On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote: >> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that >> > you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the >> > primary high performance market - gamers. >> > >> > Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I >> > don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different. >> > Those egg-heads are very important > See previous reply in thread to James. This one was not threaded, but rather, > a reply to the OP, so it makes it look as if you haven't read the thread. > > I played one computer game one day in 1990. Lost that entire day to that > stupid game, and never played again. Except...one time for a few hours with a > new friend the second year living in China. He wanted me to play NFS. After > playing a few races with him, I explained that we do this with _real_cars_ on > _real_roads_ in _real_life_ "back in America". It developed from the days of > moonshining, and your car (and you as a driver) weren't anything if you > couldn't outrun the local cops. ;) > > My gaming yawn was a poor, and needless, expression of disgust.
The last two games I played with any seriousness were Leisure Suit Larry and TombRaider.... that was back in the days when interactive games with decent graphics were still new-ish My kids OTOH, they have umbilical feeds to the XBox. And like you, Dad prefers racing real cars and real bikes -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
