“I just fought my way up a wind tunnel, scrambled through a ventilation duct, clambered across 40 yards of rope netting, rolled under a fence, and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized plastic spheres. Now I’m facing two doors. One leads to freedom. The other to a room with something nasty in it, possibly involving torture.“
That’s an excerpt from Wired’s latest report on a RPG (role playing game) played not on a computer or a console but in the real world. The company that manages this is a Spanish firm called Negone. Isn’t it wonderful how ‘out of the box’ people can think?
Yesterday there was an article in the paper that said that increased inactivity has an adverse effect on our IQ. The cells in the frontal lobe of the brain go into atrophy, which means that people become duller and the worst part is that this process is irreversible. The brain too needs a work out, the experts say. And I thought learning because you had to, was done away with once you finished college.
The Wired article got me thinking about the concept of arcade gaming. I like gaming and gaming consoles but arcade gaming isn’t something I have warmed up to. I prefer to sit in front of my PC or television and have a one on one with the machine or have a friend over and get into some ‘serious’ competition. As far as arcade gaming is I guess it’s the cost factor that deters me or it could be the noise levels, it’s as bad as a nightclub. Alsothe gameplay and graphics in arcade games seem archaic when compared to the new RPGs and racing games and an arcade strategy game doesn’t quite add up.
But the lure of something like La Fuga would be hard to resist. Imagine walking around looking for aliens in a dark dingy set up and shooting the bajeepers out of their blinking antennae. Running into medipacks that have a Handiplast and some antiseptic, collecting extra bullets or bonus points. And what if there is a “Hot Coffee” patch available for these as well. Toink Toink!!
