McLuhan's Wake

Video Games:

1.Video Games are an interactive visual medium, medium enhances and engages the person into other state of mind of viral reality. Videos games are intended to function as entertainment. Videos games places you in situations and settings that you might never go though in reality. Video games indent to project yourself in virtual world where you relate to the character in an interactive setting making a personal connection with you and the character in which is an extension of the human mind. In other senses as you interact more with video games i would say that you start thinking in different sense, interactions can enhance brain function and develop strategic thinking. When playing a first person shooter video game i learned that it amplifies the hand and eye coordination by being very persistent in the first person shooter game. It helped me with accuracy with sport games in real life. Video games extend the individual in a virtual identity.In day of age can play with others online, making it easy to connect to other with the same relationship. Organizing virtual groups and society though out this these actions.


2. To my knowledge videos games do not have a pre-exciting medium that is obsolesce in this time. Video games i would say replaced board games, people still buy them yet with video games it more interactive and you can relate. Also for example the game chess the new generation plays it online yet the old play in park and coffee shops. Yet the new generation play chess traditionally, the player who are more advanced are forced to play online for the fact that other great players are around the world. To me i feel like i love video games to much to see all or any of the renders that are unnecessary. Videos Games interiorly bypass or procedures, for example a first person shooter, in real life you would have to buy a gun, bullets and then shot someone. In a video game you press start and your character is ready to kill in the virtual world. Board games are still around yet i would say are not as popular then video games, i would say they are for family and large social groups.


3. Video games  retrieve interactive play from board games. Now video games can be played with many live players at once. Yet not instead of in you living room they can be around the world. Video games revive i would say interactive entertainment aspect from prehistoric, ancient, medieval or early modern world. 


4. Video games when pushed to the extreme is can get really dangerous for me at least. It can get really addictive and sometimes I start to love to game so much thats all i want to do, school doesn't seem important, don't want to eat meals, etc. I would say addictive is one of effects that medium never wanted and thats why in most games it the beginning of the introduction they alway say play in moderation. I know only one big contradiction in video games and that is video games effect kids when they play mature games about killing. They state that it influence kids to shot people. Others are that they make you lazy and can become over weight. Video games effect a person in a great deal. Lets say i am a shy kid and i don't like socializing, well i start playing video games where i can stay to myself, as the years go on i become a very unsociable person where is hard for me to interactive with other in just conversation.