Ik heb op een Amerikaanse website een plaatje gevonden van een pagina uit een boek over gamen. Dit boek is tientallen jaren oud en hierin werd ondere andere het onderwerp 'future gaming' behandeld. Zij voorspelden dus hoe games er eigenlijk nu, in de tijd uit zouden zien waarin we nu leven.

Wat opvalt is dat ze er vaak dichtbij zaten en dus best goed konden voorspellen wat de mogelijkheden in deze tijd zouden zijn.

Hieronder staat het artikel met daarbij de illustraties die ook bij het artikel stonden.

Future Games
Within ten years the computer games of today will probably seem very basic and primitive. The games of the future will be faster and more exciting, with superbly realistic screen displays.
These games will contain computers a hundred times more powerful and faster than those of today and capable of storing millions of pieces information. Computers like these will be built by packing more and more complicated circuits into a chip of silicon.
Here are some of the features we might see in computer games in the not too distant future.

A TV game with a very large memory will be able to reconstruct detailed pictures of say, the Battle of Waterloo or a space battle, and the players will be able to control far more of the details in the picture than they can today.

At present, most computer games are for one only or two players. More powerful computers though, will be able to cope with instructions from a number of people playing at the same time, either as teams against each other, or against the computer.

Hand-held electronic games will still have liquid crystal displays, but they will probably be in full color and will be as detailed and realistic as the pictures for a TV program today.

By the year 2000 you will be able to challenge someone hundreds of miles away to a game. The games will contain miniature transmitters and receivers which will transmit your moves and receive those of your opponent with very little time delay. Your opponent’s moves will be automatically carried out in the liquid crystal display.