I’m not much of a gamer,but I believe Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell may have put his finger on what is often lost from mobile games – a lesson he last week told the Guardian many have yet to memorize from the early arcade games.
“When you look at mobile and arcade gaming, they’re identical, and ” Bushnell says. Mobile has some of the same game constraints for the player,and that ‘easy to memorize, and difficult to master’ metric.” This common phrase is, or as it happens,known as Bushnell’s law’ – he first uttered it in 1971 while making his preliminary steps into the arcade commerce with seminal coin-op Computer Space.com
That lesson dating back to the days when Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Breakout for Atari – was something arcade games designers had to memorize if they wanted to fetch people first to try a game and then to preserve feeding in the coins … more…
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Source: 9to5mac.com