richard-slater.co.uk » Richard Bartle http://www.richard-slater.co.uk Jesus, Life, Programming and Systems Administration Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bartle claims victory in battle http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2008/04/28/bartle-claims-victory-in-battle/ http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2008/04/28/bartle-claims-victory-in-battle/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:36:50 +0000 Richard Slater http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/?p=88 I am sure that title is going to annoy someone an awful lot, but never mind. Richard Bartle submitted an opinion piece to The Guardian today, and as he puts it in his blog it is “Opinionated”.

I like it! I think it is something I had realised and accepted a long time ago (I was born in 1981) games are part of the norm for me. I learnt to program on a ZX Spectrum when I was 8, what did I write – computer games of course – pong, breakout, Thunderbirds (TV Series), rolling shooters. I even tried to write a Windows like GUI in BASIC (yes it had some serious design flaws). All of that was normal to me.

In case you missed the link above, here is opinion piece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/28/games.censorship

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