My Video Game Life

Eric Ibarra

Professor Reyes

English 100

25 Jan 2016

My Video Game Life

            Every since I could remember I’ve always been playing video games. I’ve played games on the old Nintendo 64 to the new consoles and computers games. I got a lot of hand me down games but I didn’t care as long as there were fun to play. When I was a kid, maybe around 9 years old, my brother gave me some of his old computer CD’s. Some of  them were games like plane simulator, Oregon Trail and some learning games. My favorite game was a math learning that taught how to do algebra and geometry in a fun manner. I would play that game for hours and hours not realizing that I was how much I was learning from it. That game helped me so much that even now I am good at math and I never get below an A in class.

            Another game I would play a lot was Pokémon Red Version. I played this game a lot because it was on the Game boy and I could take it where ever I went. This game was so fun that it made me want to watch the Pokémon anime series. Playing the game while watching the anime was something I did a lot. I loved to pretend that I was Ash Ketchum and that I wanted to “catch them all”. This game made me want to try and play other games that were based off of anime like the Naruto and Dragon Ball Z fighting games.

            I have played almost every genre of video games and I figured out that my favorite genre of video game is strategy. I learned this in middle school when played games on my GameCube. I would rent games from blockbuster to try all the games to see which ones I liked and the one I loved the most at the time was a game called Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It was a turn based strategy game where you fought with solders that had different classes and weapons. The weapons had strengths and weaknesses so I had to strategize how you would use your solders to fight. This game showed me how fun strategy games and made me want to play more. I played all kinds of strategy games, even chess on the computer, they allowed me to put my knowledge to the test and figure out the best method to win the game. To this day I still love playing turn-based strategy games and working my mind to beat the game.

            When I got into high school my parents bought me an Xbox 360 for my birthday. The first game I got for it was Call of duty: Modern Warfare 2 which was a shooter game based on war. Though this wasn’t my first shooter game that I played it was the first game I could play online with other people. See I was always shy when I was around people and didn’t like to talk to people face to face when I was growing up. So playing this game online and have the ability to talk to people but not having to see them helped me. After playing it for a long time I got better at talking to people face to face and though I am still a little shy it is not as bad as it used to be.

            Toward the end of my high school years my sisters handed me down their computer and that was the start of my gaming life on the computer. I have played many game on the computer since getting it but the one that I like the most and still play to this day is game called League of Legends. It is a M.O.B.A., which means multiplayer online battle arena, that has all kinds of characters to play from and you battle in teams of 5 vs. 5. Though in this game you talk to people with your voice you can talk to them by typing. I have befriended people that are from a different state or country playing this game. It has also help me improve my reaction time and think on the spot.