Like any
form of art or
entertainment, TV runs the gamut from the horrendous to the sublime, and with only a
little initial channel - surfing in the name
of research, you can learn to enjoy the medium guilt - free and eventually advance to using your former nemesis for the betterment
of your children.
If Phil Spencer and team genuinely want to «showcase the passion, creativity and potential behind the fastest - growing
form of entertainment in the world» [4] they should listen a
little less to their «core» market and focus on fostering the kind
of creativity likely to realize that potential.
Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years
of my life, gaming served as a diverse means
of escape for me away from the trappings
of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end
of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some
of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one
of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many
of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects
of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark
of an impactful
form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events
of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort
of impact that the emotional depth
of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world
of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury
of divorcing ourselves
of our current reality to assume that
of a world
of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a
little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day
Billed as a «revolutionary screen
entertainment package,» The Chronicles
of Jaruu Tenk is a neat and quite unique simulation that is part «life simulation» a la
Little Computer People (or more recently, Creatures), part screensaver, and part free -
form exploration game.
In an interview with Salon, Dr. Kyle Pruett explained that dads generally engage in activities with kids that moms do not, including: «roughhousing and other physical activity; an interest in having children encounter the world outside
of the mother's enclosure, not in spite
of it but in addition to it; the use
of play as a
form of teaching as well as
entertainment; and a willingness to allow frustration to build a
little bit more than a lot
of mothers are comfortable with, in order to teach some life lessons.»