AMMI

So, I was on the subway to work today and I don't know why I was so shocked but most of the people on the train, all adults, were playing games either on their iphones, or nitendo ds' but what I found the most interesting was one playing a game on the dark purple original color gameboy (of which I just found my clear purple one when moving last weekend). I don't know why I was so shocked to see someone playing it-could have something to do with how we value "newness" and the concept of buying the newest product. How many of you guys got the gameboy color when it came out?

on a slightly more serious note...this weekend I went to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens and they have a pretty cool video games section in which you can play the original old school video games (for a price of course). But, it was definitely interesting and pretty awesome to see original games such as Computer Space (1971), Pong (1972), Maneater (1975), Space Invaders (1978)....and many more. Here is their section on video games if any of you want to read up on it. It was an interesting experience to see games that I read about but could never can really imagine how big, simple, and amateur they actually were to games today.