The history of Games, what is Art and the worst game ever created?

During the week of February 17 we discussed the history of video games, what games are art and played some classic games. We discussed video games from 1950 to the present day, the time periods were broken up by ten years each. We had the classics like The Legend of Zelda, and broken games, including Sonic '06 and ET. Everyone in the class had to think of a game that is considered art. It has to have good graphics, music, sound effects, story, gameplay and it must have been memorable. I said Dark Souls, it might not be the best game ever made, or the most evolutionary game but it is a fun masochistic game and it is one of my favorites. Sure the music is wonderful even though I play with the music off. The story is different because you have to search for it. The reason I love the game so much is because the infinite re-playability you can beat the game only using daggers, a shield, a bow, claws, great swords or magic. I beat this game like ten times but I am still playing it because it is fun and addicting.

On Thursday we were playing and watching people play classic games on the Odyssey, Atari, NES and SNES. The first game ever created Space War was the most reliable to play. The next reliable game to run was ET although the game itself is not reliable to play. Most of the games were not reliable to run or play on the emulator. I tried three separate games but none of them would let me actually play. So I gave up and made someone play ET. He beat Dark Souls multiple times but raged quit ET.

The homework for this week was horrible, I had to play games and blog about it. I decided I wanted to try ET myself. The game isn't that bad except in my first and only playthrough the pedophile in the overcoat glitched and he was just having a seizure. When I fell into the hole for like the 7^th time, every time I tried to travel up I would fall back into the hole no matter where I was when I started to elevate. The third thing that makes this game suck besides the graphics is the fact that I have no idea what I am supposed to do. I think I am supposed to collect black pixels and escape the pedophile. But I also picked up a spring looking thing and then all my pixel counter disappeared. So I gave up with that game and tried something else I tried Final Fantasy VI. It was my first experience at Final Fantasy, even though I love role-playing games. The music was nice and I liked the graphics, they are dated but still good to look at. There was one down side that I didn't like, the game was in Japanese so I had no idea what was going on and once I died to a giant snail I stopped playing.