"bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > others are mentioned. Hartnell talks about the > pre-computer gamers who recreated historical battles, > who later went on and developed Dungeon & Dragons > type games and RPGs (another genre of gaming that > I know nothing about). Later, those games were > computerized. I'm not sure how many people still > play these games?
Huge numbers and they take it very seriously. A colleague (a Physics PHd and ex NASA scientist!) takes holidays each year to spend a week at a gaming convention in Florida (and he is UK based!) where several hundred folks turn up to do nothing but play games for a week. A lot (most?) of those games are RPGs. And they are not all computerised, in fact many of the most complex ones are traditional board games. There are all sorts of online forums etc supporting these gamers "out of season" too. As someone who occasionally plays Freecell or Spider on my PC I can't see the fascinatioon, but lots of folks do! Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
