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Here ya go:
The site is talking about an expo "TV Game and Digital science" that was
held at National Science museum in Tokyo.
Zone 1: Displays of computing history, from calculator to PC. The main
feature of the exhibit is Vacuum tube PC (never heard of it) that was
created by Univ. of Michigan. The picture only shows one of the units that
were made of 28 tubes, but the entire system was made of 170 thousand tubes.
The other exhibits are Alto invented by Alan Kay (sp?) that was never
productized, Apple I with autographed by Steve Wosniac (sp? - who started
Apple computer ), NEC's "my com(puter) kit: TK-80.
Zone 2: The exhibit starts from one of the first TV game "Tennis for two"
created by Willie Higginbosom (sp?) in 1958, the exhibit also includes
"Spacewar" created by MIT's Stephen Russell
Zone 3-4: History of Japanese TV games, software and hardware. Epoc, TV
Tennis, Atari 2600, Nintendo Game & Watch, etc.
Zone: 6: Displays the effect of TV games to society. Discussions on the
relationship between TV games and aggressiveness, Rating of the games in
diff. countries - Japan, US, European countries
Zone7: Entertainment Lab - the participants get to play the games. The main
exhibit was Cinematrix Interactive Entertainment System created by the
Cinematrix president Rachel Carpenter.
Zone8: Partners' fields - More games that are provided by the sponsors are
available to play. Digimon Battle Chronicles by Bandai, Toontown online by
NTT, Eye Toy play by Sony, etc.
Lastly, it's talking about "Yubikitas (I don't know what that means, it's
not Japanese, and I can't think of any English they are trying to say???)
Gaming project". The spectators who wish to participate in the game receive
"Wall stone" (see the picture at the bottom right, it looks like computer
mouse) that consists of ear phone, monitor, and antenna. A character of
Digimon is actually inside the monitor, and the game is the exhibit is a
person who lost its memory, and the participants help regain the memory and
grow Digimon by answering questions from Digimon. There are 400 infrared ray
transmitters in the attic, and the wall stone receives the info from there.
The communication between the PC that shoots the question and wall stone is
handled by Bluetooth
nomad (translated by a good friend of mine named Yasko)
"ComputerSpaceFan" <computerspacefan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:29b8983f.0502050855.7d656e6c@posting.google.com...
> Can anyone who knows Japanese help translate this webpage for me? It
> has some great history of video games stuff but since I can't speak
> Japanese all I can do is look at the pretty pictures. I want to use
> some of the information and pictures in the next big update for my
> Computer Space devoted website but without knowing what this site is
> talking about, I don't know how to credit them properly.
>
>
http://www.4gamer.net/news/history/2004.07/20040717153840detail.html
>
> Thanks in advance.
> computerspacefan@hotmail.com
>
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