Alternate Reality waffle (re: What happened to Philip Price)

[Kit Kimes]

#==========lre...@fast.net, 6/22/95==========
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# I'll always have a special place in my memories for AR
#City. Someday I guess
#I'll break out my Atari's and show my Son & Daughter (3 & 2 now)
#this stuff. Will
#it be a fascinating history lesson or will it bore them to tears
#in this age of VR
#instead or AR?

I never played the AR series much (I have the Dungeon with a nice map),
but I spent a lot of time playing Infocom's text adventures. When you
are playing them and thinking about what to do, etc., it is easy to picture
what is going on in your mind. But my son, who is 19 now, could never
see my fasination with these things. Looking back, I would have probably
have felt the same way just looking over someone's shoulder. It's like
reading a book: it only is really engrossing when you are doing it and
picturing things in your mind. I find it harder to do if someone else is
doing the reading.

Kit Kimes
AT&T Resource Link (under contract to ATT-GIS)
Naperville, IL USA
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[lre...@fast.net]

>
>I never played the AR series much (I have the Dungeon with a nice map),
>but I spent a lot of time playing Infocom's text adventures. When you
>are playing them and thinking about what to do, etc., it is easy to picture
>what is going on in your mind. But my son, who is 19 now, could never
>see my fasination with these things. Looking back, I would have probably
>have felt the same way just looking over someone's shoulder. It's like
>reading a book: it only is really engrossing when you are doing it and
>picturing things in your mind. I find it harder to do if someone else is
>doing the reading.
>
>
>Kit Kimes

Yeah Kit, you're probably right about that (sigh). I guess this is just something
that'll just die with us. If the kids can't be coaxed into discovery for themselves
and kindle their OWN interest in something, I guess they never really truly
internalize it.

Despondently,
Larry