Game chronicle: 1944
“Game chronicle” are events, people, and, of course, games that have become part of our life and history. Year 1944: “Soldier Joe”, entertainment for adults and other spectacles.
G.I. Joe
This year, Victory Games, which, like others, puts the transformation of old arcade machines into new games, among others, offers the owners of suitable cars to acquire the actual Pinbole “Soldier Joe”. A light movement of the hand, boring “jungle” turn into the adventures of infantry, pilots and sailors, while wartime still allows the boys to help the brave soldiers.
In general, the term G.I. (Government Issue) in American military jargon means “released by the government” – this phrase is a generalization of all soldiers and various objects of their equipment.
In the future, the manufacturer of toys Hasbro uses the name G.I. JOE to promote your brand toy soldiers, after which their own definition of the “action fiction” will already become a household name, and “Joe” himself will receive many incarnations: both on the screen and in the format of video games.
Sexual vector
“Whenever one person invents https://stonevegas.uk technology, another person invents sexual use for it” – this statement is easy to confirm by studying the history of the entertainment industry.
So, in the 1940s in the USA, Panoram devices are very popular, which over ten cents allow you to enjoy short videos on a large screen, to match today’s music clips. They are usually placed in restaurants, cafes and other institutions. When one of the bars is opened, its owner even launches a “film for adults” on the player, which creates loud advertising for his business.
A couple of years after that, the distributor of the rollers for Panoram begins to sell a special set for turning cars into Solo-Vue-a mechanism with the same principle, but now there is only one user, and content is reproduced completely erotic.
Wm company will seize on this topic. Nathanson, releasing its Hollywood Peep Shows in January 1944 in January 1944. The novelty offers to study female charms in a number of films from the “largest film companies of Hollywood”. Although such devices have been installed in many places of clusters of the male audience since the end of the 19th century, given “Pip shows”, perhaps for the first time tries to go around moral and ethical prohibitions, attaching a sign “only for students of artists” to the building. And confidence in the success of entertainment allows the company to release two models at once: ordinary, with a couple of rollers, and Deluxe – with doubled films. Well, of course, additional films in the assortment to increase revenue.
Another example of using female pretty plesy to attract attention to the game will be the PinTory Games updated by the same company Pinbole five years ago, which this time will receive the motive of the annual beauty contest “Miss America”. And although the advertising of the re-equipment of the cabinet, as usual, promises “queues of those who wish to play”, in decades of the years there will be only a few models of “Miss-Pinballs”, which is the most eloquent indicator of demand.
The more popular area of games of this topic can be called harmless variations of “predictors of fate” – Sex Appeal Meter, Love Tester and many similar. Of course, no witchcraft in the operation of the units has been laid down – after activation, the “sexual meter” randomly issues either a pleasant compliment or a harmless joke.
It’s funny that there is an important remark on some machine guns – the device does not hit the current of its players. Obviously, numerous complaints force the creators a little more to devote the time of entertainment safety with not the most difficult electromechanical structure.
To see is to believe
Similarly, “Hollywood peeping”, an inexperienced manufacturer of Arcadian machines OHIO SPECIALTY tries to apply the idea of a mutoscope to the sensational fun of the pre -war time – the freak show. Everyone who wants to stare at the Siamese twins or a three-legged man no longer needs to wait for the arrival of a vagabond circus-just throw one center in a special See-A-Freak automaton, and without remorse to study photos of people with an unusual appearance.
But unlike a live performance, where the numbers of artists change over time and you can even spread with malicious comments with its participants, the “Weduer” device cannot provide such experience. Therefore, this device, like a lot of similar ones, is entertainment only at once, and, accordingly, does not use incredible demand.
This is what was 1944 in a game story. Then there will be a new year and new games, but for now – for now.
