Though I am not deeply interested in video games, everyone at some point has played videos games and most commonly Mario. It is amazing once you look back at videos games from before, and look at the video games from now. Starting from sticks to stick figures, moving into more specific spaces, cartoon characters, and now lastly human like characters, making it seem like you're present in the game and you are seeing everything like you would in a real game. From the oldest Nintendo, to the Nintendo 64, Game Cube, Xbox, newest Xbox, and now The Wii. The Wii allows the player to be physically active, sometimes also mentally and virtually. As technology develops so does video games.
Do you see the difference in all of the above Mario Karts? How they have developed through years and how it has changed, it is much more clear and some provide internet while others have cool cars and different clothing for all characters. The development in Video games is due to the development in technology.
In my opinion, this games have evoloped enough to the point that they are detrimental to us. They aren't good. They more as addicting, once you start you dont want to stop and playing non-stop will obviously result into something bad. This distracts you from your real life, and you set everything aside because of one video game. In my opinion this new games aren't considered to be called video games anymore, sure they are games but technology is way to far off making video games so real that it looks like its real life.
Remember that nintendo system? Nintendo 64. That can be you, just imagine its an Xbox.
BBC research indicates that 60% of people, of all ages play video games. I'd say that its safe to assume the proportion is similar in the rest of the post-industrial world. The proportion of youth identified as gamers is even higher then this and as they get older they also wont stop meaning that the number will increase.
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1:05 PM
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
