Source:
https://scmp.com/article/392838/game

Game on

THE LAST TIME I sat down in front of a game machine it had Atari written across the front. Don't get me wrong, I am not one to pooh pooh games - there is a joystick attached to my machine as I write. Still, I was keen to see how far things had come since Asteroids, so I sat down to have a look at the latest in game consoles.

I started with Sony PlayStation 2. The machine is in a sleek black box a little smaller than a DVD player. The controls look like the those on all game machines: two handles, a couple of thumb joysticks and buttons that no one old enough to have seen Star Wars when it premiered could possibly manage to master. One interesting surprise was the force-feedback feature in the controller, which vibrates to let you know when you've run into something. Sony sent me the Gran Turismo Concept 2002 Tokyo-Geneva. I was happy to see that slamming into a fence at 180 kilometres per hour didn't disable the car. I wouldn't have made it around the track if it had.