英语学习-视频游戏节

英语学习-视频游戏节


So back up here in Nottingham, back at 'game city', I'm with the guy whose fault it all is. This is Ian Simons. You're organising all this. We're standing outside a record shop where you have gone and stuck in an arcade game of Tekkon and we would record the interview in there but it is too noisy so we are out here. This seems to be the point then, Ian. You are just putting games out around the city.

Yeah, well, we hope we are doing a bit more than that. The idea is to try and have a video games festival in the same way that we might have an arts festival or a film festival. So people can stumble across games, serendipitously discover things they wouldn't ordinarily otherwise see. And part of that is absolutely putting games in places that you wouldn't expect them, such as a record shop, such as a shopping precinct, such as a library to allow people to stumble across them.



And in fact there is a department store just up from here and there's a load of people, young and old, all having a go on an X-Box 360. So it's all part of the idea then, is it?



Yeah, absolutely, I mean my big frustration in the past with video games events has been that there is very seldom someone explaining what the game is, right? Now if you are into games, it's great, you know you kind of read about them in the specialist press and that all kind of cool. But if you weren't already into games, I'm not sure where you could go to discover them. What we are trying to do is create entry points into video games, kind of for everybody else.



So as we have been hearing in London, there's forty years of video games history, if not more possibly. So why a great big festival like this, up here now?



Because that kind of nostalgia and heritage now exists for the first time. For the first time we have got people who can recollect that and fondly recall stories of Pac Man and Manic Minor around the camp fire and remember when the games industry was all fields and all that sort of thing. And you know, we have got a rich culture that is emerging and it's time to celebrate that. It's one of the biggest creative industries and all the kind of economic benefits but there is a real culture value that doesn't tend to get talked about in the same breath as film and music. That's what we are trying to do.



I'm glad you mention the culture value side of things because it is kind of up there with film and music, you know in many ways it kind of defines our times. And people define themselves possibly through the games they play.



People have an immense personal connection to the games that they play and that's one of sort of reasons you love doing festivals like this, it's just the emotional bond people have with video games. It's absolutely the same sort of level as we have with music and other bits of popular culture which is great.



让我们回到诺丁汉,回到这个“游戏之城”,现在我身边的这个人就是一手造成所

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