A thankyou
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:28 pm
Hey
When I was 8, I recieved a Sega master system 1.
I didn't ask for it, I had never heard of it, but I loved animation and the Sega let me have control over animated things.
I had Hang On, I remember counting the 3 frames of the motorbike as I leaned into a turn, and wondering why Sega used only 3.
I thought about how much better I could animate it if I was given the job.
At school, every boy wanted to talk about computer and video games,
but all they ever spoke about was how to get further in the game.
They took the magic for granted.
I wanted to talk about what games were, and how they were made, and I privately made a plan for my own game which I was going to send to Sega. In my daydreams, Sega would declare me a child prodigy and the world would finally understand.
Issue 11 of Sega Force magazine was the first magazine I ever owned.
My parents bought it for me on a school holiday when I was about 9.
It was the most exciting reading experience of my life.
When I opened the magazine, it was like having a group of young adults talk passionately to me about something I had been alone with.
Through them, I soon learned why only so many frames of animation were possible on my Master System and how things were getting better.
It made me think of the possibilities.
I probably had more fun reading Sega, than I did playing Sega.
To Mort and to others who scan,
thankyou
When I was 8, I recieved a Sega master system 1.
I didn't ask for it, I had never heard of it, but I loved animation and the Sega let me have control over animated things.
I had Hang On, I remember counting the 3 frames of the motorbike as I leaned into a turn, and wondering why Sega used only 3.
I thought about how much better I could animate it if I was given the job.
At school, every boy wanted to talk about computer and video games,
but all they ever spoke about was how to get further in the game.
They took the magic for granted.
I wanted to talk about what games were, and how they were made, and I privately made a plan for my own game which I was going to send to Sega. In my daydreams, Sega would declare me a child prodigy and the world would finally understand.
Issue 11 of Sega Force magazine was the first magazine I ever owned.
My parents bought it for me on a school holiday when I was about 9.
It was the most exciting reading experience of my life.
When I opened the magazine, it was like having a group of young adults talk passionately to me about something I had been alone with.
Through them, I soon learned why only so many frames of animation were possible on my Master System and how things were getting better.
It made me think of the possibilities.
I probably had more fun reading Sega, than I did playing Sega.
To Mort and to others who scan,
thankyou
