thing...I have often suggested that artists who make free-form art, without restrictions on style, cost, or materials, are lesser artists than those who produce greatness within assigned (even self-assigned) boundaries. I suppose the same can be said of politicians...
The article makes connections between video games and sonnets, saying, "Often it's restrictions, not freedoms, that inspire creativity." I have been previous blasted for suggesting the same thing...I have often suggested that artists who make free-form art, without restrictions on style, cost, or materials, are lesser artists than those who produce greatness within assigned (even self-assigned) boundaries. I suppose the same can be said of politicians...
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Date: 2003-12-19 10:04 am (UTC)I was at a game convention a few years ago. All the new consoles were taken with large crowds around them watching the game play, so I sat down at the abandoned old Atari and started playing. A guy walked up and wanted to play, too. We chose Tank Battle, and we had a great time playing Tank Battle in all its clunky glory. I think we played some Warlords, too. When we got finished, we had the largest crowd in the room watching.
Lesson: old <> bad.