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Speyside High School
Mary Avenue
Aberlour, Moray
AB38 9PN

Arcade Games

		Space Invaders A simple game with simple graphics, but it has one of the most vital assets for any computer game: gameplay. Modern games seem to forget this with their fancy "3D graphics" and "millions of dollars". All you need is a pointy green thing which shoots white stuff at a rampaging invasion of wobbling blobs. They don't make 'em like they used to! PLAY NOW

		Frogger Way back in 1981 kids had absolutely nothing to do. So to spice things up a little bit youths the world over thought they might try running across busy roads! Thankfully, a thoughtful Japanese company called Konami decided they'd had enough of all these daredevil japes and made a computer game based on this very theme just so kids would stop getting flattened by articulated lorries. And henceforth, Frogger was born. It's essentially the same idea, but with a frog and no-one gets hurt! PLAY NOW

		Asteroids Back to a world before pixels. In those days all people had were lines. A company called Atari had recently wowed crowds with their clever use of lines in a game called Pong, but now this line technology had advanced. It was 1979 and lines could be made to look like spaceships and big rocks and flying saucers! Asteroids was born. It's an elegantly simple game, but beautifully gratifying. You float in space and shoot the asteroids, but the more you shoot, the more asteroids you create. PLAY NOW