Posted on 11/15/2017 at 11:34 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
I see video games as a form of entertainment just like movies, music, tv, sports, etc and I'd like to say over the past 10 years or so games have moved from something kids play to mainstream. I think it's evolution started to change when there was a channel on Directv that was about video games, and ESPN started to air the Madden Challenge. People who didn't play video games growing up, or stopped see the hobby as what they remembered it, a kids game but in today's world many people see games as something to do with friends, relaxation, and recently a job with all these eSports events poppinng up on TV.
I found his point about finishing a game and getting nothing out of it funny because we all have a favorite movie we've seen a thousand times or a favorite album that we can listen to over and over again. The emotions and memories associated with those forms of media are special to us, and video games are no different. With certain songs I can be transported back to a certain point in my life, and playing certain games can trigger the same emotion in people.
Video games have grown up and evolved and I feel it now has the same status as other forms of media.