Contextual Studies: Week 3

This week we watched a documentary on the history of games. This included games such as, Tennis for Two, Space Wars, Pong, Pac Man and Tetris. It revealed that quite a few of the games were responding to the public's interest and fears at the time. Oh and that Pac Man was created using the idea of a pizza with a slice missing. The work set for next week was to describe the first computer game you can remember playing.

The first game I remember playing was called Museum Madness. It involved moving round a museum fixing all of the robots which were reenacting important moments in history. Galileo had lost his mind and had forgotten all about his telescopes. All of the sea creatures were in the wrong exhibits, as well as most of the animals. The game was full of puzzles, how to make things right again. At the age of 7 I did not fully understand all of the different parts of the game such as environmental issues and the American civil war, it was fun none the less.