A 2.7 meter tall video game joystick, made of wood, rubber and steel, became the tallest of the Guinness World Records of 2022. Mary Flanagan, a professor at Dartmouth College, created the giant controller, almost 14 times . the size of an original classic Atari controller, in 2006 to celebrate his childhood experience playing Atari 2600 video games “maniacally.” I also wanted to see what that would look like when the single-player experience becomes collaborative – it takes at least two people to operate the joystick and press the button to play classic Atari games like “Centipede” and “Breakout.” “Breaking this common pop culture artifact in the middle of a space and allowing people to play something familiar, but unfamiliar, was exciting,” said Flanagan, an artist who is president of Dartmouth Film and Media Studies and Professor Emeritus of Dartmouth. Sherman Fairchild Digital Humanities. .
The joystick, which has toured Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, is now part of the permanent collection of the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
In an unrelated incident, we hear that pigs are good at playing video games. What’s the smartest thing pigs can do? They can apparently play video games! A very strange experiment, no doubt, but scientists have taught four pigs: Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory how to maneuver an arcade-style joystick that will allow them to play video games.
Scientists at the Purdue University experiment in Indiana, United States, marveled that animals could understand the connection between the joystick and video games. Calling it a “sensible feat,” the researchers gave the animals food pellets as a reward for each level they leveled up. In addition, another interesting thing scientists are observing is that even when the food rewards ended, the pigs continued to play, which the former believed was due to the need for social contact, encouraged by some kind words from the researchers.
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