To find out why I can’t play a video game?(1)

These days, because of learning this paper I recall the fate that I experience with video games from child to adult. So I want to simply summarize it in this post. Firstly, I need to state that I do not like playing video games very much, the amount of the video games I engaged are probably less than ten. Then I am going to talk about the video game experience I have and analyze the reasons for this particular experience.

Although the development of video games in China is a little slower than Western countries, in Beijing’s shopping mall it is very easy to find the video game section when I was a child. However the memories of these are lacked in my head. If I look back from today I find some possible reasons for this situation. First of all, no one in my family play video games and I was influenced by family environment very much. Secondly, the price of video games is not very cheap at that time, and the economic condition of my family is not very good, so my parents were unable to buy me any games to play. Thirdly, because I am a girl and in people’s notion that girls should play dolls or soft toys, so parents did not want me to play video games which are about killing and shooting. Therefore my impression of video games is killing and shooting as well. Until today, this paper helps me to find out that some games in fact have incredible high artistic quality. Killing, shooting and playing are definitely not the key point in these games. In general, my parents did not worry about the negative effect of video games in my childhood.

Later, about ten years ago, computer started to be popularized in China. In my fourth year at primary school, my school offered computer science class. In class we learned how to operate a computer so the games I first met are Mine Sweeper and Card games which are self-contained in Windows 2000 system. Due to the Windows provided the introduction and guide of these two games so I found that playing them was easy and fun. But maybe in gamers’ eyes these two simple PC console game cannot count into real video games. I remember that I played Mine Sweeper and Card only in the computer class. And about the PSP that was popular at school in that period, I only saw someone play it, but I did not play it. Actually I never touch any handheld game console until now. Maybe because I do not have any interests on video games, I do not even have the curiosity to borrow and try it.

TBC....

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JIWEI LI