The time to play a live-action version of an Atari classic is almost upon us. Players of CounterSquirt, prepare to assemble. The 2010 Come Out and Play Festival starts Friday in Brooklyn, New York.
This annual event is all about games you can play outside among the public, games that might be just a bit like games you have played before in the safety of your own home.
I covered the first Come Out and Play event in 2006, during which festival I put a giant acid-green Pong paddle on my head in order to play Sonic Body Pong (my previous employer filmed this, but their 2006 video codecs are messed up right now and I canāt show it to you). Hereās how I described it four years ago:
The game played like old-school āPong,ā except the paddles were real and attached to the playersā heads. And the playing field was real space, not a screen. And the ball was only represented by sounds coming into each playerās headphones, urging them to move a little to the left or right to bounce it back to their opponent. You couldnāt see the ball. Other than that, it was just like āPong.ā
Technically, that was an indoors game. The version of Space Invaders projected on the side of a 20-story building that I played was not.
The 2010 version of this festival has a host of new, incredible-sounding games.
This one caught my eye..
And this oneā¦
This oneā¦
And best/oddest of all!
Check out the full Come Out and Play 2010 schedule for yourself. Opening ceremonies are Friday night.
