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Old Man Murray (aka OMM) is a UGO Networks computer game commentary and reviews site, known for its highly irreverent and satiric tone. It was written and edited by Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw. Old Man Murray was critical of games that received strong reviews elsewhere, most notably the ''King's Quest'' series. Common targets of OMM news updates included John Romero and American McGee. Old Man Murray was a significant early influence in both the world of game development and Internet comedy, and is often considered to have "helped birth online games journalism".〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OldManMurray )〕 ==Themes== A major theme in Old Man Murray criticism was the accusation that many new games failed to add any original ideas to the medium. Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve Corporation, cited the opinion of Old Man Murray as a factor when designing the popular and iconoclastic ''Half-Life''. Old Man Murray often took aim at the conventions embedded within game genres. Two of the site's attacks on stale game conventions have received particular attention from game developers and journalists. One was the April 2000 "Crate Review System" essay, which half-seriously introduced the "Start to Crate" metric as an "objective" measure of the overall quality of a videogame. The Start to Crate was the number of seconds from the start of a game until the player first encountered a crate or barrel. By 2000, crates and barrels were a commonplace of video game map design; according to the essay, the first crate "represents the point where the developers ran out of ideas".〔 This essay has had a significant impact in future game design, in part for pointing out "a good gauge to determine just how creative your game is",〔Rogers, Scott. (Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design ), Wiley, 2010 p. 341. Accessed March 3, 2010.〕 and driving designers to a point where games are "at the stage where warehouse based level design is not ''de rigueur''".〔(10 Trends in Game Design )"〕 Gabe Newell mentions that there was such a worry about the crate cliché that eventually the team gave up and made a crate one of the first things the player sees and manipulates, figuring that this "was the Old Man Murray equivalent of throwing yourself to the mercy of the court".〔Raising the Bar, Valve〕 LightBox Interactive's Matthew Breit considered the "Start to Crate Time" system the "first actual critical look at a level design trend", making him self-conscious of the off-handed use of crates in his level designs to fill an otherwise empty room.〔 Ernest Adams of Gamasutra cites Old Man Murray as being the original source of the sixth condition of "twinkie denial" named in the article: "I can't claim crates without pallets as an original Twinkie Denial Condition because the Old Man Murray guys thought of it first...".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gamasutra )〕 A decade after the original "Start to Crate" article, it can still be found as a tongue-in-cheek metric for game quality. Another essay, "The Death of Adventure Games", mocked the elaborate and contrived puzzles that adventure games of the time used to confound the player. Wolpaw uses an example from ''Gabriel Knight 3'': the game requires the player to fashion a false mustache from hair collected from a cat by means of sticky tape and to attach it to his lip with maple syrup — all to impersonate a man who himself has no mustache. The essay and its examples have been highlighted in analyses of the failing adventure game genre in the early 2000s. Other features of Old Man Murray included web browser games such as ''Alien vs. Child Predator''〔 and ''Virtua Seaman'' as well as serious interviews with leading game developers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Erik )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 first=Erik )〕 The Old Man Murray forums were a hotbed of discussion on games and other topics. When updates began to slow on the main website the forums remained active. When Faliszek removed the forums, many of the regular posters migrated to a new site called Caltrops. The Old Man Murray website is still up , but for archival purposes only; the site is no longer updated. Faliszek continued to run Portal of Evil and its affiliate website system until February 6, 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Old Man Murray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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