A Day without Air.

Imagine an alternate reality, where there were no video games.

As gamers we hear so many story from the ones before us about times when video games didn't exist. Stories about times when they had to move and actually play sport. And outside?

Some gamers play video games everyday, some play on weekends . Personally I play every second day. What's the longest you've went without playing a video game? I remember a time when I was grounded for 6 months, I just got that new game "Yoshi's Island" and I couldn't play it. The days were slow, VERY SLOW. I looked at my Super Nintendo all, everyday since the beginning with anticipation. So finally, when that time limit was actually done, I ran to my Super Nintendo and played non-stop thus making me HOOKED on Video Games.

Moral of the story: Parents, the more you take away things, the more children want them. That's why I laugh at all the parents that think you can eliminate a childs interest in video games just by removing them from existance.

Back to main topic though...

I often think of things children use to do, in the old days of my Grand Parents. They didn't have video games and I wondered what would've done at that time. I pictured myself hitting a rock side to side on the ground with my hands. So, I actually asked my Grand Father what he did when he a child he said the following, "When I was a kid, in the war, I push the wheel barrels full of cement to build the home in Greece." I don't know about you, but playing "Smash Bros" sounds a lot more fun.

At school I go to this table, that inculdes a lot of my friend that all (surprise surprise) play Nintendo DS. When even one of us doesn't charge or have there Nintendo DS, the day slows down and sometimes, we don't even play. The day turns into, constant glacing at the clock for some, or constant girlfriend occupation. Ladies and gentlemen, this is just one day!

So what do we call times without video games, or places without video games? Where are very way of life is questioned and sacrificed. Where one has to be placed in dangerous senerios to emulate a dangerous adventurous experience. Where all swords in adventures and guns in FPS' become reallity. A reality where parents can't shut there kids up. A reality where children have to get into war and fights to feel the same amount intensity.

Non stop violence. Non stop bordom. Non stop antispation for something that will never come.

What do we call this?



Hell.