I Miss Playing Video Games.

Which non video games do you miss playing?

Ah a chance to say:“When I was a kid we didn't have all these fancy consoles and gadgets and phones you, we had to spend our time out side on bike and shit, making our own fun”That fun usually ended up in someone getting into trouble. Here's a list of my favourite childhood games.Board game: MonopolyAlthough this game can take hours and is pretty fun when everyone pays attention, the best part is when it descends into chaos.Outdoor game: Knock-a-door runThere is nothing better than watching people come to answer their door while you hide in the bushes giggling away. It was fun getting caught to so you could shout something cheeky back when they lose their temper.Outdoor game #2: Garden hoppingGreat game to get the neighbors chasing you, just a shame a snail could catch me, so I was in trouble on the dailyLast and not leastCome Down Stairs Without LaughingThis game is only good until you are about six years old. My mum used to give us silly names like Mr Stinky Socks, she would sit on a chair and ask us about thirty questions, each time we had to answer with our silly names.Mum: where do you come fromMe: Mr Stinky Soc AhahahahaMum: go back to the start it's your sisters go.We would win if answered every question without laughing.E/D

I quit playing video games. Is that good for me?

Playing video games is neither inherently good nor bad. It's hardly like doing drugs, smoking, eating high amounts of sugary foods or any number of other activities where there is a clear and negative effect to engaging in them.Just the act of quitting video games, by itself, is hardly a positive.So, if you want quitting video games to be 'good for you', ultimately, it's about figuring out what you're doing instead. You have to do things for the right reasons and figuring out what those reasons are is pretty the key to this question.If you're taking 40 hours a week you used to play video games and using it to be more socially active, improve yourself, volunteer or whatever else that’s productive or beneficial to your own well being, then it's probably a good thing, providing you didn't lose a lot of enjoyment from it (after all, enjoying your leisure time is also important to your well being).If you're taking the $60 a month you spend on games and instead spend it saving for a house or retirement or spend it on a gym membership, then again, quitting games may very well be a constructive action.However, if you're just taking the time and money and decide to simply start watching TV instead or buying more beer, then perhaps the effect is at best a wash. If you're doing that AND you're miserable for quitting your favorite hobby and you lost contact with all your friends (who were all gamers), then it's certainly a clear negative.

Childhood: Do you miss playing video games on T.V (the ones with the remote control while your mother fed you)?

As of now we cannot go back in time but we can surely recreate the conditions.Step 1. Get that video gameStep 2. Get your motherStep 3. Tell her you want her to make something for you.Step 4. Start playing.If things behave the way they are supposed to(like the sky is blue etc) The same feeling will be recreated.I do it all the time.!!

Do you miss the fun atmosphere of playing video games at a video arcade? They were all over the place in the '80s.

Totally and utterly! If (and I certainly don’t) believe in the concept of heaven, then I’d one day find myself walking into an amusement arcade, like the characters of ‘Ashes To Ashes’ walked into the pub, the ‘Railway Arms’ at the end of the series? Specifically, I would be walking in to one of the arcades in the seaside town I holidayed in during my youth!I absolutely adored those times and when things get tough, I find myself thinking of those times; I’m so lucky to have experienced them! Yeah, admittedly, the ‘package holiday’ was all the rage and my contemporaries were all being whisked off to Spain or Greece by their parents. I had to settle for a draughty caravan on the Welsh coast, but, most importantly, there were amusement arcades!Now, if you’d have visited one such arcade back then, you would have probably seen a lad going from one pinball machine to another, but always coming back to a pinball machine called ‘Alien’ as it was probably his favorites? Then he would have moved on to one of the penny, one armed fruit machines (bandits)? He would probably have to visit the ‘change booth’ several times in order to have a pound note changed into two tubes of fifty pennies each? Of course, he would be forever hoping for the elusive ‘gold coin’ that would be coughed out of such a fruit machine, which, when exchanged at the change booth, gave him another roll of fifty, one-pence pieces!You would then probably see him stand in front of one of the wildly inaccurate ‘shoot the black cat’ machines? Where for a penny, he could shoot at cutouts of black cats sitting on a fence! He would shoot at the cat on the far left and the cat on the far right would topple over! But the truth is that he loved the night time scenery, all under a Perspex dome. The gun, mounted on a post in front of the dome was a nickel plated ‘Gat Gun’ (remember those)?Then he would probably bet on one those ‘racing’ games whereby he would put a penny into either a red, green, white or orange lighted slot and hope that his car/horse would win? He preferred cars though!All the time, music would be playing over the speakers in the arcade; The Specials, Bananarama, Cyndi Lauper and a metallic smell would be all pervading?If I win the lottery (and I won’t because I don’t play) I would definitely make one wing of my house into an amusement arcade! Sadly, I wouldn’t be able to make the world outside one of Reagan, Thatcher, weird and wonderful fashions and just three channels on the television!