06-03-2006, 12:33 AM | #1 | |
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Thank you, Alan Kotok, for your vision to help pioneer video games
From this (Spacewar, 1962).....to this (Halo 3, Xbox360, 2007). Alan Kotok, 64, a Pioneer in Computer Video Games, Is Dead | The New York Times, June 3, 2006 Quote:
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06-03-2006, 02:14 AM | #2 | |
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But yeah, bye Alan, GG.
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06-03-2006, 07:20 AM | #3 |
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Thanks, cobsie. I edited the thread title. But Kotok should still be a paid respects to as someone who helped our beautiful little
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06-03-2006, 09:21 AM | #4 |
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I love those people, really love them all, although I know just a few by name. The biggest enjoyment I get from compilations of old games is watching the bonus interviews with aging games industry veterans. Their words open the window into a forever gone world, into the beginning of something whose future size and significance we still can't entirely fathom. Maybe I'm just deluding myself on that one, maybe games will never become more important than they presently are, but they still mean the world to me.
I remember collecting game related pages from computer magazines when I was a kid, stapling them together and reading over and over and over and over... I remember staring at pictures of all those beautiful game boxes in big catalogues our relatives would bring to us from Germany. I remember one of the first game reviews I've read being a review of Rogue Trooper, together with a map of the whole playing area. I remember spending countless hours examining the box of my copy of Space Harrier for C64, the only original game I had when I was a kid. I don't know, seems like in my case it was always more about worshipping the very idea of games, being excited because of their existance, than playing them. Kotok is one of the people who gave me all those memories, even though I had no idea he even existed up until this day. There are countless nameless others who made all this possible and of course I can't be anything but grateful to each and every one of them. And I also hate every one of those bastards, I should be studying now, not wasting my time on sentimental rubbish.
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