According to MSNBC, the average computer gamer is 35 years old, fat, and depressed. Well, I turned 46 years old yesterday, so I am way above average in at least one respect. Plus, I don’t live in my parents’ basement and I have had sex with a real, live woman (and have the offspring to prove it). Yep, WAAAY above average. Unlike this guy:
Or poor Dilbert:
Truth be told, I don’t play games on my computer per se except for my unending obsession with Civ IV. Most of the time when I want to play a quick electronic game, I play something on my iPod Touch. Apple, which never really had any luck in the past making a gaming platform with their hardware, totally hit it out of the park with the iPhone line as a serious competitor in the handheld arena. The huge popularity of the iPod Touch last Christmas was in no small part due to parents buying it for kids, who promptly turned around and downloaded a veritable shitload of games from the iTunes store. I have 8-10 different games on mine that I regularly use to entertain myself in waiting rooms, food courts, during commercials, and other similar short windows of down time.
Gear Patrol.com, which is one of those “guy” websites that keeps us manly men up to date on what manly men should be doing when being extremely masculine, last week ran a Top 10 list of iPhone games, which was really like a Top 20 list because they included a runner-up in every category. I only have two of them, but I am a notorious metrosexual, and not nearly manly enough to pack all twenty. Still, there are a few on that list that I will probably download, although you might be surprised that I don’t plan to add “Civilization Revolutions”. Some other iPhone losers I know have badmouthed the performance of the game pretty hard, enough to make me feel like I’d rather not bother.
Get your fingers off your forehead already, you look foolish.
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*grin* No mocking here, I play RPGs on my iPod.