Pre Second life Games.

William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called “Tennis for Two,” was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.

Now don’t worry I am not going get into a history lesson of games. Classic or none classic. But I do wish to point out the classic games never seem to die. And a good friend of mine from second life  Alexander Chapman Who has taking the time and energy to bring these links to play these games. And the story behind the game to you.

An example of this would be his fantastic blog post on a game ca…. well wait a moment why don’t I just show you it? i don’t think Alex will mind if I snag this from him.

Sierra´s Gem

Jones in the Fast Lane is a round based life-simulation game by Sierra where the player can play against 4 Competitors or against the Computer.

each round represents a week where your character (you can choose one of 4 at the beginning) is displayed as a tiny dot on a map, which you move from building to building to educate yourself, work at your job, pay your rent, buy food, clothing and much more.

after a week is ended its the turn of the next player to get his/her things done and the player wins who reached the goal which can be defined before the game starts.

i must say, i first was sceptical as i started to play the game..wondering if i will quit it after a few minutes but after playing it for hours, i realized i play here one of Sierra´s Gems.

the graphics are very nice drawn and the digitized and animated images gave the game a realistic touch, not to forget Sierra added in this Version digitized speech as well.

i would like to thank Yar Telling, a friend and resident of the virtual world Second Life to pointing me out to that very beautiful retro game.

And the link to play this game online

http://home.broadpark.no/~kboye/jones/jones.html

End of preview 

So there you have it a preview of this site brought to you by Alexander Chapman.

If you want more of these awesome games to play  and try out you will just have to head on over to his site.

Oh guess you want the link to his site now hu? Ok here it is

http://retroflash.net/