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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:21:46 GMT
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"Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@altavista.net> wrote in message news:GnwH2y.HHF@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > > In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > > Does the market realy want junorization?
> >
> > Even if I do not like the answer, I think it is:
> > "Yes, market demands junorized sets"
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> Which market exactly would that be?
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> Let's take a look at things *for kids* the way they are now, compared to the
> way they were when I was growing up as a pre-teen in the late 70's.
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> Movies today are MORE sophisticated.
Which movies? It seems to me that today movies have more special effects but
that is not sophistication.
> Books today are MORE sophisticated.
> Video games today are MORE sophisticated.
Let's take a look at the adventure games:
In the ones from the 80's you had to type commands,
and guess words.
In most of the present quest games, you have to only click with the mouse,
and you cannot die, or go wrong and have to restart the game.
And I wouldn't call Quake or Doom a sophisticated video game...
> Computers today are MORE sophisticated.
Hmm, in the 80's, PC's had only DOS.
Using it wasn't easy.
Now they have MS Windows, and while programming for it may be more
sophisticated, the user interface is not.
And with each new version, the interface is supposed to be even more easy to use - take a look at WinXP.
In the past, in order to play a computer game, I had to know exactly
the settings of my hardware, like the model of the soundcard, the IRQs, etc.
Some games required fine-tunning of the available memory, so I learned much about UMB, EMS and XMS.
Today you just put the game CD in the CD-ROM device, and it is auto-installed, and auto-detects what it needs.
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> LEGO today is LESS sophisticated.
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> Why?
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> Is LEGO *that* much harder for kids to grasp than the operation of a
> computer? When I was 10 years old, home computers had 5k of usable memory
> and programs were loaded off a cassette tape. My LEGO sets had multi-page
> instructions and almost NO juniorized pieces.
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> Today home computers routinely ship with 256 MEG of memory and programs are
> downloaded off the Internet. And yet LEGO sets today are rarely more than
> just a handful of specialized pieces and kids sometimes don't even need to
> use the instructions to assemble them.
And which is easier? Loading a program from a cassette tape, or from Internet?
I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and working with it wasn't easier than my today's PC.
> Far from the market demanding juniorized sets, the children's entertainment
> market is often the leader in high tech and forward thinking. Too bad the
> LEGO company is missing the boat.
I agree, the children's toys should promote creativity, and not be 'dumbed down'.
IMO it is better for the child to spend some time trying to build the toy,
not to make it quickly from the instructions, and then forget about it.
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Castaway Pirate
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