Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Wired News: The Ghost of Gaming Rip-Offs Past

Wired News: The Ghost of Gaming Rip-Offs Past:
Walking past the impressive collection of wrinkled mechanical gypsy fortunetellers and cavorting wooden barbershop quartets, I had a sudden feeling of familiarity. At first I assumed it was just a dim recollection of childhood, when I was regularly beaten by fortunetellers and barbershop quartet singers, but then I recognized it as something more: I realized that every major advance and genre in video gaming is actually a direct rip-off of these early diversions. For example:
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