Video Games

The funny thing is that games really do effect kids. For a whole week and a half, I've been playing a driving game. An old, 8-bit driving game with a joystick. Pole-Position. The best game I have ever played in a long time. I started spending every spare period at school playing this game. After a while, I became really good at it. Really good.

When playing, you have to rotate the joystick to turn the car, and that is how you steer. It was soon after a week of playing the game that I noticed myself twisting my phone while my mom was driving in order to get out of the way from the cars. Even though this happened, I still kept playing.

Then, after a week and a half of my spare time spent playing Pole-Position, I was walking down the street, and I noticed my hand twisting every time someone walked passed me while I was walking. I was steering myself using an invisible joystick.

The sad part of all this, is that I will not stop playing. The little side effect of me twisting my arm and steering my moms car with my phone is so worth the little crappy graphics driving game.