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I stopped playing them after I dusted off my NES for my then 6 year-old son and he started whupping my butt. Later on, when N64 was released and he started playing I tried, but failed, to compete with him. The video game market has passed me by. I even bought my son an Atari collection because I played those games in high school. I figured I was a ringer and would finally beat him on whatever platform he was using at the time. But after only 2 or 3 deaths he started whupping me again in each and every game we played.
In the end, after all those hours I spent playing video games...where'd it get me? My son is hooked on them, but it's not something we enjoy together. There IS a social component to the interactive/on-line games...but it's a highly dysfunctional one. Everything that I "learned" with those games that I played is obsolete and antiquated. If you're hooked on video games now...this story is your future. Give it up. Do something useful...like spend hours and hours on College Confidential!
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