Totally interactive
My middle name is not game. I have no plans to watch that big football match. I will not be looking around the channels to find a hockey game. In fact my real interest in games has been on slow simmer for most of my life. Except for that short time when I became interested in interactive fiction on the computer. The keyword here is infocom. I had a computer that could not do much else except type letters and play Zork. Quite enough to get me through the day and the night. I happened to watch a documentary on the history of those games. Fascinating if you like nerd stuff. What I learned was the price point. The company had a whole line of products that they sold at around $40. Their idea was that each game was good for about 40 hours of gameplay. You can do the math. And the games sold like crazy. The kicker was that these were none graphic games. All the action took place in your head. At the same time you were trying to solve puzzles. Some people like that. No competition. Just you and the keyboard. As I said the perfect place for a nerd. I think I still have the games around here. They were multi platform and I even found a version that I could play on a tablet. No high power gaming machine here. Unfortunately due to miss management the company disappeared. But many of us still remember the joy in finding our way around the basement of that little house in the woods. Good stuff. And if you could keep your stuff from getting stolen by a troll or other denizens of the tunnels you won. There were scores but there is no high score competition. Take that football fans. Very hard to put a bet on something that is just played between you and the computer.
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