Reading 03: Hooked on Wolfenstein

This was a fun reading assignment to say the least. It was great to see some of the old games that were popular for the first early popular PCs. I went and played Wolfenstein 3D, Zork I, Pac-Man, The Oregon Trail, and Connect 4. I played Wolfenstein for a while honestly…

Reading 04: If anyone has an extra Game Boy I could use one

Reading 00: Board Games Will Always Survive

Games always boil down to one thing, entertainment. Whether it’s entertainment to distract you, occupy your time, compete against others, or have some fun with your friends, if it wasn’t entertaining we wouldn’t still do it. Games go back all the way to…

Reading 02: Golden Games

So I tried to play a bunch of different games, but I think that many of them were designed to work with a game pad and not a standard laptop keyboard. I had to hunt around a lot and many times I either couldn’t play, or I’d figure out some of the controls but not all of them, and…

Reading 05: Classics and the future

I went back to the old standby for this reading assignment, COD. The last one that I ever purchased was Modern Warfare 3, and I replayed some of the campaign to get back into it. I haven’t bought every Call of Duty game out there, but all of the Modern Warfares for…

Reading 01: In the beginning

Early video games were all about what’s the most you can do with the least amount of resources. As we discussed in class, the very first games were all done with hardware only. The development of games were used as a way to bring computers to more people and show that these…