R U a GOOD game player?

Looking back into my childhood, I wasn't the one who is crazy about video games. One reason is that my mother wasn't good enough to give me such a expensive that one. So I used to play with my friends in the yard. For me~ COMPUTER GAMEs ?? It doesn't makes me feel excited. I mean just not for me, but OK you would. Do you like playing computer games?

Yes, I think there was a computer game I loved, STARCRAFT, that is a real big one. What do you think makes a good game? There should be lots of reasons, but I would mention the two important reasons, play and story. Here is what Rand Miller, co-creator of Myst and Riven, said about his new game :
"One of the reasons I think Myst was successful was that people are used to being entertained with stories. There're lots of ways to entertain, but the two primary ones are story—which is television and movies and books and all that—and the other is game play —blackjack and football and Parcheesi. There’re other ones, but those are two we are very familiar with. I think the mass market audience is more familiar with story. The first campfire the guys on the hunt come back with a story to tell--that is something anybody can partake in.”


Let us talk about Identification and Space. Have you imaged that you were the hero when you played a video game? You would've felt like that. Identification through action has a special kind of hold. Like playing a sport, it puts people into a highly focused, and highly charged state of mind. So Sherry Turkle thought video games as metaphysical machines ,as perfect mirrors, as drugs, as contests. What do you think makes boys like games much more than girls do around 1980s? in the other expression, what’s a boy’s space?
is it a place where boys can...
–enjoy lurid images?
–prove themselves with stunts?
–gain mastery?
–(re)produce hierarchies?
–vent aggressive feelings?/ like this...

Then, what's a Girl's space? It is a space of secrets and romance.
Some examples of that , the video game Tom lader, Rara Craft, inbodys everythings not just only video games itself, but also objectives who is gonna play the game. And the movie matrix, Neo, as well?

With grows of game industry, conversation between family is being stopped. Then what is the duty for us? Making good games which is developing for mental training? Then nobody would feel interested with that game. Confusing things. Anyways, Media makes people, too.
Thanks for the good lecture.^^