autofantasia's photos with the keyword: games

An alternative version of Three, Four, Six ... , which was itself a 'nearly ran' for the recent Sunday Challenge when the theme was numbers . No real difference other than I had some fun with bubbles.

A 'nearly ran' for this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of numbers . Hopscotch is a children's game that was certainly popular when I was growing up, long before computers and smart phones took over. However, I'm not sure it's played much these days and therefore was surprised to recently find this one marked out in a children's playground in Romanby, Northallerton. When I first came across it the numbers were marked out in white, but when I returned this week to take this particular photo I found they'd been repainted in this very bright shade of yellow.

I took this shot in Darlington last week after I'd dropped my wife off at the railway station. I was going to use it for the recent Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of grey , but in the end opted for one of the shots I took at Lovesome Hill. This bit of urban art was at the entrance to a locked area across from the railway station and is obviously based on one of the characters from Pac-Man . Pac-Man is an arcade game that was developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, it is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. The player controls Pac-Man through a blue maze, eating pac-dots (also called pellets) and fruit. When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. However, four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man