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_refugee_  ·  3662 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you think of video games?

I was not allowed to play video games growing up. They would make us "violent."

Once, my aunt gave the three of us a Sega. My mom hid it for two weeks and then got rid of it.

Nowadays, as a result, I don't game much. I don't own any consoles besides a beat laptop that could barely run anything. I greatly enjoy arcade games especially FPS like Area 51. I also like Tetris and Pac-Man.

Uhm, in my teenage years, we were allowed to play Doom. Original Doom. I cheat-coded my way through that shit and enjoyed myself. But beyond that I have practically no familiarity and at this point in my life little interest.

I've played Smash, etc, at parties and video game club meetings in college, it's fun, it's cool, but it never was a way for me to spend my time so now I don't generally consider it in my day-to-day. Lord knows I don't need another expensive hobby to keep me away from writing, natch.