Intellivision Memories
January 12, 2008 — Abe BatthishInteresting study:
BROOKLYN, NY—Nearly 50 percent of 26-year-old paralegal Philip Jenkins’ encoded long-term memories involve button combinations, game-playing experiences, and spatial-cognitive maps of various levels and worlds from Nintendo’s line of video-game consoles, a team of neuroscientists reported Tuesday.
It would be interesting to see how the commercial world is trying to relate and market to the video-gaming generation.
My first console was an Intellivision. As a 35 year old, my memories and spacial-cognitive maps are partially filled with crappier graphics (though considered “advanced” at the time) and less complex virtual worlds. Long hours of eye watering Astrosmash levels, and Tron Deadly Disks high scores ingrained in my head for decades. Wow.. there’s a page for that too? Wikipedia (authors) always seems to impress me.
Interesting. Could explain my addiction to my iPod video and why I mastered its controls so quickly.
What was I talking about?
January 12, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Oh, wow! I loved Intellivision while growing up. My siblings and I would spend countless hours playing the video games that were, at the time of its release, “way better than Atari.” I can’t for the life of me remember the game titles, but I distinctly recall fond memories. Thanks for this post. Cheers!