by Chris Kiriapolous
If you grew up in the seventies or eighties, your generation was the first to grow up in a world where video games were a common pastime enjoyed by children. In many cases, those children are now adults whose passion for video games has not died. Many households have several video game systems, and it's not uncommon for a fan of gaming to spend hours at a stretch on a single game.
Video games and their underlying technology have evolved a lot since Atari, Intellivision and ColecoVision held sway over the video game market. Measured against today's systems, the sprites and backgrounds that comprised early video games are the equivalent of children's drawings. Pong, the original video game, featured two rectangles and a circle, and the player used a knob to slide the rectangle back and forth in a virtual game of ping pong.
The Atari 2600, the first game console with replaceable game cartridges to have any kind of popular success, established the paradigm of modern gaming with its joystick directional control and fire button. A gamer would use two hands in conjunction to move the figure and execute an action. The original classic games, though basic, were ingenious enough to challenge the player's hand-eye coordination, and the fun they offered is still enjoyable today. Many are available free online as flash kids games.
The gameplay on these free online games has been adapted for play with a computer keyboard. Where game programmers decide to lay out the controls varies widely. The arrow keys make a natural directional control, but the fire key will be variously designated as the enter key, space bar, or control key.
Many games now use mouse controls for the gameplay, which involves a type of control that is not as reminiscent of the classic game experience. In the many incarnations of "Missile Command" on the web, where you attempt, always eventually in vain, to prevent your city's devastation from an infinite barrage of nuclear cruise missiles, you typically launch your anti-ballistic missiles by pointing at the screen with your mouse to aim them, and clicking the button to launch. The original involved a cursor you moved with a joystick. The challenge remains the same, but the gameplay is different-mousing is usually more agile than a joystick or a directional pad.
For the most part, though, the experience is preserved when you locate free online games that recreate the classics, and many of the big hits are out there. It's still fun to weave behind the shields and pick off invading aliens in Space Invaders; it's still challenging to weave through trucks, cars, alligators and snakes in Frogger; and it's still nerve-wracking to race through the maze against the ghosts in Pac Man. In their new incarnations as a free online flash <a href="http://www.ytv.com/games/">kids game</a>, they are often adorned with improved graphics and sound effects, but the original fun that kids of the eighties enjoyed is preserved. All the classic addictive fun is waiting online, for free.
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Title: Online Imitations Of Classic Video Games
Author: Chris Kiriapolous
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Keywords: free,online,games,kids,family,computers,technology,arts,entertainment,leisure,tv,fun,internet,recreation,men
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