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LincLinc Site ownerDetroit Moderator
edited April 2012 in General Banter

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  • Invincible_summerInvincible_summer Heavy Metal Dhamma We(s)t coast, Canada Veteran
    I wonder if it has anything to do with the direction in which the society reads (e.g. left-right vs right-left vs up-down vs down-up or whatever else)?

    And since the West is a huge market for video games and consumption in general, side-scrolling, platforming games were designed to scroll left-right?


    OR it's a massive conspiracy by the fascist elements globally
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    I have no idea what the heck all this is about....
    I must be more of a doofus than I thought..... :crazy:
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    edited April 2012
    Ah, sorry, lacking context I can see how this could be confusing.

    There is a long-standing convention in video games that "right" is forward in a 2D side-scroller. So this is a chronicle of characters over the years running in that direction. Then there's a montage of them running into trouble and trying to go back, but they can't, so they fight their way forward again. It actually feels fairly dramatic to watch if you've played some of those games.
  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Yeah I took this as a metaphor for facing challenges in life and to be able to keep going forward (right). Kind of inspirational.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    You could also go left in Pitfall Harry. Just saying ;)
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited April 2012
    Ah, sorry, lacking context I can see how this could be confusing.

    There is a long-standing convention in video games that "right" is forward in a 2D side-scroller. So this is a chronicle of characters over the years running in that direction. Then there's a montage of them running into trouble and trying to go back, but they can't, so they fight their way forward again. It actually feels fairly dramatic to watch if you've played some of those games.
    Ah.

    OK.....

    Gotcha.







    Yeah.







    Doofus.


    (I dunno why, but the phrase that just came to mind was "Ya had ta be there...."

    I was never 'there'... :D )

  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Not doofus Fede - I didn't get it either. The last video game I played in my own home was the original Pong. I think that was 1976. :)
  • Invincible_summerInvincible_summer Heavy Metal Dhamma We(s)t coast, Canada Veteran
    Not doofus Fede - I didn't get it either. The last video game I played in my own home was the original Pong. I think that was 1976. :)
    ... dang../ :p

  • TalismanTalisman Veteran
    so...freaking...awesome lol
  • shays860shays860
    It might be a little sad how many good memories that brought back.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    In metroid you had to go left to fight Kraid.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited April 2012
    Of course you did.
    I forgot that.

    :rolleyes: :crazy:
  • DavidDavid A human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First Nations Veteran
    edited April 2012
    I wasn't quite sure I got the message either but I felt that it was too good a montage of charactors being played to not mean something, lol.

    We are born to go and there is no turning back. In real life to turn back is still plugging ahead.

    Well done!
  • ethereaetherea Veteran
    I have no idea what the heck all this is about....
    I must be more of a doofus than I thought..... :crazy:
    No,me neither, that's why I didn't comment when I watched it. Took the cowards way out and waited until comments were made ;)
  • possibilitiespossibilities PNW, WA State Veteran
    ...... waited for something significant to happen..........................
    ..................
    ...................
    .......................................... 0 (not a gamer)
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    I have no idea what the heck all this is about....
    I must be more of a doofus than I thought..... :crazy:
    No,me neither, that's why I didn't comment when I watched it. Took the cowards way out and waited until comments were made ;)
    It must be a 'boy' thing.......:D

  • tmottestmottes Veteran
    You guys ever played the game Braid? It tends to break free from that right is forward structure by dealing with time in addition to space. Wikipedia - Braid
  • RichardHRichardH Veteran
    edited April 2012
    ...just an aside .... out of the blue.... The western convention of scanning from left to right when reading or looking at a picture effects how we see images.

    In Japan (I am told) the convention was right to left... Hokusai's famous image of the wave, for example, would have been entered by viewers ....from the right ... not the left The effect was far more ominous because the eye collided with the wave. Here the image is reversed... so that we can see the wave looming as intended by the artist.
  • zombiegirlzombiegirl beating the drum of the lifeless in a dry wasteland Veteran
    Awesome comment @RichardH I never thought about that!
    Since Nintendo was originally a Japanese console, it makes me wonder why early games like Mario began left to right. It feels so wrong to think of the opposite though...

    It must be a 'boy' thing.......:D
    Ahem. Speak for yourself!

    (Oh, you were. :p )
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    :D
  • zombiegirlzombiegirl beating the drum of the lifeless in a dry wasteland Veteran
    *I made a slight error in my above post that I'm too nerdy to allow to slip by... what I MEANT to say was that the NES was preceded by the launch of the Famicom in Japan. Since the NES is basically the non-Japanese counterpart of the Famicom, it is clear that the Japanese version came first and therefore... I don't understand why it wouldn't scroll right to left, since that is the direction the Japanese write (aside from up and down).
  • shays860shays860
    *I made a slight error in my above post that I'm too nerdy to allow to slip by... what I MEANT to say was that the NES was preceded by the launch of the Famicom in Japan. Since the NES is basically the non-Japanese counterpart of the Famicom, it is clear that the Japanese version came first and therefore... I don't understand why it wouldn't scroll right to left, since that is the direction the Japanese write (aside from up and down).
    I really have no idea but my best guess is that they knew it would be commercially successful in the U.S. so they wanted to make it more palatable to us... doesn't quite add up but its my best guess
  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    Famicon built on a long tradition of arcade games that had already established the left-to-right precedent.
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