Hi,
Just a little bit about myself:
I'm a gamer in the sense that I love games and have since the first time I played them. Used to play a lot more than I do now that I have certain responsibilities as an adult. Though I played pac-man when it came out on atari, my formative years were really back in the days of the nes. That rectangle controller and it's magic 2 buttons really felt right ( I really just count buttons A and B when I remember those days).
I'm kind of drunk, so sorry if I say something stupid.
Anyway, my question:
Does anyone know if there are any developers out there who pay better if the prospective employee knows the history of video games?
I don't know why, but I was drinking and reading about games when I remembered my high school years and thought "I would have killed to be able to take a video-game history class".
Does anyone know if there is such a thing?
I think that having people learn how the first video-games in the world played like would be an invaluable lesson for video-game creators of the present and future to have. Hell, I'll go as far as saying that teaching people how to program on those consoles (all the way from atari to the late play-station) can teach them a lot about developing for the modern consoles.
Does anyone know if there is a teacher in the world teaching young would be developers how and what original video-game developers had to deal with? is anyone really documenting video-games in the historical context which will be attributed to video-games once they become mainstream media like t-v and recorded movies?
Is internet history to be trusted as real history knowing that it can be changed in an instant or do we have to convert it into old-school media such as t-v and radio to convince people that video-games are a true form of media?
If anyone here knows the answers to these questions I'd be grateful. if any of you can simply point me in the right direction I'd be grateful too.
Again, I'm drunk, so I'm sorry if I'm all over the place.
-Z
Just a little bit about myself:
I'm a gamer in the sense that I love games and have since the first time I played them. Used to play a lot more than I do now that I have certain responsibilities as an adult. Though I played pac-man when it came out on atari, my formative years were really back in the days of the nes. That rectangle controller and it's magic 2 buttons really felt right ( I really just count buttons A and B when I remember those days).
I'm kind of drunk, so sorry if I say something stupid.
Anyway, my question:
Does anyone know if there are any developers out there who pay better if the prospective employee knows the history of video games?
I don't know why, but I was drinking and reading about games when I remembered my high school years and thought "I would have killed to be able to take a video-game history class".
Does anyone know if there is such a thing?
I think that having people learn how the first video-games in the world played like would be an invaluable lesson for video-game creators of the present and future to have. Hell, I'll go as far as saying that teaching people how to program on those consoles (all the way from atari to the late play-station) can teach them a lot about developing for the modern consoles.
Does anyone know if there is a teacher in the world teaching young would be developers how and what original video-game developers had to deal with? is anyone really documenting video-games in the historical context which will be attributed to video-games once they become mainstream media like t-v and recorded movies?
Is internet history to be trusted as real history knowing that it can be changed in an instant or do we have to convert it into old-school media such as t-v and radio to convince people that video-games are a true form of media?
If anyone here knows the answers to these questions I'd be grateful. if any of you can simply point me in the right direction I'd be grateful too.
Again, I'm drunk, so I'm sorry if I'm all over the place.
-Z
