Computer - a partner in the game.
Personal computers (PCs) in the early days of its appearance (early 80s) were in the main entertainment purposes. The first PCs were sold as a kind of toy. They could play a special game, known as "video games". The computer output in 1984 had the appearance of keyboard unit is slightly thicker album for drawing. It connects to any home TV and a standard cassette tape recorder. After that you can put on a tape cassette with the recorded program video games on it and turn the tape recorder for playback. The program is entered, or as they say, "boot" in memory of the PC and you can start the game.
Here is a typical video game for preschoolers. The screen in the center - blue robot, and the edges are placed portable garden sprayers. At the bottom of the flower grows, which attack all the time hungry caterpillars, scurrying across the screen. The player can control the robot, moving it in all four directions. If the robot takes one spaced from the corners of sprayers, it is "arming" to control caterpillars. When the robot is already sprayer, you can get him to press the trigger, killing the larvae. If you delay, then the caterpillars will eat the flower or the robot and the game is lost.
But the game more difficult. Required to find the treasure hidden in a cave, overcoming various obstacles in the form of mazes, monsters and the gnomes. During the trip you want to use different "magic" little things, putting them on the road, and not to fall into the trap generously scattered.
With a PC you can play video games and the popular "hockey", "tennis", to fight a tic-tac-toe, battleship, chess and video games, etc. attracted not only children but also adults.
It is important to note that the same game home microcomputer, which you can spend hours in the sea battle fought, successfully served as a tireless tutor offering arithmetic or physical problems, and then carefully checking their decision. He will remind the grammar rule that has forgotten student will color the drawing to easily fitted within the memory of a difficult theorem, re-explain the topic, if the student was ill or was not very attentive in class. This is what we describe in detail in the next section. |