Help for games - why do people play?

WHY DO PEOPLE PLAY?
                 BECAUSE THEY JUST WANT TO LIVE!


        The history of gaming goes back to the deep, dark
past. Since ancient times, man has not been satisfied with what he has been given.
him with opportunities.  With the habit inherent in the species "homo sapiens"
To make dreams come true, you had to do something. Consistently
people flew into the air (often once and for the rest of their lives), tried
sink for research purposes in the depths of the ocean and breathe in
deep space. Small things often happened to those who were curious,
but deadly incidents, and I couldn’t even bring them back to life
posthumously awarded the title of hero. No wonder it's big
part of the people preferred not to risk their most precious skin, but
replenish much-needed adrenaline reserves with the help of banal
observing desperate daredevils. Really, why?
climb somewhere high mountains, or run on hard
field, when you can just watch all this, hugging one
hand an obedient individual of the opposite sex, and with the help of the other
sip from a container with national low-alcohol
drink.

        This is how the first books and oral ballads appeared, pathetically
telling about the social life of heroes saving princesses in batches
in his free time from working as a swineherd. Exactly from those times
originates the term "fiction", which then grew intomore
wide-ranging "hack".   Naturally, few
was satisfied with such a formulation of the question, and in order to
fully imagine the action based on “stories at a rest stop” or
a freshly printed book needed at least a living
listener's imagination.  There were often tensions with this.
Therefore, in order not to strain too much, people came up with the theater - and now
you could just watch the stories without much effort
brain convolutions, and sometimes pleasantly snoring. Time passed and,
it is quite natural that the art of pantonyms began slowly
die off - it was necessary to influence not only vision, but also
hearing
        Next, humanity secretly tried to realize more
One of my old feelings is stinginess.  Really, well
think for yourself - how much money it costs to maintain an entire theater -
and you can’t put a bunch of dangerous special effects into every performance
(and the viewer was picky, he had acute feelings
give it).   So, there was a smart man who decided that
be sure to drag the train with rails onto the stage,
in order to arrange his arrival there.  So it appeared and blossomed
lush color CINEMA - undoubtedly the greatest of the arts in which
The term "hackwork" applies. Fast enough "live pictures"
acquired color, voice, and recently acquired smell, loading with this
almost completelyall the feelings of a simple man in the street. Exactly
cinema eventually overtook books in terms of impact on
the simplest organism of the consumer - were fully involved
all feelings: fear, disgust, sexual attraction coupled with
attraction, craving for the unknown, unrealized romance. But
in this whole range of films, most of them idealizing
the image of a twisted hero, the main thing was missing - feelings
dependence of the hero on the viewer.  It's nice to know that you
decide whether the beautiful heroine will die peacefully, or her
leave to drag out a miserable existence. Cinema will not allow this
could, which caused a storm of responses - remember the tons of letters,
came to the authors of the series after being successfully eaten by the ownerless
the bear of the main interfering person. The viewer demanded a return
the unfortunate hero, spitting on his Second Hand category, and
threatened that if he were the most, most important, he would write
If only the whole scenario would have been completely different, but this bitch would have just
drowned with a water pistol.
        This is where we come to the most important and basic part
our story.  appeared on the entertainment scene
new monster - a modern interpretation of the ugly duckling in
torn jeans, grown into a sedate swan in a tailcoat and
diamonds. Let's remember the attitude of people towards computer games for about 7 years
back - which onesthere were no predictions there. Subsequent
primitivism with degradation to a monkey staring at a computer.
Evil radiation that makes idiots out of teenage children
social category. Chronic absence of reasonable, kind,
eternal, and the presence of bloody, evil and compressed into hard
period of time. It was predicted that the genre would completely decline to
primitive shooters, and electronic players to the nearest
a receiver for ownerless madmen.
        Time passed without sparing anyone: neither skeptics nor
materialists.  The generation that grew up on Diggers, Froggers and
Match 3 has become a fully fledged member of society. Cases
general impotence, as well as the “victims” sitting in the passages
"Computer irradiation" is not observed. General level of players
has undoubtedly increased, and the games themselves are entertainment at work (for now
the boss turned away) turned into a full-fledged subject
home rest and everyday life. Families have already become familiar, where the husband
my wife and I resolve family problems not only in bed, but also
by fighting against each other on the computer (or -rah, even
This is now hard to surprise).  Through games, children develop
visual memory, musical ear.  In the archives of Moscow
company "NIKITA", which develops educational games, carefully
letters are kept from parents whose children, thanks to games, were able to
overcome problemsnormal development.
        And the games are far from being the same “primitive”
shooting-sketchy little men."  Literally two years ago
For the first time in the computer industry, the weighty phrase "full
motion video" meaning "full motion video".  Real
films and actors came to life on computer monitors, completely
equating them to the already slightly boring wooden
TV box.  Christopher Walken, Bugress Mereditt, Tia Curry, Mark
Hemil is no longer just a movie star, but also a game star. Oh
the super-best-selling film "Mortal Kombat", based on
computer game, it’s not even worth mentioning anymore.
        Virtual worlds, heroes subject to you and only you,
unusual roles (well, it’s hard to fully feel yourself in the role
Demiurge - the ruler of hell and heaven? And in the role of the head of the star
colonies of the Earth Empire?). Is it worth talking about those people who
fulfilled your dream of flying into the sky on a super modern
combat helicopter, or win a tournament in Eastern
martial arts, or go into outer space, or carry out
grandiose investigation, leading to ice-free waters of the Seine
half of the Parisian mafia-state clan.  Worlds
computer games are complex, diverse, but the most important thing in it
that this whole world is oriented only for you. Real
real world, shortwill become your personal paradise if
you will show yourself as a hero, albeit with a keyboard and not a sword
at the ready.
        Plug and Play!..