I think I was about 6 years old when I played a video game for the first time. My older brother, who was ten, had got a Nintendo 8 bit in birthday present. The first video games were Ice Climber and Super Mario Bros. I feel a little bit nostalgic writing about this. Not in order that I played a lot, it just that it reminds me how fast the video game industry develops. I still think that the Mario Bros games are the best video games of all time (even if it's in 2D).
Today I don’t play video games so much either. In itself, I do own some video games for Playstation 2: 6 games of Singstar and 1 Dancing Stage Max. These games are just party enhancers. I also own a Game Cube where I play Mario Bros games. And of course I have some PC games as well. I don’t have time to play often though; there is no time for playing in my hectic schedule. Because I think it’s more important to socialize with your friends and to exercise your body in real life than playing that you do so in the virtual world.
Why are people playing so much then? I think it’s an easy escape from reality. You don’t need to use your imagination because someone has already done it for you. And you don’t need to spend much time to put an effort to be entertained.
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Hi Helen,
In your last paragraph you have used the evil expression “you”. My suggestion to solve this problem is the following paragraph:
Why are people playing so much then? I think it’s an easy escape. En escapee didn’t need to use his imagination because someone has already done it for them. And the time to put an effort to be entertained goes to zero.
In the last paragraph is en nice aspect, which I haven’t thought before: The escapee escapes not in his own illusion but rather in the illusion created by another person, or more a company.
Regards
Harald
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