http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2005/01/02/the_generation_lap?pg=full

As admitted in class, I never played video games growing up, in fact until after I moved out of our house my family had one T.V with no cable, so I guess I’m behind the curve in this class.

Anyways I found this article very interesting, not only because it completely coincides with Koster’s chapters 1-3 where he talks about the psychology of games and how they force new ways of thinking, but more importantly the tangible benefits of playing video games.

The paragraphs where he discusses the advantage video game players have over an older generation makes complete sense to me. In the business world where million dollar transactions occur oftentimes in a de-humanized fashion I can see how gamers would have an advantage. Gamers are people who are comfortable competing, via internet media, against other people in a hands off manor. So this raises the question, are games valuable in that they teach us about competition and how to deal with success and failure?