Where do you game?

Being at a college where 90% of the students play video games daily, you see a lot of things.

One room may have several days old Carl's Junior bags of food with beer cans strewn throughout a sea of Maxim and gaming magazines,




another one may have the biggest HDTV you have ever seen, but realize to yours and my dismay that it is only being used for RockBand and the whole series of Planet Earth,















and another one may have the most random of group of people sitting on broken beds and chairs or on the stolen gas station rug all playing Mario Party 8's minigame 'Shake it Up'.

Where do you game?

...liquid_courage out...

Closet-Gamers

Hello everyone,

You may not know this, but there are literally millions of closet-gamers. You may be one. Do you play Solitare, Sudoku, Diner Dash, Bejeweled, or Tetris? Well, you are probably a closet-gamer. You play games during work, when you get home and check emails, and when your insomnia kicks in. You don't talk about games with friends or family because you are afraid you will be labeled. Don't worry though. The terms nerd, geek, or hacker are a thing of the past.

Casual gaming has the biggest amount of closet-gamers. If you go to www.newgrounds.com , http://www.miniclip.com, or http://www.pogo.com you are a casual-gamer. You love the simplicity of gaming, how it eliminates stress, increases your eye-hand coordination and fine-hand coordination, and the adrenaline that flows through you when you know you have the top score.

Casual gaming is only getting better. Everyday there are several new games published by common users. These common users make these games for free and for the people's pleasure. You'll see a lot of these on www.newgrounds.com.

So, get out there and get playing. Be open with it, you'll find that your disgruntled landlord is a gamer, that your grandmother is a gamer, and you yourself are a gamer.

...Marty out...