Angela Kays

SLM - 521- Elective # 3

Games online

6/02/03

 

 

            I was ready to go when I chose to work on this elective.  Little did I know how much work, rather than fun, this would be.  I started off on http://games.yahoo.com/ The first time that I tried to connect I was unable to complete the registration.  So I moved onto the next link which was (http://www.mpogd.com/games/board/index.asp) This site was too confusing and seemed like a lot of steps to register and begin.  I also noted that many of the games were ones that I had never heard of before.  This was a great deterrent to my playing.

 

            I moved on next to (http://www.vogclub.com/) Here I was able to register and started to play some games.  I didn’t understand and didn’t like the games so I continued on.  I had heard from someone to try (www.wheeloffortune.com) so I decided to give that a try. Unfortunately I had problems downloading the shockwave system.  At this time I was getting very frustrated but decided to try one more place.  Using a search engine I found the site, (www.itsyourturn.com).  I registered and started looking for a game to play.  Again the games where either to confusing or too hard to play.  But the major problem was the time that I wasted waiting for another opponent to join the game.  I decided to stop searching and to try again the next day

 

            The next day I was much more productive.  I retried (http://games.yahoo.com) and was able to join and download the software needed to play.  I began by playing a card game, hearts.  This site was much faster at getting opponents to join.  I played 3 games of hearts and was not bad. I won 2 out of the 3 games.  I decided to try another game and tried a game called Noah’s Ark.  This game has you matching 2 animals and trying to get them in the ark before the flood takes over.  I loved it.  I played this game so long that I had to quit because my arm was going numb.  The adrenaline that was running through my body in order to create pairs of animals before the water took over was amazing!

 

            Before signing off of (http://games.yahoo.com) I decided to try my hand at one more game.  I choose to play Bingo.  I was not impressed.  The game was so slow.  It took 10 seconds each time for a new ball to come up.  This was definitely not fast paced enough for me.  I decided to come back another time and retry my hand at Noah’s Ark.

 

            After completing this activity I started wondering what type of people have so much time to play on the computer.  Don’t they have lives, husbands, children, and jobs?  Is life so boring for some people that their only communication with another person is through Internet gaming?  I see Internet gaming as an addition and hopefully something that can be controlled and does not become out of hand for some people. I am glad that my first experience with online gaming did not go so well.  I will not be an easy candidate for this addiction.