A Matter of Perspective

It is a lot easier to play games than it is to do work...

In fact, the reason this musing is so short is that I am currently defending my title in a game that I play, so I don’t have a lot of time to write...

I love to play video games. Ever since my first foray into the video game world with a handheld football game (I can’t remember the maker) I have loved video games of all sorts.

That love continued on when we got an Atari. At first, we just had the games that came with the system when we purchased it. I think it was something like Tank and Pong!

Later we had Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man which were two of my favorites. Later still, we bought a game called Journey Escape. It was a lot of fun and very loosely based on the rock group Journey’s “Escape” Album.

I am sure we purchased it because it was inexpensive. But that was okay. We got hours of enjoyment from it and my mom and occasionally my dad would sit down with us girls and play!

After the Atari came other gaming systems, like the Nintendo, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation (1, 2 and 3), Sega and a host of others including handhelds like the Gameboy in its many versions.

Now I stick mostly to games I download on my phone, but on occasion, I will find a game I am very interested in and will purchase it.

Like I said, playing games is a lot easier to do than to do work, but I wonder what people who create games feel about that?

I mean, they are working while they create games. I always kind of thought it would be cool to create games. I used to have a lot of ideas, but most of them have decayed into oblivion due to other pursuits.

Still, the idea of creating a game that entrances the world...now that sounds like a good way to make a living.