Am I the only one who has still been
looking for one of those ring toss water games that were incredibly ubiquitous
in parks and carnivals after all these years? I can assure that most of you, as
well, were able to spend even hours trying to solve this dreadfully knotty duty—passing
a horde of diminutive colourful rings through spidery see-through pointy sticks
is not such a piece of cake! However, this is not the end of the story; au contraire, this is just the beginning;
the dawning of a new era of gamers that will explore and live the games as far
as no one has tried before.
Ring
toss games were just the foundation of a broad collection of what now is the prime
trend not only among the faultily unfashionable nerds, but also those who just do not have the nerve to acknowledge
their inner geek. Later on, bricks succeeded rings; why spending a whole
afternoon putting rings on a stick when you can enjoy about ten thousand games
with lovely brick graphics in one portable device? At least, that is what many
of us thought until the first Game Boy’s
showed up.
In
our time we see more “sophisticated” versions of the games we used to play as
children, such as “Super Mario Bros.,” “Bomberman,” “Sonic...” However, game industry has gone down a little
bit; it is just a matter of appearance nowadays... Gamers look for better
graphics and wireless controls; but real gamers stick to the good old pixelled “Atari”
and “SNES”. Games are more than being able to see the buttocks of a princess.
