The seeing machine was once a sort of dark room into which individuals spied; it has become a transparent building in which the exercise of power may be supervised by society as a whole

a simple idea in architecture

The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power

He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.

Visibility is a trap.

if they are schoolchildren

The constant division between the normal and the abnormal, to which every individual is subjected, brings us back to our own time, by applying the binary branding and exile of the leper to quite different objects; the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring, supervising and correcting the abnormal brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms to which the fear of the plague gave rise.

What other games, game forms and game elements do they draw on? What player skills from other games will transfer to this game? How exactly is the game played, with how many people, doing what sorts of things? Also, what programming language was the game written in, using what sort of development process? How many people were involved in designing and producing it, and what earlier code was directly incorporated or otherwise re-used? How does the game play with or against the platform on which it was implemented and the history of programming on that platform?

Combat might somehow be tortured into confessing a story, but what it mainly does is facilitate a particular type of competition, providing an apparatus and context for play, a computer-mediated way of interacting with another player rather than a digital vehicle for an expressive message

This is the technological factor that most directly accounts for the horizontal symmetry of the playing field in Combat. An idea of a fair playing field was no doubt the basis for this hardware decision in the first place

the wood-grain plastic front of the case �" the design of which is imitated in the Flashback 2.0 �" made it seem, at the time of its release, more like a piece of furniture or a stereo component than like some piece of esoteric hobbyist electronics, such as a HAM radio or one of the Altair microcomputers that were available before the VCS.

a model that distinguishes five levels

by being bundled with the VCS originally it helped to assert that play involving several people was the ordinary use of this system.

the cartridge