nostalgic

my gaming resume is sad. the first ever computer animated game i played was a Donald Duck conveyor belt game at my friends house where donald moved groceries. exciting stuff. Keeping up with the play we had sega with Alex the Kid and Sonic the Hedgehog (see the link for how much it's changed) which at the time was amazing and addictive then Nintendo and Nintendo 64, all being up-graded until finally we finished with a playstation2 of which i will only play any tekken or DVDs on, basically because thats all i can do. I'm still infatuated with Sonic and the Super Mario Brothers, doom for a while and street fighter though the angst of it wore me out. The quality of animation and the secret links and codes that you have to know or download is scary. You can forget how much everything is moving forward without you. The gaming industry is said to be worth about 16 billion dollars. Movies are being made from games- Silent Hill, Halo, Doom etc and even moviemakers like Peter J want to make games. Regular sporting games have been made into control games where we see our celebrity sports heroes play at our every control. OUR control. My view is, gaming is control, its identity and power or capability to improve. I get the idea that a reason the industry is so enormous is because we're always looking forsomething more to improve on and conquer. Tekken 3 had a something that everytime you conquered all the rounds and contestants, you saw avideo and sometimes gained a player. this probably happens in most games and its addictive. ands its alwasy geting bigger and better thats why we're always buying and they're alwasy coming up with bigger and better. Games like Sims and Age of Empires, i believe are part of our desire to create a different identity from our own thats controllable and without judgement. like barbies or lego. And there's the games like grand theft auto or tony hawke actually most games, where you can pick and choose the appearnce, nationality of your character there's even a boxing game where you can stretch or thin out the length of your fighters nose, waist hairline mouth etc. obviously this must play a significant role in gaming. I think that becuase the more often yuou keep playing a game the better you get and you can only get better is another attraction to the game, who wouldn't want a world where if you fail you can completely start again and wipe your mistakes. GAming is the future, so one will have to keep up with the play though i'm not gonna go out and buy the xbox 360. probably because the only games i like playing are the ones where my brother says i'm cheating by pressing all the buttons..i.e street fighters tekkens. this is also why my gaming knowledge is limited.