Wasted days and wasted nights... or, the games people play.
I didn't used to play games. Fact is, in my many years as a computer consultant I avoided having any games on my computer(s). There is, I surmised, a time for work and a time for play. My computers were work tools.
Even after retiring I avoided having games on my computer. On occassion I would receive a game link in my email and investigate. Even tried them now and then. But mostly I found little time or interest in computer games. Today there are still no games on my computer.
Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with playing computer games. Some of them are ingenious, educational, therapeutic, and yes... even fun. I just never seemed to have time for them.
How it all started:
A bit more than a year ago a good friend and I were having dinner at a local eatery and she mentioned that her son (age 16) felt bad because all of his friends had either a Play Station, Xbox or Wii and she couldn't afford to get him one. She wished that she could so he would spend more evenings at home and even have his friends over. On the way home I stopped by the "Game Station", which was near the eatery, and bought a PS 2 and a Wii along with a few of the games the store keeper said were popular with the kids. I gave them to my friend, on loan until she could afford to buy her son whichever one he preferred. She was, of course, grateful and, as it turned out her son was elated and did start spending more time at home and inviting his friends.
A couple of months ago my friend returned both the PS 2 and Wii to me. She had saved enough to by her son a Play Station 3, which was the preference of her son and his group of friends. I set them on a table, where they collected dust for a couple of weeks. Then, one Saturday afternoon, while watching golf, a Tiger Woods PGA Tour game caught my attention ... as all thing golf do.
That evening I went down and purchased the game for the PS 2. After a few trial and error games I was hooked.Within a few days I picked up a couple of games for the Wii ... Super Mario Kart and Wii Sports, which had a golf game included. There was no turning back now. Hours began melting away as I worked at master Mario Kart. When I tired and became frustrated I would switch to Wii Sports. The golf game was okay but not really one that would capture much of my time in my new game playing career. Wii Sports bowling took that honor and before long I was in a local Wii Bowling League.
While taking a break from wallowing in some dark, dank and dreary canyon off the road in Wario's Gold Mine, which I constantly drove into with Luigi, in his Wild Wing, I took a moment to explore the other Wii features. Before long I was on the Wii Shopping Channel downloading Virtual Console games: Pacman, Donkey Kong, Super Mario; (nostalgia from my younger days playing 8 and 16 bit video games in arcades) ... and YES, Mario Golf, which Nintendo ported to the Wii Virtual Console, from N64.
I wasn't surprised to discover and endless list of available game, from sports to RPG to puzzles, and more. Mario Kart, Wii Sports Bowling and Mario Golf head my list of favorites. Many of the others are more or less uninteresting to me; some are just plain wasted time. Those others I do find interesting don't fit in my playing schedule.
Yes... that's what I said, playing schedule. I got so absorbed in the games I play that I had to make a playing schedule to end this game playing madness and have a life away from Wii.
That's the way it is in my world... and so it goes.
Wii Friend ID: 0559-9800-4853
I didn't used to play games. Fact is, in my many years as a computer consultant I avoided having any games on my computer(s). There is, I surmised, a time for work and a time for play. My computers were work tools.
Even after retiring I avoided having games on my computer. On occassion I would receive a game link in my email and investigate. Even tried them now and then. But mostly I found little time or interest in computer games. Today there are still no games on my computer.
Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with playing computer games. Some of them are ingenious, educational, therapeutic, and yes... even fun. I just never seemed to have time for them.
How it all started:
A bit more than a year ago a good friend and I were having dinner at a local eatery and she mentioned that her son (age 16) felt bad because all of his friends had either a Play Station, Xbox or Wii and she couldn't afford to get him one. She wished that she could so he would spend more evenings at home and even have his friends over. On the way home I stopped by the "Game Station", which was near the eatery, and bought a PS 2 and a Wii along with a few of the games the store keeper said were popular with the kids. I gave them to my friend, on loan until she could afford to buy her son whichever one he preferred. She was, of course, grateful and, as it turned out her son was elated and did start spending more time at home and inviting his friends.
A couple of months ago my friend returned both the PS 2 and Wii to me. She had saved enough to by her son a Play Station 3, which was the preference of her son and his group of friends. I set them on a table, where they collected dust for a couple of weeks. Then, one Saturday afternoon, while watching golf, a Tiger Woods PGA Tour game caught my attention ... as all thing golf do.
That evening I went down and purchased the game for the PS 2. After a few trial and error games I was hooked.Within a few days I picked up a couple of games for the Wii ... Super Mario Kart and Wii Sports, which had a golf game included. There was no turning back now. Hours began melting away as I worked at master Mario Kart. When I tired and became frustrated I would switch to Wii Sports. The golf game was okay but not really one that would capture much of my time in my new game playing career. Wii Sports bowling took that honor and before long I was in a local Wii Bowling League.
While taking a break from wallowing in some dark, dank and dreary canyon off the road in Wario's Gold Mine, which I constantly drove into with Luigi, in his Wild Wing, I took a moment to explore the other Wii features. Before long I was on the Wii Shopping Channel downloading Virtual Console games: Pacman, Donkey Kong, Super Mario; (nostalgia from my younger days playing 8 and 16 bit video games in arcades) ... and YES, Mario Golf, which Nintendo ported to the Wii Virtual Console, from N64.
I wasn't surprised to discover and endless list of available game, from sports to RPG to puzzles, and more. Mario Kart, Wii Sports Bowling and Mario Golf head my list of favorites. Many of the others are more or less uninteresting to me; some are just plain wasted time. Those others I do find interesting don't fit in my playing schedule.
Yes... that's what I said, playing schedule. I got so absorbed in the games I play that I had to make a playing schedule to end this game playing madness and have a life away from Wii.
That's the way it is in my world... and so it goes.
Wii Friend ID: 0559-9800-4853
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