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Video Games are quickly growing in acceptability.

Video Games are the new Great Escape from every day doldrums!

This may not reflect so much for Older Adults but, I have literally grown up, raised on just as much video games as I have with T.V.

What is interesting to me is that for me, my nostalgia is something I can play ( In other words eary Nintendo or Sega games).

Any thoughts on Video Games? Hopefully nobody believes that Video Games make kids violent. Well, Any Thoughts? ;D
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I isolated some of your statements to comment on them.

I thought video games were always acceptable! ;D

I agree that they are a great form of escapism.

I too grew-up a video game fan.

I too can play games which throw me back into good, simpler times. Gaming nostalgia, who would have thought? ;)

As far as video games making kids violent, I don't believe that at all. I think it's all about parenting and how the children are raised. But that's a whole other topic.

Besides, nowadays most games have "parental control" settings, which can be set to never display blood, death or violence. Well, at least in the PC form anyway. 8)

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I just bought a game called "Stronghold".  It is an RTS game where you can build your own Castle.  The real fun is when you play the campaigns, and fight computer characters such as "The Snake", "The Rat" and "The Pig".  It was well worth the $30, and to top it off, it included the sequel: "Stronghold Crusaders".  
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There was an earlier game by this name that was produced by TSR (the Dungeons and Dragons people). You basically built a stronghold with a variety of character types and had to defend it against various monsters etc. It's not related to the newer game. I actually still play it from time to time, but Age of Empires and similar games are much better.

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Video Games are quickly growing in acceptability. Even G.W. Bush plays a mean Free Cell on his computer. Video Games for me are literally my main form of Entertainment. Video Games are the new Great Escape from every day doldrums!
This may not reflect so much for Older Adults but, I have literally grown up, raised on just as much video games as I have with T.V.
I have a Nintendo Gamecube, and boy do I enjoy it. I have owned every Nintendo System and I think I am who I am today because of this. What is interesting to me is that for me, my nostalgia is something I can play ( In other words eary Nintendo or Sega games).
There is a buttload of Great games to be coming out starting this week!

Any thoughts on Video Games? Hopefully nobody believes that Video Games make kids violent. Well, Any Thoughts? ;D
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Ive grown up with video games too, I have almost every system out there. And I enjoy every one.

Anybody that thinks games make kids violent is an idiot.

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Current best games:

Warcraft 3
Counterstrike

thats about all I like...
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Dude, I play war3 as well what's your bnet name?

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Dude, I play war3 as well what's your bnet name?
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MFLORIO45...but I havent went on in a long time due to a busted CD rom drive in my computer.

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PS2s are fab because you can play both PS2 and PS1 format games, play audio CDs and watch DVDs on them.
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That was the main reason I purchased a PS2.  I have so many PS1 games that I didn't want to have to throw away.  They were smart to develop a new game console that is still compatible with the older games.

I don't play games as often as I used to but my daughter sure does.  I like platform games the most, some shooters but not very many.  I loved all the Tomb Raider games---those I was addicted to since PS1.  The more colorful the game the better for me.

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Everytime I would try to play one of those games, my brother would get mad because I keep losing and he would end up playing the game instead.  :-/
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Your brother sounds like me.