26 May
2010
26 May
'10
6:42 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
Sometimes simplicity is nice -- the lack of flashy
graphics lets you
concentrate on playing the game.
Carried to its logical extreme by (most) Infocom
games, as they proudly
explained in their "We stick our graphics where the sun don't shine"
advertising campaign with the illustration of a glowing brain:
http://www.atarimania.com/pubs/hi_res/pub_infocom.jpg
"You'll never see Infocom's graphics on any computer screen. Because
there's never been a computer built by man that could handle the images
we produce. And, there never will be.
"We draw our graphics from the limitless imagery of your imagination--a
technology so powerful, it makes any picture that's ever come out of a
screen look like graffiti by comparison."
Unfortunately they seem to have forgotten that not too many years later.
Sigh.
