Reality Amuck™

Here at Casa de Tovias we currently have the X-Box 360. Before that we had a couple Playstation 2′s and I’m not really sure what was before that. When I met my beautiful comic book reading, sci-fi watching, video game playing wife, I was playing on a Nintendo 64 with 2 games. Super Mario 64 still haunts me to this day because I never found all 120 Power Stars (I was so close damn it). Before that the only game system I routinely played on was an Atari 2600. I ruled Pac Man on the 2600.

I guess I’ve never been a big follower of the console games. I’ve generally limited my gameplay to the PC variety. That said I’ve heard so much about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the X-Box 360, I’m ready to drop the cash for it soon. I generally hear about it from my next door neighbor when I see him at the bus stop every morning looking like he has been up all night. He looks that way because he has been up all night, playing Modern Warfare 2.

For several years my wife and I were most like to be found in front of the PC playing EverQuest (then City of Heroes, then World of Warcraft, etc.) and in each of those communities I have heard stories of marathon play sessions where one loses all sense of time and place. Hell, the main reason our older three kids can cook so well by themselves is our heavy raid schedules back then.  So now that I hear similar stories from the console world I don’t feel quite so bad.

I’m well aware of the addictive nature of some of these games and I know going into them that I have a personality that is primed to jump headlong into that addiction but each time I tell myself it will be different this time. But of course it never is. So I’m looking forward to picking up a copy of CoD:MW2 and not seeing the light of day (or the outside of my house) for a few weeks. Who knows, I may even keep the wife off the X-Box long enough for her to move on from Dragon Age and start up in the FPS world.