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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 12:44:17 PM

First of all I want to tell everybody that live in San Ysidro CA. which is a city next to Mexico along the international border. I’m a computer tech who has clients on both sides of the border (US and Mexico) and I always wanted to know the following:

Why grown up, American adults like to play video games so much?

Some of my clients in Mexico have the latest PCs with the latest Video cards, mobos, HD's, etc you name it, . When I ask them if they like to play video games, they say that is for children only.
On the other hand, my American clients (note: for the purpose of this writing American can be any adult people who grew up in the US, of any racial background) most of them in their 30's ad 40's love to play video games.

Does any body have the answer?


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mousepotato   10-01-2001 at 01:19:33 PM
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If Mezcal was as good and as cheap here, as it is there, I might play less video games.

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ejsmith2   10-01-2001 at 01:48:09 PM
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Yeah, I know what you mean. It's the same reason why we have stock brokers and postal employees that try to set new records in the 'shooting spree' event.

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jmycal   10-01-2001 at 03:15:45 PM
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video games are ways to escape from the everyday world. plus where else can you go and take guns and shoot people, or speed through the streets at 200mph on a motorcycle hitting people and beating the crap out of other motorcyclists, and indulge our need for violence. the most important reason is of course, that it improves hand eye coordination

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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 03:58:21 PM
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video games have been proved to relieve stress - remeber that when you are caught at work.

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jmycal   10-01-2001 at 04:20:27 PM
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can no play games at work, don't have any.

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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 04:24:25 PM
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take some in then

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jmycal   10-01-2001 at 04:28:32 PM
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i wouldn' be employed very long if i did that.

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Yahiko81   10-01-2001 at 05:47:04 PM
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Just play them on you breaks.

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jollygrinch   10-01-2001 at 06:57:12 PM
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The dark and terrible truth is this: our parents were right. Our generation is lazy and good for nothing. Rather than learn real marketable skills, our generation has subconsciously used video games to create the entire modern pc industry. Without realizing it we trap ourselves in a vicious cycle of games vs. hardware that forces the hardware industry to produce new/faster components every six months, thus creating jobs for us all.

Or….
The simple fact that we are Americans, spoiled and have to work much less to put food on our tables makes us board out of our minds. And rather than do something productive with our time we play video games.

no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end, when we all disintegrate, it'll all happen again.

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Mavicator   10-01-2001 at 09:45:16 PM
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It's probably because most Mexicans 20 years ago couldn't afford technology. We (those of us around 30) grew up on games, and therefore can't give them up so easily!

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