They was givin' me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot. Next woman takes me on gonna light up like a pinball m...achine and pay off in silver dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ba...ll. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »