In the spring and summer, I find that Amy and I spend much less time playing video games and watching TV because we’re outside playing sports or working in the yard. Our gaming consoles lay dormant, begging for
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some sort of activity. The same can’t be said for our wireless phones. I find that, while we don’t game much at home when it’s nice outside, we spend more time gaming away from home than ever.
Waiting in line at the grocery store, the DMV, or movie theater isn’t the test of our patience it once was. Now, we get out our wireless phones and pull up our favorite game to pass the time. We previously would have spent time looking for a clock and muttering the unspeakable under our breaths.
With wireless phones and devices that are more powerful than the computers and gaming consoles we played as children, you can almost always have your favorite game in hand, ready for the next time you’re stuck waiting.
Do you game? Do your children game?
Gene Bennett says:
July 29, 2009 at 6:39 am
Cory is so correct at how our phones have become a link to the world whereever we are. I happen to know he and Amy not only use them as gaming devices, however, they also use them to carry photos to share with friends and family, a connection to keep track of his favorite sports going on at any given time, send and receive email, the list is never ending.
His mom and I are fairly new to the A T & T family and are extremely pleased with the service and option we now enjoy versus our previous carrier. I look forward to the upcoming blogs from Cory and his new friends.
Michael says:
July 29, 2009 at 7:38 am
Remember Pong? That was the very first gaming console I ever got to play with. Then of course, there were the very first P.C.s. The first one I ever saw could do very simple tasks and required a cassette recorder to load its programming. I think this was 1980 when I first saw it.
I am amazed at how far technology has come in 30 years. If I had only known back then what my life would be like with a smart phone in my pocket.
Aunt Kathleen says:
July 29, 2009 at 8:31 am
Enjoy the gaming while you can! As soon as that baby arrives your gaming days will be a thing of the past! (At least for a while.) You won’t miss it though…. you’ll be too busy! And frankly, once you get that first smile, no game in the world will be more entertaining!
Cory says:
July 29, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I actually blame Pong for my lifelong interest in video games. My dad (who has already posted here at CCC) had an Atari Pong system when I was maybe 3 years old. All it played was Pong. It didn’t use cartridges for other games. Pong was it’s only purpose. We played that Pong system until it nearly died, or until I received a NES for my 5th birthday.
From there I graduated to 16-bit systems, then our first PC (a Packard Bell with a mere 40 megabyte HDD), and on up. Amy and my children are going to grow up with portable devices that are more capable and have more storage than the full-size desktops of our youth, and more so even than the early ’super-computers.’
My little cousins’ Nintendo DS’ process algorithms more efficiently than our first computer that took up as much space as an old console television. These advancements will never cease to entertain (or amaze) me.
Just Write says:
July 29, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Where do you game?…
Waiting in line … That’s not the test of our patience it once was.
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Cory says:
July 31, 2009 at 10:10 am
Interestingly enough, we’re so busy now that pretty much the only time I game is on my phone when on the road or when I’m stuck waiting for something. The sleepless nights of early parenthood might grant me the only gaming time I’ll get in front of a TV. Then again, maybe not.
Botmann says:
August 3, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I don’t game much on my phone, but I do watch movies/tv shows while waiting in line. I still prefer a tradition control.
I agree, summer time is a good time to go outside and enjoy some sun.
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