Computers playing computer games
Friday, March 30th, 2007The New York Times has a great piece today about retirees’ love of video games.
In the first photo, a nun is playing Bookworm. I bought that game for my mom a couple Christmases ago, and few months after us kids gave my parents their first computer. I don’t think she’s stopped playing since.
The second photo shows 63-year-old man competing in a “Nintendo Wii bowling league.” My parents bowl. I could imagine them getting into this.
But here’s the problem with Wii Bowling: With a few hundred Lego bricks and what appears to be nine lines of code, you can make a robot that can bowl a perfect game. Every time.
If all it takes to be the best in Wii bowling is to imitate a robot swinging the controller every 15 seconds, it’s not much of a game, is it?
