Monday, April 13, 2009

Games Teenagers Play Nowadays ; We can't go Back



Last Friday, being Good Friday, my elder son Noel invited 6 of his classmates to our house for lunch and some games.Nothing unusual about that, except that their games consisted of sitting around the dining table and playing a multiplayer online game very popular with the teenagers nowadays called World of Warcraft.They stayed for lunch and played for up to 6 hours at a stretch. This is the trend nowadays for online gaming is the accepted activity amongst practically all young men.

This contrasts with what I did as a teenager 30 odd years ago - swimming,club swimming competitions,playing table tennis,catching spiders,fighting these same spiders,karate practice - which I dreaded then and of course flying kites.

It was so different in those simpler and carefree days. No PC, No MSN, No Twitter, No Handphone, No Facebook, No connectivity.

I realise we can't go back to those days ever.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mark i would like to say it is not world of warcraft it is DOTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NoelIsSuperAwesomeAtDotaHeShouldBeInTheWCGAndOwnAllOfThemHaHAAHAHAHAHeRocks/ said...

HAHAHAHA NOEL IS A SUPER AWESOME WARCRAFT PLAYER. HE OWNS IN DOTA AND HE IS A UBER PRO. U SHOULD BE PROUD OF HIS GAMING SKILLS . I REALLY ADMIRE HIS AWESOME-NESS IN GAMING AND HE SERIOUSLY HAS THE TALENT TO BE IN THE WCG GAMES AND REPRESENT SINGAPORE. HE IS REALLY COOL :). LOOK AT THE INTENSITY AND DETERMINATION ON HIS FACE AS HE DESTROYS ALL HIS ENEMIES WITH HIS AWESOME COOL RAZOR MOUSE. THE SKILLS HE DISPLAYS ARE UNPARALLELLED AND SO FAR HE IS UNDEFEATED WITH A 17-0 STREAK. HE IS SUPER PRO. HE IS SO PRO I COULD WRITE A ONE MILLION WORD ESSAY ON HIS IMBANES.

NoelThePro said...

HAHAHA i owned everyone with my imbaness. my dota is too good, i even owned CY the pro, which is like impossible.i even owned JL and Carbon TetraChloride/Potassium Bisulfite/ZY i am just too good. the name NOEL shall be heard as a DOTA legend FOREVER!!!