Oct 15 2008
Is there an age limit for Wiis?
The other day I was looking at my website and I saw something about Wiis and if they were age appropriate. I figured that my blogging community deserved to have the topic addressed.
For those of you who don’t know what a Wii is, it is a small rectangular box that you can put game on disc into it. For example, you can golf, play tennis, baseball, bowl, hunt, what ever they make for the Wii.
The Wii remote is how you can control everything, but it is not like a gameboy. A gameboy is controlled by your fingers much like a hand held video game. Wiis, on the other hand, use remotes that look a bit like TV remotes. They are slim, rectangular and you have to move around to work them. In order to bowl, you hold the remote like a bowling ball, but you don’t let go of the remote when you would normally let go of the ball.
Is there an age when you are too young to play a Wii or too old? Now, I can understand the 90 or 2 year old, but I’m talking about the 6 or 60 year old when you are capable. A six year old knows how to throw a ball with a Wii and a 6o year old, consider the benfits of having a bowling game in your living room! You don’t have to drive down to the bowling alley and pay for many games. There’s always baseball. You don’t have to go to New York to play in a huge stadium.
For your game boy and game boy advances, the most you get out of them is sore fingers and faster reflexes. But with a Wii, you have to move around. It’s not for the couch potato. The downsides are that you don’t get as much exercise as if you were to do the real thing. You are always running up the electricity bill. Also you can get your mom mad at you for always being on a video game.
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The thing that disturbs me about video games is the isolation. I don’t think it’s a problem with you because you are outgoing, but hours spent playing video games by yourself mean time that you’re not interacting with other people, and some kids, and adults too, don’t develop communication skills.
I’ve asked myself, why did God have our society put so much emphasis on game playing and the particular skills developed playing them? Surely there will be some future application for mankind having developed the skills. Any thoughts on this?
Kids want video games because it makes them popular. I suppose you are not socializing with other kids, but if you have them over, you are still talking and socializing with them.
It’s going to get cooler and cooler for kids. Soon games will be in 3-D and you’ll have a little platform to play on. With the Wii, you may never get out on a court, but it’s a lot cheaper to pay two hundred for one, but it’s a lot cheaper than spending court time or other fees, plus it gets you off the chair. It also gives you faster reflexes and stronger fingers.