Computer Games: Mac: Here's a YouTube video for the Mac Games Arcade

My first video game -- on the computer, of course -- not a joystick, to be sure -- its called Crystal Cave Lost Treasure and it has 15 levels. I opted out at the third level, it got the sl+test bit difficult. I'm two months and a week before my 70th birthday, shoud I live that long at the Lord's good pleasure, whatever, and I decided I wanted to extend my pleasures and knowledge (tech knowledge, but also something I'd rather call game knowledge in the vidgame sense). Life is so full of games, not least of all between people. Politics. Schoolyards. Workplaces. Gangs. Professions and guilds. Pecking orders.

Well, here's what Mac Games Arcade says about its release that I lucked out to be my first real (simple) game.

Crystal Cave Classic is a quest for long-lost treasures buried in pitch black caves, pyramids and temples of ancient civilizations. Huge gemstones were shetered from the sunshine for eaons of time waiting for explorers brave enuff to unearth them. You -- as an intrepid treasure hunter -- will need all your ingenuity to pass the traps and dangers of the underground and collect the treasure in more than 170 levels.

Not what I bargained for, sounds far more complex than it seemed at chapter 3, from which I retired perhaps too quickly. Does that mean "170 levels" in 15 chapters? Or is this one that I bailed out from, just a dumbing down from the real thing? I thawt I was just going over the hill, but am I launched on a climb of Mount Kilmanjaro? I need a tutorial!



I just did a free download from VersionTracker, and opened the Mac Games Arcade app which offered a YouTube tutorial for using this new app. It carries instruction on how to get free game samples (mostly demos I guess) and a list of games available from Mac Game Store.

What woud Wittgenstein say if he coud see me now? What woud McLuhan say? What woud Henk Hart say? And you, dear reader of refWrite, what do you think of this woud-be philosophizing journalist-blogger trekking over the hill or up the mountain to the fantasy land of games, the ultimate Arcade ... ?