Interactive Games

Football Interactive game on Sky

Interactive TV games provided people to play games through their satellite or cable provider on the TV directly using the remote control. This meant that they could access a range of games on what was called Playjam through the television service. Once the games had been loaded up they could choose what to play. I had experience the game “darts” and “quiz show” these were games which could be played using the television remote and pressing the correct buttons and arrow keys to move separate parts of the game. 

Playing the darts game you would use the arrow keys to move the cursor and then you would press the select button to throw the dart, this would then land on the darts board in the background. You could play this game in both single player and Multiplayer and allowed for sound to be used as well. Although the games were new and very basic for a television service they still provided some very good features listed below:

Features:

• Sound Output
• Single Player
• Multiplayer
• Controller Interaction
• Multi-function, multi games

These features were standard for most games on the interactive TV series of games. However due to the simplicity and use on the TV they have a lot of Limitations compared to other platforms that play games, such as computers, consoles and mobile devices. These limitations include:


Limitations:

• Can only use remote control to operate
• Games were slow and could crash
• Poor signal slowed the game down
• Very costly for the service
• Some cases you couldn't use your telephone as well as the games

Evaluation:

Interactive Games have been around for a long time and provide people with very simplistic and minimal gaming experiences with the basics of games. These games are for small entertainment purposes and a widely discouraged and unused in some circumstances as they can cost a lot, provide barely a game to play and are boring in correlation to other more advanced games on consoles and PC systems.