WHY GAMING HAS GAINED IMPORTANCE IN THE PAST DECADE???

Recently the world witnessed the international level gaming tournament WSVG (World Series of Video Games) with huge participant turnout. The event spanned over a space of 150,000 square feet of tournaments exhibition another attraction.Now THAT WAS SOMETHING!!!!

Gaming today has moved from being just a mere mode of fun (reserved only for the kids) to being a passion persuaded by people both young and old. A recent estimate tells us that the average gamer’s age today is between 25 to 30 years.

                                     

The gaming history dates back to those days when the galaxy was ‘visualized’ on a CRO screen and the space-ships were merely made of dots and pixels. Back then these gaming consoles stretched over…..Hold your breathe…..an entire residential flat…..Yeah I know that’s the exact size of the LAN gaming hub you visit with 20 other friends of yours to play CounterStrike or UT!!!

Now this is worth mention—The First Successful PC by IBM was IBM 5150 which was also a ‘GAMING CONSOLE’ of those days…These are its specifications

CPU: Intel 8088 at 4.77 MHz
Ram: 16k-640k

Now that’s a true CONSOLE!!! Hey Dudes I mean we should not poke fun at the OLD….Yes I know OLD is GOLD…but tell me in these days of processors with a speed of 3.0Ghz+ (compare that with IBM 5150—4.47Mhz )and minimum Ram 1GB(read IBM 5150—Max Ram—640 Kb) and you can surely say….

“Welcome to your life,
There’s no turning back!!!”

Speaking about the games,out of all possible categories the ones which click with the current gaming generation are:-

1) FPS (First Person Shooters) like CounterStrike,call of duty, Half Life 1,2 etc.

2) TPS(Third Person Shooters) like GTA—Vice city,GTA3,Liberty City Stories, Vice city stories,Mafia,Freedom Fighter,The Godfather,Scarface –The World Is Yours and so on.

3) Strategy Based Games like Rollercoaster 1,2 3,Rise of the nations etc.
4) Sports—FIFA,
5) Car Racing—NFS, Midtown Madness etc.
And many more…

Don’t know about the others, but as a kid, I was very much an admirer of the Rambo franchise or say the Terminator series. I am an imaginative person and was always a true fan of stories like that of SINBAD or ALLADIN and loved

Them especially on the movies screen. Be it the GI joes or the SUPERMAN or say SPIDERMAN and they were my true heroes…………cutback to now,…..all I have to do is just press a few buttons, insert a CD and start tapping the keyboard-mouse and let my imagination takeoff!!!

According to me the simple reason why gaming has gained significance is this—The World has finally got a medium wherein after the daily routine of work one can also be in the Army and the shoot the terrorists. One can easily be a gangster and command respect. One can join the SWAT and save the city. Anyone can easily become a superhero, a soldier, a bad guy at the same time…..or maybe if the time permits…..drive a car, fly a plane, drive a boat, maybe run your own city, your own nation or maybe the entire world….after all –

‘EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD!!!’

–By Anoop Sherlekar