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Theescapist 088.Pdf control over our experience – is it any and the impact of his contributions, wonder that people become so involved? overshadowed by the later failure of the Virtual Boy, against the massive success Frequently, we hear conversation about Because the human input into the of his earlier works and inventions. how much of their lives people inject into entertainment experience is the novel In response to “Searching for games. Parents worry when little Johnny half of games’ fun equation, it often Gunpei Yokoi” from The Escapist Shigeru Miyamoto always got the credit doesn’t want to go outside, but would garners the most attention. The part Forum: Absolutely brilliant article. Such because his games sold more and he rather stay in by himself and play a where games reach out and touch our a well written homage to an oft- made the game that became the game. Family and friends worry when lives is so often ignored. Perhaps it’s that unheralded figure in the gaming world. company mascot (and admittedly, is they don’t hear from their child/sibling/ the line between what we do in games Few people realize who this man was responsible for several gaming mega- parent who was last seen wandering the and what games share with us is so franchises), but one has to wonder just plains of Azeroth. A newspaper gets wind vague. But those things are present … how much he gleaned from Yokoi’s of someone who has made themselves what are they? experience and tutelage. If Miyamoto sick - or worse - playing too long at hadn’t studied under Yokoi, would Mario some game. It is this question that has brought up or Zelda as we know them even exist? today’s issue of The Escapist: How do And while these cases are the extreme, games affect our real lives? From - armitage they are extreme versions of similar bringing us into a loving relationship feelings anyone into games has felt. I after years of no luck in the real world, In response to “Searching for occasionally worry about myself when to helping us learn to survive and use Gunpei Yokoi” from The Escapist my workday is too frequently punctuated military equipment, games have become Forum: The problem of “condensing” with thoughts pondering new ingredient important, not just to our entertainment information about the Japanese creators combinations for Dragon Quest’s needs, but throughout our daily lives. of early video games is widespread in Alchemy Pot. I’m sure you have your Find out more in this week’s issue of The videogame writing. It is monumentally own version. What’s the common theme Escapist, “Through the Looking Glass.” easier to browse through the available here? That we are obsessing, thinking, English sources of information on people pondering over the things we can do in Cheers, like Yokoi and compile them for an article the game world to progress, to enjoy, to than to actually add something new to learn. There is no other type of the story of their lives. entertainment that allows so much I understand that there is an exceedingly daunting language barrier, but if you really want to get to know people like In response to “The Indie Guru” Yokoi, then it is possible to do an from The Escapist Forum: I enjoyed interview. You don’t even have to go to the article and finding out about Steve Japan, people there have phones and Pavlina’s site. email. To say “The only hard proof we have that Gunpei Yokoi graced this As for your endeavour to Malaysia, this mortal soil is a few faded black and Malaysian reader wishes you well and white photographs” is just wrong, and a frankly speaking, it’s not the desert that bit insensitive. What about his family? people make it out to be. Networking is What about his co-workers? I’m sure easy here once you’re here and the Shigeru Miyamoto has some ripping good community as a whole is a small group yarns about him, why not ask? The altogether. And for the person who said history of early Japanese videogames is that there may be problems in certainly shrouded in mystery--but communication, there’s more imported videogame writers often just accept this, sitcoms than there are local sitcoms in and, even more often, present it as the local language. some sort of exaggerated conundrum for dramatic effect. -Myremi I’d also like to point out that this sort of In response to ‘A Natural Born article seems to reveal an uncomfortable Inventor” from The Escapist Forum: trend in videogame journalism (a double Who are we to argue with the father of standard?), whereby American and video gaming? European videogame authors (even those mysterious programmers of the - Ramification golden-era) get interviewed and profiled, but Japanese authors receive a nostalgic The children of video gaming, of course. and mysterious homage. Just look at the other articles in this month’s issue. - Meophist -S. Claiborn As you maneuver your tank across the fuel, motor oil and propellant, you can’t field of battle, one eye on the threat wait to do it again. indicators, one eye on the horizon, you feel an icy sliver of fear deep in your gut. JTEP (Joint Training Experimentation You know this isn’t real war, you know Program) was created for the California your enemy is virtual, but the tension National Guard by SRI International, and Virtual Bullet, feels the same. The threat, real. since 2003 has been used in a variety of Although the enemy is simulated, he’s live exercises using existing military not dumb, and it will take every ounce of vehicles retrofitted with computer your skill to search him out and destroy simulation equipment, GPS transceivers, him before he does the same to you. speakers and flashing lights. The goal, VIRTUAL according to JTEP Program Manager John Your objective: Maneuver your tank from Shockley, is to “enhance the overall Point A to Point B and destroy him. Your guard training experience and training reward: survival. It may sound like just value. [These] are real vehicles, they’re another mission in just another game, but doing real maneuvering, they’re doing this is no game. You are a member of the real radio communications, all that. We California National Guard, and this is JTEP. just simulate the bullet.” by Russ Pitts As your tank eases over the next hill, Shall We Play a Game? GUN you see him; hull down a quarter mile The idea of learning to fight war by away, waiting for you. The next few playing soldier is not a new one. The first seconds feel like they’re happening in wargames (that we know of) were slow motion. You see the flash a half- conducted in the 19th century, to better second before you hear the shot. You understand tactics and strategy, and don’t see the projectile, but a second similar wargames are being played by later you feel it. Alarms go off, the lights soldiers the world over. The idea of dim and the sound of the explosion learning war by playing a computer almost ruins your new speakers. You’re game is also not a very new idea, dead. The game is over. And as you although the depth and breadth of climb out of your tank, your nose simulations have increased exponentially stinging from the acrid smell of diesel in recent years, following the production space to become a warrior. Perhaps, as a fighter pilot, and no computer in the of even faster, better computers. the inverse of Ender’s Game, the idea of world can completely simulate the real becoming a fighter pilot in space seemed thing. Yet. But there is one area of The concept of all-out war waged via a touch far-fetched, but using a military training that not only benefits computer terminals entered the public videogame as a flight simulator? Well, from computer-enhanced simulation, it consciousness in the mid-’80s via Orson we were already there. Or at least the also demands it. Scott Card’s stunning science fiction novel, military was. Albeit in tilt-a-whirl style. Ender’s Game, in which a group of young Remote Control boys are trained in war, using a type of Aside from being crude, large and fairly “The UAV (Unmanned Arial Vehicle) virtual reality simulator. Needless to say, basic, military-grade simulators in the Training Center’s simulators are said to when Card wrote his novel, the idea of late 20th century were also exorbitantly be so realistic, it would be difficult to training boys to fight war may not have expensive. Which, considering the distinguish, without previous knowledge, seemed far-fetched, but the technology military’s annual budget, may not seem between them and the actual ground did. Computers at that time were barely like much of a problem, but when the stations,” writes Patrick Chisholm in a capable of drawing pictures, and military cost of running a simulator exceeds the November 2005 article appearing in simulators often filled entire rooms and cost of burning a jet engine for a few Military Training Technology. provided little more stimulation than was hours, why not just go up? Simulators, to be had from a tilt-a-whirl. therefore, have most often been UAVs are basically miniature airplanes relegated for use simulating high-risk controlled via remote control, from a Much closer to home (and in the same tasks (such as space flight) or for when computer station, and until fairly genre) was the popular filmThe Last hands-on training is neither possible nor recently required, as with actual Starfighter, in which a young man living desirable.
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