Ralph Waldo Emerson

In true sense of Self Reliance I will speak my own mind on Emerson and not stand on the shoulders of others. If Emerson were a video game system he would have been a Colecovision.

What is one of those? It's a



That's right two phones with a stick attacthed. Released in 1982 it has 14 buttons in an age where everyone else has 1! "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines (1168). The idea is that this system provided enough expandability to accompany almost any game's idea for how they wanted to play.

In life he was adhead of his time with thinking. Because, he always studied he was able to sysnthize many ideas into one. Much like the Colecovision, Emerson was ahead of his time but both were immensely popular in their ages.

The only hard part is control, or rather how to control this amount of buttons or ideas. The Retroist laments, "The siren song of amazing graphics is hard to resist, but if your system is difficult to use, you will lose your audience." What to do with ideas that aren't easily boiled down into what you want them to be, is the same problem people have with a 14-button controller: When everyone is used to one way of doing things (the easy 1-button way) changing ideas and hand positioning will be hard.