So for the past week in class we’ve been working on the history of games and the history of rating systems like ESRB and PEGI. Rating systems were first brought into the realm video games when games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap. Both were considered explicit while Mortal Kombat featured things like excessive blood and gore while Night Trap had scenes that were considered to be sexually explicit. People like Senator Joe Lieberman believed that these games needed to be rated to keep these out of the hands of younger children, so they brought SEGA and Nintendo to court. Both had very specific views on the concept, SEGA’s Mortal Kombat was not dumbed down, there was all the blood and gore that the developers intended. While Nintendo had to dumb down the game and did things like turn the blood into sweat. This led to the creation of the ESRB which was a department outside of these companies and outside of the government to determine what age range the games should be for. Now today we have international rating systems like PEGI who rate games for the European audiences.
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For our first unit of the year Mr.B asked us to explore the history of games and some pre-modern games like The Royal Game of Ur which is the first noted board game from the Fertile Crescent in the Mesopotamian era. We also had to pick a modern game and trace it back to what we thought it came from, I did the origins of Tetris and how I think that puzzle games started out with games like dominoes where you had to connect similar pieces. With all that being said for the first official blog post of the year Mr.B has asked us to put ourselves in the shoes of a soldier in the Roman Empire and explain what pre-modern games we would be playing in our off time as well as what current game they would most likely be playing. According to lots of different websites, all say that soldier did play board game sin their free time whether it was Tesserae (a dice game) or games like Latrunculi which is the Roman version of chess. If I were a Roman Soldier and I had the choice to play a modern game, I wouldn't want to play an action or fighting game because Romans did plenty of that in real life, I would rather play something to get my mind off of my job like a game called Tiny Towers for PS4 which you build towers like Tetris but you can play against your friends with special power-ups and sabotaging other players. Or another game that I would play if I had the choice would be Minecraft, because you can just escape your reality and build anything you want in the game. This has been a little something on the history of games in the Roman empire and what game I would play if I had the choice of modern games in the Roman empire.
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