Mr. Wright starts off with the quote, "The human imagination is an amazing thing." In that he is most absolutley correct. From our youngest, childhood memories, we can mostly recall an imaginary friend, or an invented game or place we would visit. I find it interesting how he describes games. He says, as we grow we play, and as we continue to grow we add rules and goals, and this is the point where a game develops. I guess I never sit to think how these basic ideas, such as games come about, but when I sit here and read this article it's neat to see that evolution described.
Our generation, and at this point in time we have a different set of games than any other age group. We are no longer simply playing cards, or your classic board game, but rather many different types of videogames. We have controllers and cords and discs that all connect to a TV to provide this interactive game. There are shelves of different options at stores all over creation, and when you purchase one you often don't already know how to play. We learn by this cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis. We dive head first and learn on the fly.
As video games have become so popular, and i will admit I am not a part of that hobby, but I see what Wright means when he points out how the older generations see it as such a bad thing. They are violent, addictive, and childish, but they are not the ones holding that controller and thinking through the game, and strategizing. He compares this to a movie theater. If you were simply watching the people watch the movie, without watching the movie, you would think it was so bad for causing people to become tired, or to binge eat on excessive amounts of junkfood, but you aren't in there experiencing the movie with your own senses.
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