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Quick: What are video games going to look like in the year 2024? Will we be beaming games สล็อตฟรี directly into our brains? Will eXistenZ or The Matrix come to be a reality? Will Half-Life 3 finally come out? If we made our guesses now and wrote them down, future generations might look back on our predictions and laugh. Just as we can look back at this ทดลองเล่นสล็อตฟรี 1984 TV Gamer article—shared by Old Game Magazines— and drink in the outlandish predictions.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The article, by Mr. Richard Porch, is titled “How to play Adventures in the 1990s.” In it, he imagines an outlandishly opulent (and surprisingly specific!) video-game arcade of the future, where games have finally left the basement-like arcades of the 80s and hit prime time. The new arcades will stop inhabiting other people’s cast-off buildings with their faulty fluorescent lights, second-hand carpet-tile floors and Neanderthal arcade staff. Arcades of the 1990s will be purpose-built, computer-controlled leisure complexes, composed of gleaming ductwork, exposing servicing and steel supports. Acres of smoked mirror-glass will project an air of alien aerospace efficiency to the world, hinting vaguely at the almost incredible contests inside. The descriptions just get more breathless as the article continues: While-noise generators in overhead positions would create pools of quiet, in what could otherwise be a cacophonous environment. Gleaming steel escalators and glass lifts raise you through the main mass of the arcade assembly, giving you marvellous views through and over the terraced levels, alive with people colour and intriguing sound effects. The ‘whap-whap’ of the combat arcades mingles with the eerie cries and groans coming from the fantasy dome, as intrepid gamers confront Gothic doom in an urban arcade leisure complex. Winking neon signs advertising the latest software and fast-food bars catch the eye. Electronic news panels break the latest from the grim workaday world outside. And of course, the games themselves sound pretty cool, particularly the ones we control with (what else?) our direct brain-waves: In a still more advanced phase of the video games arcades’ future, you may be playing the game with the controls attached externally by electrodes to your skull. The game will take place directly inside your brain with minor electric shocks: the electrodes are strategically places to encourage the most startling mental imagery and confrontations, tapping resources from your subconscious mind. Using such a direct form of game playing format would obviously make for a totally unique experience and a different game every time. All your senses would be engaged, even down to taste and small sensations. I love everything about this article, particularly how it illustrates the ways the present informs our predictions about the future. In the 1980s, the arcade was king, so of course writers in the 1980s assumed that the future would simply mean more, better arcades. It’s perfectly logical! To read the full text of the article (and for a lot of other fine โปรโมชั่นสล็อต nostalgia), head over to Old Game Magazines, where they’ve transcribed the entire thing. You know what, now I actually am curious what you guys think gaming will look like in 2024. Gleaming escalators, skull-electrodes and Residential Games Motels? It could happen… [Source: Old Game Magazines via Dan Bruno]