Why are video games so addictive? Why do I feel I need to waste my life on one little game? Especially the Sims? What do you get out of that crap? I remember the Atari. There used to be this game where you had to go and find the key to the castle or something. You were a little square wandering around in a seven color world. So you would be (walking? how does a square walk?) minding your own business. And then snap! A horrible looking dragon thing would come out and chase you down, snapping at you until you were resting comfortably in it's stomach. Well it wasn't exactly horrible looking, but it was scary for a five year old. Or maybe just to me. The whole concept of someone chasing you (even a pixalated dragon) freaks me out.
So I didn't enjoy the Atari too much but I just had to get the Nintendo. God, I was in love. I used to fake sickness so I could play. My mom would find me playing after faking my horrible disease and walk out sighing. I really remember her doing that one time. Dr. Mario we made a family game. Piting family memeber against family member in a do or die situtation against rogue plague diseases. Aw, good times.
Later on, when the Super Nintendo was pimpin' it. I became obsessed with Final Fantasy 3. I mean, who didn't? That game, to this day, is the best game in the series. Now of days they're just confusing. Amazingly beautiful, but confusing. This had an easy enough story line to follow, beautiful music (I had the soundtrack, beat that you nerd!), the best characters (like twenty billion of them, yet all their own seperate story lines were wonderfully flushed out and full), and by far the best video game villian...can I say...ever? (Poisioning a whole town, killing Leo, that evil laugh, that come hither stare, Kefka was a pimp...an evil pimp...I guess most pimps aren't very nice though) Anyway, many hours of my life were spent on that crap. I feel like suing Squaresoft. But then again I can't. They gave me Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana. Some of the best games ever.
Well now we come to today. I think there is a major problem with video games now. You raise all these kids from like five years old, playing video games. Come out with better systems, cooler games, (has anyone played Twilight Princess?) and then expect us as adults to lead lives and have jobs and take care of our kids. What's up with that crap? Was I supposed to at age 20 give up my love for video games? Was there a cut off point I wasn't aware of? I just played the Wii the other day and my son was involed in two separate Wii accidents already. (He got smacked in the arm and smacked in the back of the head...were good parents.) What am I supposed to do? When he's graduating from college is it expected of me to stop playing video games? Will he hate me because I spend more time on his Playstation 300 then he does? Will I be playing "Legend of Zelda for Cripes Sake Save Me Link" when I've 93?
I hate you video games! Damn you to hell! And then catch me online watching Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children.
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