Since I've been posting about video games lately, I wanted to share a cool series of videos that I saw on BoingBoing.
The Monkey Buddha Archives:
These informative & nostalgic videos trace the history of one of my favorite aspects of video games- the graphics.
Here is a link to a video playlist of the whole series:
YouTube Playlist
Although the game play & story are extremely important in making a quality video game, being a graphic artist makes me especially interested in the visual aspects of games.
I was born in 1978, and my first game console was Atari 2600. Through the years my brothers & I had the Atari, Commodore 64, Nintendo NES, Sega Genesis, and the Sony Playstations.
I've personally watched the evolution of gaming progress from using monochrome, blocky pixels to the photorealistic, immersive 3D graphics we see today. In fact, I feel like my life has progressed in parallel to the development of video game technology.
Pitfall, 1982
Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception, 2007
As new systems (including virtual reality interfaces like Oculus Rift) are developed, we will be opening new possibilities of what the human mind can experience.
The distinction between the "real" world and digital worlds will continue to be merged. People will keep exploring new ways for our nervous system to interface with the infinite possibilities that arise from the realms of our imagination.
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