12 February 2006
Raph’s Website » Are single-player games doomed?
The entire video game industry’s history thus far has been an aberration. It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
21 January 2006
The Essential 50 Part 44: Parappa the Rapper from 1UP.com
Graphics and images have been an integral part of every game ever made -- it's a visual medium, after all. What you see is what you get. Even the most primitive games that couldn't draw proper images onscreen at least gave you ASCII art or text. And so it went, throughout gaming history, until Parappa the Rapper finally brought a new sense into play: in NanaOn-Sha's PSone masterpiece, you had to rely on your ears as much as your eyes.
A History of Video Game Music
video game music is now a legitimate industry of its own.
16 January 2006
Slashdot | The Earliest Documented Video Game
"The first documented video game was created in 1952 by a scientist who felt the need to give his work relevance to society.
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