英語(yǔ)趣味課堂：計(jì)算機(jī)游戲 computer game
Eli: Mm-hm, I do very much. It's my other hobby. Um, almost an obsession sometimes. I think my friends get quite worried about me sometimes, the amount I play, but yeah I've always since I've been little liked computer games. I think my dad on his old macintosh forced us into it originally, so I blame it all on him, but that sort of developed into obviously in my field that I do which is animation. It's very close connected to it, and I'd like to maybe work making computer games one day, uh.
Todd: What's a really good game? What do you think is the best game?
Eli: My favorite games are I think a split between two, the Final Fantasy series, which is a spread of lots of different games which are RPG which are role playing games, where you are, you're a character, or party of characters and you run around talking to people, discovering things, fighting battles, lots and lots of puzzles, lots of secrets. That's what I like.
Todd: Is the setting now or the future or the past?
Eli: The setting's always in some fantasy world, but you don't know about. That's kind of, that's one of the nice things about computer games, it's almost escapism. You can escape the reality of the real world and go and run around in some fantastical world I mean, now that the graphics and computer games are getting so advanced it really does feel like your going into a new world of your own actually,and that you're there running around, so yeah, that's great and I think my other favorite game would have to be the SIMS series, which is,
started with SIM city, which is a little city building game, where you're the mayor of the city.
Todd: You're the mayor!
Eli: You're the mayor of the city and you have to build up your city over hundreds of years and advance it, and then from that they made the SIMs which actually goes into the houses and you control the lives of the little SIM people in the houses. It's almost like playing dolls houses, but very, very advanced and they have their own wants and needs and they fall in love and they go to work and it's basically just determining the destinies of your little character and furnishing their houses at the same time, which is always fun.
Todd: Wow, what a game! So actually, shows how old I am, you said, "computer games!" So you don't say video games anymore?
Eli: Well, the SIMS and SIM City, I mean the first SIM City series I played on, probably the Mac had only just got a hard drive, um, really old when I was about, sort of seven or eight, even younger than that, so yeah, those PC games, mac games, and also video games, video games are Play Station, the ones that you play on the TV.
Todd: Which to you prefer a play station or an actual arcade game to play on?
Eli: Uh, I never actually got into arcade games, cause you got to put money in to play them so, and I don't
think my, our parents ever wanted us to sort of waste money like that so.
Todd: What kind of player do you have: a play station?
Eli: I have a play station, and a Dreamcast, and an X box, and a Game Cube, and an N64 and a Gameboy
Todd: Wow, I don't even know what those are.
Eli: And a PC!
1 obsession
n.困擾，無(wú)法擺脫的思想(或情感)
參考例句：
I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那時(shí)的我陷入了我的事業(yè)有可能就此終止的困擾當(dāng)中。
She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她會(huì)努力忘記對(duì)克里斯托弗的迷戀。
2 animation
n.活潑，興奮，卡通片/動(dòng)畫(huà)片的制作
參考例句：
They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.當(dāng)他們談及童年的往事時(shí)都非常興奮。
The animation of China made a great progress.中國(guó)的卡通片制作取得很大發(fā)展。
3 graphics
n.制圖法，制圖學(xué);圖形顯示
參考例句：
You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你們把圖形設(shè)計(jì)業(yè)務(wù)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)運(yùn)用到錄像業(yè)務(wù)中去。
Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.經(jīng)改進(jìn)的制圖技術(shù)將電腦游戲帶進(jìn)了一個(gè)新時(shí)代。
4 arcade
n.拱廊;(一側(cè)或兩側(cè)有商店的)通道
參考例句：
At this time of the morning,the arcade was almost empty.在早晨的這個(gè)時(shí)候，拱廊街上幾乎空無(wú)一人。
In our shopping arcade,you can find different kinds of souvenir.在我們的拱廊市場(chǎng)，你可以發(fā)現(xiàn)許多的紀(jì)念品。
