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December 2011 ~ Vol. 5, Issue 4
Where will video games be in a decade? By Jondi Soper G.A.M.E.R.S. Editor Back when I picked up my first game comtroller, if someone would have told me one day I would be the controller, I think I would have laughed at them - or giggled, since I was a young girl at the time. But look how far we have come in the world of video games - from the days of Atari or Commador 64 to the XBox 360 Kinnect and the Wii. With each new innovation in video gaming, it makes one wonder what they may come up with next? There was a time we might not have been able to imagine the graphics of a mere video game looking as vivid, colorful and real as they do today. Some of the games on the market are nothing short of pure art, not to mention the cinematics involved in some of them. Games today are not just
entertainment. You don’t just sit down for a bit and play. You are immersed into a different world, - be it fantasy, war, another era, another planet - with the way the games are designed, you - the player become every bit as much a part of the game as the components the designers input with lines of code. The first game I remember playing and loving was this silly game called “Hunt the Wumpus.” You were a little stick figure moving about a map, trying to fund this monster called the “wumpus.” You would reveal rooms on the map and the colors of the room would help you determine how close you were. You could eventually make a guess as to his location and try to shoot him, but if you guessed wrong? The wumpus ate you. I loved that game and if someone would have told me then that a few years later there would be
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Photo by Amy Vitale even better games in a few years on the first Nintendo system, I wouldn’t have believed them. And look at what we have now! How far we have come! So where will we be in
another year? How about five or 10? Maybe by then us lazy gamers won’t even have to get up off the sofa to look for our controller anymore.