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Computer games were, at one time, unified. We didn’t even have the term “casual game” in 1993, let alone the idea that a first-person shooter (then an unnamed genre) could be considered a “hardcore title.” There were people who played computer games, and people who didn’t. People who got way into golf or Harpoon or hearts or text adventures — those were the “hardcore” players, in that they played their chosen field obsessively.

When Myst and the CD-ROM finally broached the mass market, this ecosystem was disrupted. Myst had, Robyn Miller makes clear, been designed to appeal to non-gamers. It sold to them. Enthusiast magazines like Computer Gaming World couldn’t set the taste for the industry anymore: there were millions buying games who didn’t read these magazines. An entirely new breed of player. In this situation, what could be more natural than concocting an us-and-them formula? In a very real way, it was already true.

The great narrative of Myst is that the “hardcore” game press and playerbase lambasted it when it launched. Disowned it. A slideshow, they called it. Abstruse, idiotic puzzles; pretty graphics and not much depth. “Critics and hardcore game players universally panned it as a slide-show that had little actual gameplay interaction”, claimed PC Gamer’s Michael Wolf in 2001.That same year, a columnist for Maximum PC recalled Myst as a “tedious code-breaking and switch-throwing mess”, and saw its then-new remake realMYST as “a pointed reminder of why the press dumped on the original so heavily when it came out.”
Wasannin Na'ura mai Kwakwalwa, a hannu gudu wasannine na nishadi. Amma bamu da masaniyar Wasan yau da kullum na shekarar 1993. Bari mu tuna da labarin mutumin da aka fara harba (a wani wasa da ba'a bayyana sunansa ba) Wanda za'a iya la'akari dashi a matsayin "Gwarzon Jigo". Akwai mutanen da suke yin wasannin na'ura mai kwakwalwa, akwai kuma wadanda basa yi. Mutanen da suke yin wasan kwallon gora ko jifan sanda ko zuciyoyi ko kuma rubutun yake-yake - wadannan sune "Gwarzon Jigon" yan wasa, wadanda suke zabin wasan da suke yi a Koda yaushe.

A lokacin Majigi da kuma gidan fefan CD sun samu karbuwa a kasuwa matuka, wannan sauyin yanayi ya kawo canji matuka. Majigin Robyn Miller yayi ya banbanta da sauran wasanni. Ya saida su gaba daya. Sashin kundin bayanai kamar wasannin na'ura mai kwakwalwane Wanda duniya ta gaza kwajin kowanne ma'akatun da suke sarrafawa: Akwai miliyoyin mutune da suke siyan fakitin wasanni ba tare da sun karanta bayanan da ya kunsa ba. Gaba daya sababbin masuyin wasannin, a wannan yanayin, menene zaifi dacewa da yanayin yanzu wajan tafiyar da harkokin mu na yau da kullum? A hanyar gaskiya, wannan shine daidai da abinda zamuyi.

Babban nartaccen majigin da ya kamata shine "Gwarzon Jigo" masanan wasanni da masu yin wasannin a lokacin da ala gabatar. Masu satar fasaha na bibiyar lamarin. Kacici-kacici, wasa kwakwalwa, auna fasahar hotuna da makamantansu. " Wasan auna hikimar gwarzon jigo da masu wasannin Wanda jami'a ta aiwatar a matsayin wasan auna fahimta mai taken nagartaccen Dan wasan asali na hakika", kamar masu fikirar wasannin na'ura mai kwakwalwa Michael Wolf a shekarar 2001. Adai wannan shekarar, masu babiyar al'amuran zamani mafiya yawa sun Kira wasan na'ura mai kwakwalwa a matsayin majigin da yake "kunshe da lambobin fasaha na budewa da rufewa", suka gani tare da sabunta ainihin MYST a matsayin tsinken manunin tunawa da asalin dalilin sarafa wasan na'ura mai kwakwalwa."


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