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Playing Zork on a typewriter

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http://upnotnorth.net/2010/10/29/a-new- ... h-fiction/

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Pretty hipster thing to do, but I think he's right about introducing Zork to a new audience. If you put this in galleries as an art installation, and did a tour of galleries a lot of people would probably play and enjoy this who otherwise wouldn't have, with the added bonus of finally settling the 'are games art' debate :troll:.

Still, it's an inferior way to play, that typewriter is too slow.
 

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If you put this in galleries as an art installation, and did a tour of galleries a lot of people would probably play and enjoy this who otherwise wouldn't have, with the added bonus of finally settling the 'are games art' debate
ZKM in Karlsruhe (huge contemporary art museum) has a few rooms dedicated to old games, though mostly arcades, and few more on the same floor for "game art" stuff (expectedly boring AF). I don't notice any effect on the debate though.
 

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I can play Zork on my smartphone. Some people can't let go of the past so much that they need to invent a new past that is even pastier than the actual past. Call me when you can play Zork with a pen.
 

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If you put this in galleries as an art installation, and did a tour of galleries a lot of people would probably play and enjoy this who otherwise wouldn't have, with the added bonus of finally settling the 'are games art' debate
ZKM in Karlsruhe (huge contemporary art museum) has a few rooms dedicated to old games, though mostly arcades, and few more on the same floor for "game art" stuff (expectedly boring AF). I don't notice any effect on the debate though.
That's the mistake. The kind of people who appreciate modern 'art' would probably be floored by this typewriter if they didn't know it was just a computer game. These are pretentious people, if you put it in with all the other games they'll immediately dismiss it. You have to place it alongside the random splatters of colour and arcane configurations of wire hangers and plastic coffee cups.
 

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If you put this in galleries as an art installation, and did a tour of galleries a lot of people would probably play and enjoy this who otherwise wouldn't have, with the added bonus of finally settling the 'are games art' debate
ZKM in Karlsruhe (huge contemporary art museum) has a few rooms dedicated to old games, though mostly arcades, and few more on the same floor for "game art" stuff (expectedly boring AF). I don't notice any effect on the debate though.
That's the mistake. The kind of people who appreciate modern 'art' would probably be floored by this typewriter if they didn't know it was just a computer game. These are pretentious people, if you put it in with all the other games they'll immediately dismiss it. You have to place it alongside the random splatters of colour and arcane configurations of wire hangers and plastic coffee cups.

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The kind of people who appreciate modern 'art' would probably be floored by this typewriter if they didn't know it was just a computer game. These are pretentious people, if you put it in with all the other games they'll immediately dismiss it. You have to place it alongside the random splatters of colour and arcane configurations of wire hangers and plastic coffee cups.
You know you are talking to a guy who writes about modern art for living, right? :lol:
 

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I can play Zork on my smartphone. Some people can't let go of the past so much that they need to invent a new past that is even pastier than the actual past. Call me when you can play Zork with a pen.
Bitch i play that shit with a primitive stone chisel and a piece of limestone.
 

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