Single Player Game

After re-watching the clip of "King of Kong" I posted last week I noticed something that I did not pick up on right away. As Steve Wiebe was about to break a record on Donkey Kong, all the different people in the arcade came to the machine and huddle around Steve to watch him. I realized that there has been a big change in the way people can interact with each other through video games.In the more classic games it was a more solitary act. There were no two player games, or at least, not many so in order to have a bonding experience with people, they would crowd around and watch. I remember doing this when we played video games.

Of course this happens now but with the integration of the Internet allowing people to play each other all over the world more people have become participants compared to viewers. But as it was in the early days of video games, viewers still have to be in the same room as the player in order to watch them. This can be, and usually still is as fun as in the early years.

On a side note I found this link to a site that has been created for a database with hundreds of video games on it. The author created an "equation" on how to be a good gamer. He says it is a parody but I still found it interesting that he took time to create this and shows that he really into video games.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/