The revolution of gaming

Have you ever played a game so many times over and over and over again to the point of getting sick of it, then come back to it again, no matter how many years have passed?

I remember first playing Super Mario on my Gameboy, my brother got it on his way back from the states and it was a school night, I plugged the NightVisor "whatever you call it these days" and got hooked up to it until the batteries died. The first thing I did when I woke up was hiding my GB in my bag and taking it to school. I did play it during my class until my homeroom teacher took it from me, he said I can take it back when I'm done with school. When the GameGear was first released i remember going to WonderLand and purchasing it with all my school allowance. I threw the GB so fast that I spent days playing Sonic on it over and over again, well until the 8 Batteries died after a couple of hours anyways. A few months later however, I did go back to playing Castlevania and completely forgetting about the GG.

Seeing how I first played CastleVania on my MSX2 & Super Mario Bros. on the NES reminded me about the good old days, how games were simple and so much enjoyable, games these days do lack that certain flare I had when I was a kid, maybe it's because I'm growing older or just the new "Hyped" graphically insane looks doesn't satisfy me enough. I still play games up to this day and I do love how the industry grew to almost every house in the planet. People don't call us "Clusterphobic People" anymore and casual gamers range from young kids to older people, this is a revolution in it's own and something that everyone should be happy about.

I know I'm ranting a lot and people who are still reading know what I'm trying to say, games used to be fun, some games still have that in spades and they are either for kids or hardcore players. The only game I still play no matter when I'm at work or at home is [Ridge Racer] for the PSP, that game still holds that spark among so many generic games, mostly FPS's. Don't get me wrong I actually grew up playing Wolfenstein-Doom I, II & III-Duke Nukem. So far the only "Amazing & AAA" games these days are either Modern Warfare 1-2, Halo, KillZone 2 & .

That doesn't mean that games are setting us back but most of my friends are either playing MW2 to a point of it being a part of their life, young kids who are underaged play that game and yell/scream profanity online making it uncomfortable to play anymore. I still haven't seen or heard, then again I am playing mostly online with close friends and prefer not to engage with random people online.

So in closure I could say games did become the new media for both storytelling and bringing people closer, it's either a grandfather playing Wii Sports with his grandson, a grandmother playing Cooking Mama with her granddaughters or just enjoying a nice game or capture the flag with the son as the team captain and his father his backup. Games went from being Crucified & burying any kid who plays it, to being a modern day necessity for every home