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Item #3 (Advanced Level)

Computer Games of the Past

These aren’t the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa, but they are
masterpieces. The first computer and TV games, the ones that taught us
that it’s possible to make a two-way link between us and home appliances,
are today history in every aspect, and like any chapter in history – this
chapter too has its own historians. In his apartment in the city of Rehovot,
Refa’el Ben Ari preserves the western childhood of the eighties and
nineties. “Here is a pile of Gameboy games, Super Nintendo games, I have
game literature here, on say, how to run DOS, and this is the original
Nintendo, from [the year] eighty five.” For the millennials, a short
introduction: this is a joystick, this guy is the Persian Prince, and this – the
Messi of TV games, is Super Mario. Those were the days of the first
games in the world, certainly in Israel, and each game had a story of its
own. “This is the first game where (they) translated the whole game to
Hebrew. It even says here in Hebrew on the screen ‘for the first time’,
because this was trail-blazing.” The children of Dangerous Dave are
today’s parents of Wii players, and for one evening on Scientists’ Night,
(you) could see them stare at the screen with the controller in hand. Nir
Miretzky has been playing his whole life, he’s turned the hobby into a
profession, as a parent too he has an attentive ear when he hears, “Just one
more game, Dad.”

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