Week 9..........Game Tech

Even though technology has hastened an provided us with all kinds of disks an gadgets to interact with computers an consoles, when it comes down to choosing the easiest to use, you cant help but dodge all the current generation technology and jump back a few steps.

Although personally at the moment my favourite console has to be the 360, good mix of graphical power and design, I have to chose the good old Mega drive, yes its clunky, game cartridges are the most ineffective use of material to store games BUT it was easy to use purely for the fact it was clunky and used cartridges. With modern technology your completely at the mercy of the machine because any one of the bazillion resistors/capacitors/transistors could die at anytime an then your screwed, but Mega Drive tech is so old and steam pump that it makes it indestructible :P but then back in those days things were made to last (oh god old man talk !!! :O)

If the game didn’t work you would crank the cartridge out blow hard into it and chuck it back in and hey presto, one working game but now the slightest scratch an your game is doomed, not to mention making sure you console is sitting at the right angle for fear of it shredding it up with the laser!!

The controllers were simple; u can’t really go wrong with a D-pad and 3 buttons, except after Track and Field and the excessive button hammerings and again, when something is made out of nails, rope and wood nothing can really go wrong, but with high tech stuff like the 360 and PS3 you pretty much doomed if you think that controller is going to live through a brief tantrum after you died for the 11th time against some 10 year old from Uzbekistan.


The PS2’s controller is a win in my books, even though I don’t really like the PS2, as far as ergonomics go it had it all, plenty of buttons to map out those not so simple games, easily accessible an well positioned, Microsoft’s attempt was close but no cigar.
It may be my favourite console, but seriously, I cannot stand those piddley little shoulder buttons, when you rely lots on the big hefty good triggers, having to navigate up to some hidden shoulder button is irritating, the PS2 at least had them both as shoulder buttons so you know what to look for, top button or bottom button, not huge trigger an ickle button o aren’t I so cute.....NO!