Do you remember Pong? If you do then you are probably amazed at the intricate story lines and gameplay on Xbox 360 RPGs ( role playing games for those of you who do remember Pong or who can answer the question where were you when Kennedy was shot ). We were amazed at the power the internet brought into our homes in the early 90′s allowing us to send emails around the world and suddenly communicate with friends everywhere without expensive phone calls or snailmail that may take days to reach them.
So, for those of us who may like the orderly progression of events we may have to be prepared to have our socks knocked off. For our kids though this IS the natural progression. They are in the group that believe video games are cool but they will become cooler.
The answer may not be that far off. In todays Yahoo tech news we got a sneak peak of the latest video game delivery system. READ MORE
This is exciting news for many reasons. If you are a gamer it is exciting because it potentially gives you easier access to a wider variety of games. As a person who doesn’t really like a ton of clutter in the living room this new gaming console is the size of a Nintendo DS ( or the size of a Steven King paperback for the Pong-ers ). That’s it. There are of course the controllers but other than that everything else is streaming and stored online. For parents who have plunked down $600 for a game console only to find that it is already outdated or that the kid still needs another system to play an entirely different set of games – this may be an exciting development because all the updates go on virtually through software updates instead of hardware updates. Kids seem to understand this intuitively but for the rest of us we just need to keep up and try to make sure our kids stay safe and that we don’t totally get ahead of ourselves.
Next: recommended gamer news sites to help the rest of us keep up
