Wow! Video games is not a easy topic, for my surprise, i just learned that 1970s is the era when video games history began. The Magnavox Odyssey is considered the first video game console and is amazing that this rustic technology (compare to recent models) was the base for the monstrosity of the video game industry. Certainly different console models have appeared from the 1970s, however, what makes me thing is why people actually need new consoles and why they are willing to buy this consoles. After learning part of the video games' history, i realized one of the main goal developers of early game systems was to create a console that audience can play at home. However, after they created the home consoles, the next issue the game company faced was the necessity to create entertaining video games wanted to buy and play. Games such as Pacman, Space Invaders, Tetris, Pong, etc. provided entertainment to gamers, however, gamers were interested in having more excitement and companies wanting to make profit in the growing game industry created new consoles and games to gain and retain costumers. Recently, video games and consoles have evolve in a rapid manner new consoles like WII, Play station and computers have changed the way that gamers experience the video games. Certainly, as the video games evolved the audiences evolve, as well, the critiques, and video game companies adapt the games to fit ideologies, and it can be recognize the changes in the game industry. Nowadays, video games companies are creating games that educate and entertain to youth, maybe because of they are their target audience and the previous critiques done to the lack of social skills of video gamers. Certainly the graphics have change as well and now look more real. This is one of the reasons i do not like video games because of the graphics, i get so lost with everything and to many weird images that annoys me when i am staring at the screen and the pointless feeling that video games give me. Somehow, because video games main purpose is to entertain in the leisure time, makes me feel i am wasting my time without doing something productive. However, for my surprise there are some real video games know as serious games. I realized these games provided something more that weird images and waste of time. One game i really like is http://www.gamesforchange.org/main/gameprof/647 A Seat At The Table. I was amazed of the amount of information that this video game has. It is a role play game, where the gamer plays the role of a person from a third world country and addresses issues such as poverty, globalization, hunger, and others, and during the game the gamer face up some situations and give 2 option and depending of what option he/she pick the gamer is what is going to happen with the characters. I think that this game was really informative and did not had that essence of video game because it had a lot of reading instead of really big graphics (which i dislike). Being a person that lived in a third world country, i found that this game is the perfect way for other people to realized how hard life is in these countries. Honestly, i do not know if the target audience s the adequate and i think it needs to be more older because of the amount of reading that the game has, I do not think that a 7 year old will be able to stay focus. Anyhow! Time is over and this blog is to long ...

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Cynthia Aguilera