Back to the Future

#38: Console Gaming
One advantage for us "oldies" who were young when the early video games came out was that we had a vision of the future. We may not have realized at the time how massive games would be years down the road. They've become a way of life! It gave us a chance early on to learn eye-hand skills that we could use with our children. The drawback of this is we were all telling ourselves that extended time spent at these games were bad for kids. If only we had let ourselves go at it and play them ourselves extensively--that would have been truly visionary.

The skills I learned were more keyboarding and small motor coordination skills that have come in handy with the nearly all-day use of the computer I perform today.

Wii is the perfect game for library use. It can be played on a big screen and allow multiple users to play at the same time. It promotes activity (incidentally, the antithesis of library use) so I'm all for it. Anything that creates exercise and fun at the same time can't be bad. Also, the games are all non-violent. Unless you get too competitive.