ADHD Video Games

What ever happened to the good old days when I could sit in front of the TV all day long and just play video games???  It's weird but I find myself not being able to focus or stay interested in one game for more than a day or a few days at most.  

Most recently I bought Streeth Fighter IV, and Killzone 2.  Both great games, but I have played those games about 2 days at most ... I don't know why???

Back in the day on 90th street, I remember the days when I would sit with my cousins and play video games all day long!  The all too wonderful Super Mario, Contra, Gradius, actually it even goes further back then that.  All that time spent on playing games with Ody on the Atari 2600 like Asteroids, Baseball, Pacman, King Solomon's Mine, Pit Fall, Pole Position and there were so many more games that I can't remember.  One game I can't remember the name of is where you're in a mall, and you're a cop chasing the prisoner jumping over shopping carts, going up the escalators and all that good stuff ... I think it was calle Keystone Cops???

Those were the days when we would spend hours and hours playing these games, for me it was even days at a time!  I remember I'd wake up and the first thing I would do is turn on my Sega Master System ... yes I always had Sega, from the Sega Master System to the Sega Genesis.  We would sit there watching each other play and rooting each other to win so we can see what else happens in the game and story.

But that's all in the past now, well for the meantime at least.  Maybe it's the games that I'm playing?  Little Big Planet was a game that kept me interested for a while, at least a month.  Metal Gear Solid 4 ... now that was a game that I couldn't stop playing, that brought me back to the days when I would play for hours on end until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore, that game was one that I played for soooooooo long.  

So maybe it is the games that I'm playing which dictate how interested I am.  Maybe the FPS games on the PS3 don't keep me entertained that much anymore, but I need more of that adventure type game where there's a good story or you have to save the mushroom princess.  Maybe I'm just getting old???  Nooo I can't say that, I'm never too old to play video games!  

Oh well, I guess I'll try going back to playing MGS4 and Little Big Planet since they were the ones to keep me interested for a while.

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Comments

[Ody]

MGS series FTW! By the way, it was Keystone Capers. 2 days ago, I was looking through old CDR discs and found one disc I burned that has an emulator. I ran it...and found literally HUNDREDS of Atari, Sega, Genesis, Nintendo games! I think there were other games from other consoles, but I spent hours playing some of my favorites like the Double Dragon series, Kung Fu, Gradius, and the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....hehehe.

And you can't forget the hours we spent on the original sports games talking trash to Ai Ai on the old school football games starting with Tecmo Bowl, evolving to Joe Montana Football, which back then we thought had the most awesome graphics...hehehe. With basketball, it was Double Dribble against Michael and John, evolving into Lakers vs. Celtics!

[MONStar]

Oh wow! Crazy memories are flooding back now :) and those nights playing Ai Ai with the one play touchdown plays for $1 ... classic!

I should have added this to the Cousin See Cousin Do post (actually I will), that you got me started on MGS!

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