"future Games": a 24 year old artical predicts how games will be in the year 2000

Paul Heslop...

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found by Zonar on GAF

guyjin...

What magazine was this article from, and when?

Relic...

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Brenden D. Chase...

LOL, that's awesome! I love the "Radio" checkers/chess.

Miles Bader...

Well... if you give them a bit of leeway, wifi is radio after all. :-)

[It's hard to believe they actually meant the games' radio transmitter
would transmit hundreds of miles -- that's obviously silly. Presumably
they had some sort of staged communication in mind, although maybe
radio->phone-modem or something.]

getrich...

And if you think of celular phones? I think he was thinking walkie
talkie things. Shortwave radio can go long distance.

Problem with long term predictions is some other innovation comes along
and that becomes the means by which the proposed solution in the
prediction takes instead of the idea originally in mind.

What is interesting is, 2006-2007, we don't have TV quality videogames
in a handheld. The PSP is not there yet.

riku...

What do you mean by TV quality? Nintendo DS seems pretty good, e.g.
Nintendogs.

- The Rich

getrich...

Apparently something like the "Internets" wasn't on their mind in 1976.

Raymond Martineau...

IIRC, they were developing ARPANET at that time.

Maybe they should of talked to Al Gore back then. :-P

I will say the rest is somewhat in the ballpark

Raymond Martineau...

Only the left-hand side was accurrate. On the right, we don't have
supercomputer-style games - usually you see the TV, handheld or
personal computer games instead.

getrich...

Massive multiplayer online games would be somewhat close to that, with
the Internet being the connection medium. The article was written
before client-server technology came into being.

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- The Rich

riku...

I'm surprised how well they have predicted things, even though not all
of it happened in ten years. For example handheld games: yep, big
thing nowadays, I think quite a few Nintendo DSes were sold this
Christmas. The first two pictures reminded your normal FIFA'07 or
Rome: Total War session, albeit the latter not on TV.

Also, multiplayer games are big thing nowadays. They didn't predict
people would be connected from their homes, though. I guess I can't
blame them for that, even phone line BBSes were scifi in 1976 (if that
was the year for that article).

As for the "radio chess", didn't some handhelds (PSP? Gameboy
Advance?) offer the ability to play games together with people in the
near vicinity? They didn't use Internet for that.

riku...

Why call "football" something where you are mostly carrying the ball
with your hands and throwing it? It's called "rugby with padding".

Jonah Falcon...

Paul Heslop...

ls?

It's actually American Football isn't it?

wikipedia has

"In some English-speaking countries, the word "football" may mean any
one of several games, or the ball used in that game. Because of the
existence of different kinds of "football", controversy =97 usually
friendly in nature =97 may result from unqualified usage of the word.

In most countries in which English is an official language, the word
"football" usually refers to Association football, also known as
soccer. Of the 45 national FIFA affiliates in which English is an
official or primary language, only three =97 Canada, Samoa and the
United States =97 have "soccer" in the name of their governing body
(rugby union being the implicitly dominant ball-game in Samoa.)"

"In the United States, the word "football" refers to American
football. Association football is called "soccer"."

Because that's what it's called. Why called it curling when nothing curls?

Steph...

It's called "curling" because things do "curl"
Origin: 1610–20; perh. curl + -ing1, from the motion imparted to the sliding
stones

The picture of the "ultimate game" reminded me of Descent Freespace 2.
;) Or if we want to talk about late 80s (which was what they were
predicting?), playing Elite or Starglider 2 on Commodore Amiga.

elrous0...

That article is a fake. The terms "hand-held" and "quadraphonic sound"
are from completely different eras, just one of the many tip-offs.

John...

Bollocks.

I own the childrens' book that this scan comes from. It's completely
accurate.

Brian Siano...

"Quadraphonic sound" dates back to the late 1960s. "Hand-held' dates
back as far as things could be held in one's hand, probably.

John...

It's this one :