Topic: 20th Century Gaming English Class - guess what's in it?

[CrazyEnzo03]

I'm taking a class as a free elective this spring semester.  It is a Composition II class with a special topic called 20th Century Gaming.

Here is a list of the games covered:

Black Isle - PLANESCAPE: TORMENT
Sierra - PHARAOH
Black Isle/Interplay - FALLOUT
Interplay - DESCENT
Square Enix - TOMB RAIDER
Cyan - MYST
Id/Apogee - COMMANDER KEEN
Origin - ULTIMA IV
Sierra - KING’S QUEST I, II, III
Sierra - SPACE QUEST I
Infocom - ZORK I: THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM

I will be expected to write two papers, take a couple of exams and do weekly homework, not to mention about 3 hours assigned gaming per week.

[Kaiaatzl]

Keep us posted with what you "learn" .

[Naphtha]

Man, I wish I could've taken something like that at my college.  I'd say "Have fun," but that's pretty much a given.

[Scyphi]

Whoa, Descent AND Commander Keen? 

...

You sure you didn't just die and go to heaven?

[TechPro]

Every game in that list were either very significant to the 'gaming community' or (in most cases) were groundbreaking with the technology/methods used.

[CrazyEnzo03]

I have never played Commander Keen.  I have never even owned a copy of it.  I had Jazz Jackrabbit but it wouldn't install on the old computer I played games on when we got it.  A large chunk of Masters of Doom talks about id developing it and how Adrian Carmack got so pissed off for having to draw cute stuff.  =]

There's a lot of games in the list that I have, sadly, not played, including the original Fallout (!), though I have Fallout 2.  Still never played that one either.

[CrazyEnzo03]

Guys

There's a chance that because of this class, all of the games on this list might be installed on the gaming computers in the student technology center.

[Kaiaatzl]

I hope none of your classmates get motionsick...


The scary thing though, is that I care about that news.  And I'm not sure why.  I'm pretty sure it doesn't make sense.

[Scyphi]

Commander Keen is the only gaming title I've ever shown interest from id, so I'm somewhat bias on that matter.

Please let us know how the class handles these individual games, especially Descent!

[-<WillyP>-]

Please let us know how the class handles these individual games, especially Descent!

My guess, a third of the class will report motion sickness, a third will claim the controls are too hard to learn. The other third will be fans for life.

[Kaiaatzl]

XD.

[Scyphi]

Kind of predicting that myself, but hey, a guy can hope.

[TechPro]

Here's to "Fans for Life"!  Cheers!

[Matthew]

It's good to see Descent getting the recognition it deserves for being the groundbreaking game that it was.

[CrazyEnzo03]

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