I suppose it is inevitable, as you get older you start to have tastes that do not match current trends. This happens in many aspects of life, like music, movies, food, and of course video games. I have been a long time gamer. Since the days I received my first Vic-20, and bought the Omega Race cartridge. I found comfort in spending hours of my time moving colorless sprites around the screen and blazingly slow speeds. I continued to upgrade consoles or computers as they came out. I had a C-64 later in grade school, and early high school, playing games like Raid over Moscow. I then moved on into high school and played games like Super Mario Brothers on the NES. College also saw times between football practices and classes having Tecmo Bowl tournaments.
After college, a new type of video game started to emerge, the FPS. I know that Wolfenstein, and Doom were actually out before I was done with school, but to me the first FPS was Quake. That changed how I looked at video games. Most games I played were FPS starting around this time. I would still play other types of games like Mario 64 at times, but even on the N-64 I found myself playing Golden Eye. This trend has continued on through today. I played CODs, and MOH on the PS2, with a bit of Black thrown in. Even at my elevated age today I still like that genre, evident by my selections of Resistance one and two and COD4.
I guess all that "boring" history brings me to my final point. I have always played video games to sit down and relax. If I want to jump around, swing things, or exercise I get out to do these things. I don't want to do it while playing a game. If I want to go bowling I head down the street to hit the alley. If I want to exercise, I go to the gym and play basketball, volleyball, or lift some weights. I don't find fault in others enjoying these types of games, but I just don't understand them, or really enjoy them. Heck when I was young and you were jumping around in front of the TV you were getting yelled at. This of course, was right after you had walked to and from school uphill both ways in a freezing rain infused hurricane.
Oh well, I guess I will just sit back and watch my 9 year old jump around and laugh playing her Wii, maybe some day it will grow on me, but I doubt it.
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