Mm Hello, this is six minute english from BBC learning english.

你好，這裡是BBC學習英語的六分鐘英語。

I'm rob and I'm Georgina Georgina.

我是Rob，我是Georgina Georgina。

You recently mentioned in 16 minute english program about N F.

你最近在16分鐘的英語節目中提到了N F。

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S and that you had a collection of Pokemon cards when you were younger.

S，而且你年輕時有一個口袋妖怪卡的收藏。

Yes, I did.

是的，我做到了。

And I still can't find them.

而我仍然找不到他們。

Why did you bring that up?

你為什麼要提出這個問題？

Well, Pokemon started out as a video game series that turned into anime, movies and trading cards, among other things.

好吧，《口袋妖怪》一開始是一個視頻遊戲系列，後來變成了動畫、電影和交易卡，以及其他東西。

And in this program we're talking about a video game character that is iconic, a word which means widely known and recognized that character's name is super Mario.

而在這個節目中，我們談論的是一個具有標誌性的視頻遊戲角色，這個詞的意思是廣為人知和公認的，這個角色的名字是超級馬里奧。

Ah I spent many hours of my childhood playing with Nintendo.

啊，我的童年有很多時間是在玩任天堂。

Super Mario or his rival Sega's sonic the hedgehog.

超級馬里奧或他的競爭對手世嘉的刺蝟索尼克（sonic the hedgehog）。

Now these days, video games are everywhere and people of all ages enjoy playing them.

現在這些天，電子遊戲隨處可見，所有年齡段的人都喜歡玩這些遊戲。

There's also competitive e sports events where gamers compete for what often considerable amounts of money.

還有競爭性的電子競技活動，遊戲者在這些活動中爭奪的往往是可觀的金錢。

Yes.

是的。

And there are also streamers that appear on platforms like twitch and Youtube who have become celebrities in their own rights.

還有一些出現在twitch和Youtube等平臺上的流媒體人，他們已經成為自己的名人。

Talking about celebrities.

談及名人。

I have a question about the famous character we're talking about in this program.

我有一個關於我們在這個節目中談論的著名人物的問題。

Many people remember super Mario brothers as being the first time we saw Mario, but he first appeared in another game, which was it, was it a the legend of Zelda, be donkey kong or see Pokemon.

許多人記得超級馬里奧兄弟是我們第一次看到馬里奧，但他第一次出現在另一個遊戲中，是哪一個，是塞爾達傳說，是大金剛還是看到口袋妖怪。

I'm not sure about that.

我不確定這一點。

I can't remember him being in Pokemon.

我不記得他在《口袋妖怪》中出現過。

So I'll go for a, the legend of Zelda.

所以我會選擇一個，塞爾達的傳說。

Okay, Georgina, we'll find out if you're right at the end of the program.

好吧，喬治娜，我們會在節目的最後發現你是否正確。

So we established at the start of the program that these days the video games industry is thriving.

是以，我們在計劃開始時就確定，這些天來，視頻遊戲行業正在蓬勃發展。

True.

確實如此。

But it wasn't always that way.

但它並不總是這樣。

It's hard to imagine now.

現在很難想象。

But in the 1980s the console market was struggling, particularly in the us Kevin MacDonald.

但在20世紀80年代，控制檯市場正在掙扎，特別是在美國，凱文-麥克唐納。

Video games editor for the Guardian newspaper explains what was happening in the early 1980s.

衛報》的視頻遊戲編輯解釋了1980年代初發生的事情。

Here she is on the BBC World Service Program.

這裡是她在英國廣播公司的世界服務節目。

You and yours speaking with Peter White.

你和你的人與彼得-懷特交談。

Well back then, especially in America, there had been a flood of games that were just not very high quality.

當時，特別是在美國，有大量的遊戲，只是品質不高。

And one of the games that often cited as a factor in the collapse was this game called E.

而經常被引為崩潰因素的遊戲之一是這個叫E的遊戲。

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On the Atari.

在雅達利上。

Which was so bad that they ended up burying thousands of copies of it in the desert because nobody bought them.

它是如此糟糕，以至於他們最後把成千上萬的副本埋在沙漠裡，因為沒有人買。

Uh so we've had especially in America, this didn't happen so much in europe, but in America there's just been lots and lots of software.

呃，所以我們有特別是在美國，這在歐洲沒有發生那麼多，但在美國有很多很多的軟件。

None of it was all that great.

這一切都不是那麼偉大。

There wasn't, there hadn't been anything really revolutionary in some years.

沒有，有些年頭沒有真正的革命性的東西了。

So the video game boom was really falling off a cliff and Nintendo is what rescued it in the U.

是以，視頻遊戲的繁榮真的是掉下懸崖，而任天堂是在美國拯救了它。

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Especially Kevin Macdonald used the term a flood of meaning a large number in a short period of time to describe the number of games that were coming out.

特別是凱文-麥克唐納（Kevin Macdonald）用了一個術語a flood of，意思是在短時間內有大量的遊戲問世。

She used cited which means referenced or noted when talking about the game E.

她在談到遊戲E時用了cited，意思是引用或指出。

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Being a reference for a factor in the collapse of the console market.

作為控制檯市場崩潰的一個因素的參考。

And she said boom a sudden period of growth.

而她說轟轟烈烈的突然增長期。

So as E.

所以作為E.

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Was mentioned as a factor in the collapse, many people say that Super Mario brothers was the reason that video games really took off, especially in the US.

被提到是崩潰的一個因素，許多人說，超級馬里奧兄弟是視頻遊戲真正起飛的原因，特別是在美國。

It's interesting to consider what might have been if its creator, Shigeru Miyamoto had never created that character.

想一想，如果其創造者宮本茂沒有創造這個角色，可能會是什麼樣子，這很有意思。

The question is why is that game so popular?

問題是為什麼該遊戲如此受歡迎？

What made it so fun to play here is Kevin Mcdonald speaking again with Peter White on the BBC World Service program.

在這裡播放的是凱文-麥克唐納與彼得-懷特在BBC世界服務節目中的再次談話，這讓人感到非常有趣。

You and yours explaining why Mario is just so popular and what makes the original games so satisfying to play.

你和你的解釋為什麼馬里奧就是這麼受歡迎，是什麼讓原始遊戲如此令人滿意。

It's just such a joy to play.

玩起來實在是太高興了。

It's running and jumping and it's the joy of movement when when you play even the original Super Mario brothers you just feel this sense of joy in your movement and it's one of the is one of the greatest games ever made.

它是奔跑和跳躍，是運動的快樂，當你玩原始的超級馬里奧兄弟時，你只是在運動中感到這種快樂的感覺，它是有史以來最偉大的遊戲之一。

And a lot of games from 35 years ago are basically unplayable now.

而35年前的很多遊戲現在基本上都不能玩了。

They might have been a steps to something greater.

他們可能是通往更偉大事物的一個步驟。

But Mario was one of those few that really holds up today as well as it did them.

但馬里奧是為數不多的真正能像他們一樣在今天保持良好狀態的人之一。

Kevin MacDonald said that some games from 35 years ago are unplayable so not possible to play them.

凱文-麥克唐納說，35年前的一些遊戲是無法播放的，所以不可能播放它們。

But she said that Mario holds up a term used to say that something standards or quality has not lessened.

但她說，馬里奧舉出了一個術語，用來表示某些東西的標準或品質並沒有降低。

It certainly does hold up.

當然，它確實能保持下去。

In fact, I played it the other day and I had lots of fun with it.

事實上，我前幾天玩了這個遊戲，我對它有很多樂趣。

It reminded me of my childhood and it's still as good now as it was then.

它讓我想起了我的童年，現在仍然像當時一樣好。

Which reminds me of your quiz question rob.

這讓我想起了你的測驗問題，Rob。

Yes.

是的。

In my quiz question, I asked Georgina which game had the first appearance of that famous plumber Mario?

在我的問答問題中，我問喬治娜哪個遊戲有那個著名的水管工馬里奧的第一次出現？

I went for a, the legend of Zelda ah, which is wrong.

我去找了一個，塞爾達傳說啊，這是不對的。

I'm afraid Mario's first appearance was in donkey kong and his creator, shigeru Miyamoto never thought he would be that popular.

恐怕馬里奧的第一次亮相是在《金剛》中，他的創造者宮本茂從未想過他會那麼受歡迎。

Well, I guess we've already learned something today.

好吧，我想我們今天已經學到了一些東西。

Let's recap the vocabulary from today's program about super Mario starting with iconic, famously associated with something and instantly recognizable.

讓我們回顧一下今天節目中關於超級瑪麗的詞彙，從標誌性的開始，與某件事情相關的著名的、可立即識別的。

Then we had a flood of which means a large amount of something in a short space of time cited means reference as or noted boom relates to explosion and means a short period of sudden growth.

然後我們就有了洪水，這意味著在很短的時間內有大量的東西，引證的意思是指作為或注意到繁榮與爆炸有關，意味著短時間內的突然增長。

Unplayable describes something that can't be played or a game that is very difficult to enjoy and finally holds up means that the quality or standards of something hasn't changed and still looks good or plays well that's all for this program.

不能玩的描述的是不能玩的東西或很難享受的遊戲，最後保持的意思是東西的品質或標準沒有改變，仍然看起來很好或玩得很好，這就是這個項目的全部。