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I am not a gamer! sam
posted by
sam444
on October 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM
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They have a game called Scramble that I played a lot last year while in school. Now that I am working full time I don't have the time to play like I did before.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM
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vogue
Judging from the previous comments, I think video games as a whole define a generational gap. Those who didn't come of age with video games have difficulty getting involved or even understanding the hobby.
I'm not on Facebook or any other social networking sites, but I am a gamer. Over the years I've owned a number of video gaming consoles and a variety of games. For the past several years I've played City of Heroes, a mass player online game based on the comic book superhero genre. I'm growing tired of it and will soon switch to Dungeons and Dragons, another mass player online game based on the role-playing game. My younger brother has a Playstation III and we play a number of sports-based games, notably EA Sports basketball, officially sanctioned by the NBA. Basically, video games have always been a part of my life and I don't see it changing in the forseeable future.
posted by
Talion_
on October 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM
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I used to play Literati now and then but haven't for a long time. It's a lot like Scrabble and I've always enjoyed word games.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM
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Vogue
Like you, I wonder where people find the time for these things! The only games I have ever played online (and in 'real' life, lol) are chess and poker - chess for fun, poker for money...But even they're too time-consuming. I have spent many a night over a chessboard, suffering the consequences the next day...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM
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I think games and puzzles are good exercise for the mind.
However, I mostly stick to the spider solitaire and other games on Windows. I like mah jhong as a matching and memory game, but the version I have tends to mess up the monkey works for other programs, so I had to take it off my computer.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM
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I'm not at all and would hate for my email to get loaded up with all the
crap that people from Facebook generate. Mr. Ariala gets tons of those emails and I'm constantly thinking I did the right thing in NOT joining Facebook and quitting Twitter.
posted by
Ariala
on October 12, 2009 at 9:58 AM
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I also have no interest in the online games on FB
as I had no interest in them when they were just on MySpace. I have sort of occasionally kept up on the "environmental" whatever they are on Facebook, with their garden and pond, because they allegedly contribute to buying land to preserve. I guess there is some advertising revenue in there that is used for that purpose. Mostly, I don't have time for them and they certainly not what I would call fun or "a game".
As for the others, for which I get umpteen invitations or notifications, I find the "Mafia" games the most offensive. Perhaps I am unlike the rest of my own and succeeding generations, but I found "The Godfather" more "anti" than "hero" and still remember the Mafia's reign of terror in New York. I have no nostalgia for these families of thugs nor for their tactics, which these games memorialize.
Perhaps, if I had the time, I might consider an online game of chess if it was rated by the United States Chess Federation. If memory serves me correctly, I haven't played a USCF-rated game since I was living in DC and playing at the Cosmopolitan Club.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on October 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM
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the actual games that they play like the farm land, mafia, and sority I havent figured them out, but I like to play solitare, and bejewelled and word path. To me the games are too confusing, I know my son plays them. It seems however some people are there all the time, plus work and go to school.
posted by
Lanetay
on October 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM
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Re: Noway darling I don't have a face book page. Don't have time
Good to see that I have company in the "no interest in online games" department.
posted by
vogue
on October 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM
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Noway darling I don't have a face book page. Don't have time
blogit my home my Wiley my writing, reading books, I am so busy I don't think about wasting time on things like games.
posted by
Kabu
on October 11, 2009 at 10:15 PM
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I always find time to play what the English call draughts and the Americans call chequers. Apart from that no. However one of these days perhaps I'll find the time to start playing chess on line. Have a nice day Vogue.
posted by
elinjo
on October 11, 2009 at 10:11 PM
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