【精英翻譯】的部落格

精英翻譯轉自https://paper.udn.com/papers.php?pname=POH0054

The first home videogame console came out in 1972. Its name was the Magnavox Odyssey, and it cost the same as about $600 dollars. What did you get for your money? Only 28 games, and most of them were very simple. No wonder only 350,000 people bought one.

第一台家用電玩遊戲機於 1972 年問世，名稱叫做「美格福斯奧德賽」，售價約 600 元美金。這樣的花費能讓你擁有什麼？你只有 28 種遊戲可玩，而且多數遊戲都非常簡易，難怪只有 35 萬人買單。

Back then, video games were totally new. You didn’t play them because they were super fun. You played them because they were strange (that is, if you could play them at all). Not many people owned a video game console in those early years.

在那個時代，電玩遊戲完全是新玩意兒。打電玩的原因不在於超好玩，而是因為它們很奇特（也就是說，你也不見得有機會玩到）。早年沒有很多人擁有電玩遊戲機。

Now, everyone from your best friend to your grandmother plays video games. Whether on a smartphone or a video game console, we all love to play. It used to be strange to play video games. Now it is strange not to play them. Just think: the PlayStation 4 sold over 115 million consoles in its lifetime. That is a whole lot more than the Magnavox Odyssey!

如今，從你的好友到奶奶，人人都在打電玩。無論是智慧型手機或電玩遊戲機，我們都愛玩。打電玩曾經是一件奇怪的事，現在是不玩的人才奇怪。試想看看：PlayStation 4 的時代賣出超過1.15 億台遊戲機，比美格福斯奧德賽還要多太多了！

Take a look at the timeline below. A timeline lists events in order from earliest to latest. This one lists some popular video game consoles and the dates they came out.

請看看以下的年表。年表會依照時間最早到最晚的順序列出事件。此年表則列出部分熱門的電玩遊戲機以及問世的日期。