November 28, 2014 at 11:09How Danish children were shown the history of game building
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Revision: Scandinavian gaming day. One day filled with games in your library. With the support of the Nordic Game Institute (the language does not dare to translate this as the Scandinavian Games Institute) and the Nordic Council of Ministers (Scandinavian Council of Ministers).
I went by accident, with a child, to play in the library. I saw the poster before, but since I have Oculus Rift at home, I was not at all interested. Well, how can they surprise me?
First, a few words about Danish libraries. Libraries have long ceased to be a place where they take to read books. I would say that now this is not even its main purpose. Mostly people come there to use the Internet, print, copy. In addition to books, you can take discs with music, films (but not the newest), console games (for 2 weeks give a maximum), and board games.
There is a children's corner, with books and toys for the smallest and with modern consoles, for older. This is what it looks like:
Xbox One
PS4
Wii U
iPad and Nintendo DS
For some reason, apart, Xbox360 with Minecraft turned on all in
one word, in step with the times.
Here you go. I, therefore, will go with the child to the library, and here such a machine meets me:
But this is so, flowers. A few more steps, and my jaw dropped. Here they are berries: The
coolest Spectrum with a built-in tape recorder. I have never seen such a thing. When I read the word Kempston Joystick, I almost cried.
UPD: the wise Quester suggests that the Amstrad CPC is not a Spectrum, but its partially compatible counterpart, released at the same time, as a direct competitor. On the same Z80, with the same games, but there is no direct compatibility.
We go further:
Commodore 64. I have never met live. As I understand it, it was not widespread in the post-Soviet space, unlike the Spectrum.
Nintendo Entertaiment System. Dandy. I also saw the original for the first time. In my childhood, not far from home, opened the rental of 8-cue ball. It was quite expensive - I did not often succeed in asking for money for rent, and only for great services at school and at home. When, nevertheless, this happy day came, I naturally did not close my eyes all 24 hours of rent.
A middle-aged uncle was sitting at the box office and playing games, and around, children were crowding around for days - watching him play. Part - at the counter, part - on the street by the window. From there it was very hard to see, but it did not stop anyone. They could stand all day. From life was!
And the last hero is the Sega Mega Drive. 16-cue ball. Dream ... As far as it seemed, unattainably cool ... She was not at the box office. She was only with one of my classmate. Once I persuaded him for money to give me a rental for two days, when his parents left somewhere. Of course, I did not go to school. He had a Dune! Ordos, Harkonen ... True, there was no memory card, so it was impossible to save. Remember this amazing joystick control? Soldiers are allocated only one at a time ... and the minimap cannot be used. Allocated - and drove to scroll to the other end of the field. Then - the next one. Repeat until victory. In general, I passed it.
Now, as I think, this is horror, unhappy children. Parents allowed to play for some time before going to bed. You put this Dune and spy. And here - “Ten hours! Turn off and sleep! ". Ahhh! And turn it off to start all over again the next day. And since there were only a couple of cartridges with games - there was replayability - oh-oh-her! Only when the ancestors left somewhere, was it possible to pass the toy to the end.
So, something I was distracted. In the library, the kids were interested and enjoyed playing all these unprecedented echoes of such a distant era for them. After all, the oldest thing these children could play was the Xbox360 and computers on Prescott. Modern consoles were empty, and kids were crowding around the old ones. Nice damn it! Especially popular was the Dandy with a pistol and shooting at ducks. Probably everyone reading these lines knows what it is.
Oh yes. There was also Oculus Rift, for which there was no queue either. Everyone tried it all once. In the end, more adults had fun.
There were still board games, but few people played them:
After the event, there was a locker from which you can rent old consoles for rent.No, this locker is standing there all the time, and apparently stood somewhere in the far corner before. I asked, they just didn’t throw out prefixes from the old days, they give up until they break.
That's all. In my opinion, a wonderful promotion. It is doubly remarkable that it is not carried out by private enthusiasts, but by organizations with the support of the state (although, of course, most likely, enthusiasts simply pushed the idea where it should be). I would like it to be possible not only in socialist Denmark, but also in capitalist Russia :)
Thank you for your attention.
Till!
Revision: Scandinavian gaming day. One day filled with games in your library. With the support of the Nordic Game Institute (the language does not dare to translate this as the Scandinavian Games Institute) and the Nordic Council of Ministers (Scandinavian Council of Ministers).
I went by accident, with a child, to play in the library. I saw the poster before, but since I have Oculus Rift at home, I was not at all interested. Well, how can they surprise me?
First, a few words about Danish libraries. Libraries have long ceased to be a place where they take to read books. I would say that now this is not even its main purpose. Mostly people come there to use the Internet, print, copy. In addition to books, you can take discs with music, films (but not the newest), console games (for 2 weeks give a maximum), and board games.
There is a children's corner, with books and toys for the smallest and with modern consoles, for older. This is what it looks like:
Xbox One
PS4
Wii U
iPad and Nintendo DS
For some reason, apart, Xbox360 with Minecraft turned on all in
one word, in step with the times.
Here you go. I, therefore, will go with the child to the library, and here such a machine meets me:
But this is so, flowers. A few more steps, and my jaw dropped. Here they are berries: The
coolest Spectrum with a built-in tape recorder. I have never seen such a thing. When I read the word Kempston Joystick, I almost cried.
UPD: the wise Quester suggests that the Amstrad CPC is not a Spectrum, but its partially compatible counterpart, released at the same time, as a direct competitor. On the same Z80, with the same games, but there is no direct compatibility.
We go further:
Commodore 64. I have never met live. As I understand it, it was not widespread in the post-Soviet space, unlike the Spectrum.
Nintendo Entertaiment System. Dandy. I also saw the original for the first time. In my childhood, not far from home, opened the rental of 8-cue ball. It was quite expensive - I did not often succeed in asking for money for rent, and only for great services at school and at home. When, nevertheless, this happy day came, I naturally did not close my eyes all 24 hours of rent.
A middle-aged uncle was sitting at the box office and playing games, and around, children were crowding around for days - watching him play. Part - at the counter, part - on the street by the window. From there it was very hard to see, but it did not stop anyone. They could stand all day. From life was!
And the last hero is the Sega Mega Drive. 16-cue ball. Dream ... As far as it seemed, unattainably cool ... She was not at the box office. She was only with one of my classmate. Once I persuaded him for money to give me a rental for two days, when his parents left somewhere. Of course, I did not go to school. He had a Dune! Ordos, Harkonen ... True, there was no memory card, so it was impossible to save. Remember this amazing joystick control? Soldiers are allocated only one at a time ... and the minimap cannot be used. Allocated - and drove to scroll to the other end of the field. Then - the next one. Repeat until victory. In general, I passed it.
Now, as I think, this is horror, unhappy children. Parents allowed to play for some time before going to bed. You put this Dune and spy. And here - “Ten hours! Turn off and sleep! ". Ahhh! And turn it off to start all over again the next day. And since there were only a couple of cartridges with games - there was replayability - oh-oh-her! Only when the ancestors left somewhere, was it possible to pass the toy to the end.
So, something I was distracted. In the library, the kids were interested and enjoyed playing all these unprecedented echoes of such a distant era for them. After all, the oldest thing these children could play was the Xbox360 and computers on Prescott. Modern consoles were empty, and kids were crowding around the old ones. Nice damn it! Especially popular was the Dandy with a pistol and shooting at ducks. Probably everyone reading these lines knows what it is.
Oh yes. There was also Oculus Rift, for which there was no queue either. Everyone tried it all once. In the end, more adults had fun.
There were still board games, but few people played them:
That's all. In my opinion, a wonderful promotion. It is doubly remarkable that it is not carried out by private enthusiasts, but by organizations with the support of the state (although, of course, most likely, enthusiasts simply pushed the idea where it should be). I would like it to be possible not only in socialist Denmark, but also in capitalist Russia :)
Thank you for your attention.
Till!