Currents Magazine Winter 2015
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GamInG<br />
the<br />
Old-<br />
Fashioned<br />
Way<br />
BY CHRISTOPHER CHEN<br />
ART BY GARRISON WRIGHT<br />
There are at least four decades worth of people who<br />
were practically raised on video games, since video<br />
games were popularized in the 1970s. For me, I remember<br />
a time when video games were just something<br />
that I talked about with friends on the playground.<br />
Video games in general were considered<br />
more of a childish past time than a serious medium.<br />
My parents did at one point or another ask me when<br />
my interest in video games would stop. I didn’t know<br />
back then to be honest, but I also had a feeling that<br />
my interest in video games would wane with time.<br />
As a child, I always viewed adulthood as being a sudden<br />
transition. I figured I would find video games and<br />
cartoons boring from the moment I became an adult.<br />
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