I appreciated your reference to Alexander Nestor Haddaway even if ‘noby noby’ else has picked up on it.

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“Play”… voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities that are normally associated with pleasure and enjoyment.

I have purposely ignored “Linger In Shadows”, “Flower”, “Noby Noby Boy”, and any other titles that I have not been able to play prior to purchase, but certainly all three have been receiving very good reviews. They don’t sound like my kind of pastime, but then I thought that about “LittleBIGPlanet” (and how wrong I was there!). So if all else fails & next month we have negative interest rates, then the PlayStation Store will pay me to deposit funds into my virtual wallet & I’ll make money playing them

OK, it’s not going to happen, but it is an objective in any respect.

I first started console-based gaming with “Pong” on a Coleco Telstar Alpha model 6030 in 1977.

In some respects just when you think every genre, original idea, and not-so original idea has been used on home video game entertainment systems, along comes another.

I applaud the bravery & diversity of design, development, and production teams to both scrape the bottom of the proverbial wooden barrel as well as those that jump over it whilst scaling towers of excellence to bring us new incentives to spend our dwindling disposable income in both new & inventive ways.

For every “Elefunk” with a simple notion to traverse from one side of the screen to another there is a “Grand Theft Auto” with such a complex & over-the-top objective system. Both test the resilience, patience, & longevity of the player to differing degrees.

New ideas with their simple nature sometimes surprise you as to why such a direction has not been attempted previously.

Odd ideas are revamped, remodelled, and re-sold to later generations or indeed the same generations of the gaming public that it is equally surprising that Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Frogger, Battlezone, Asteroids, and Hunchback are not released every year to catch the next intake of eager participants. All are still good wastes of time, and good examples of when an idea is time immortal.

(What next? Releasing a compilation of older console titles for the PS3? That’ll never happen. Oh…)
Perhaps a good follow-up request to this blog entry would be for each of us to list which title was our first introduction to the video game concept & whether you can still gain enjoyment from it today.

As Marcus Brigstocke once stated (albeit incorrectly attributed to a Chief Executive Officer at Nintendo), “If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music”.

“Pac-Man” did affect me. It is one title that is relatively easy to develop on even the simplest of gaming platforms, but still a title that I will never quite master (even though I have previously written my own variations of the game-play some 25 years ago)

Games such as this, and my beloved “Pong”, are simple in premise, but the ability to test oneself just one more time is what makes a good game, regardless of how it is presented, and regardless of how it is played.

The only objective should be to have fun whilst trying.

BFN,

fp.

At the refinery atm on veteran, 1 word - HOLY MOTHER OF GAWD!!!!

ok…that was 3 words and a “gawd” but its so hard *sobs*

On Veteran?!!

I think, to use the parlance of our times, I am going to get pwnd in the threespeech clan!

Only played Nobi Nobi for about 15 minutes so far, and all I can say is that I’m finding it interesting. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I did laugh out loud when I managed to pull a house from one level to another. Very gratifying. I’ll report back when I I’ve played more. Still need to finish KZ2 on Veteran first.

Flower however is a real treat.

What’s the age rating on this game?

@Sketchy - let the self-flagellation begin!