Video Gaming The Rule Rather Than The Exception

Video games have become a cultural norm. I remember when I was little having an Atari and playing Pitfall and Pac-Man. Later we graduated to Nintendo and playing Super Mario Bros. My mother for some odd reason loved watching me play Tetris. I think the Atari went the way of the dodo, and the Nintendo ended in the basement for a while until my daughter wanted it, and fixed what was broken on it. Flash forward to the internet and pc games and online games. My brother is very heavy into this online gaming culture. He even talked me into playing one that was free called Rappelz. It's pretty much a game where you go around and kill things in a medival fantasy setting. But the problem with these games that are free is that you have to pay for all of the good stuff! Me being a casual player I never spent a dime on an online game. My brother on the other hand has spent thousands over the years on these free games. I was playing Rappelz infrequently up until a few months ago when my mediocre account got hacked and someone stole the things I had worked so hard to achieve over the last four or five years. My son logged into his account and found the same thing had happened to him. I was upset, but not really as it was just a time waster, and I wasn't playing all that much anyways. I wonder if my brothers account got hacked, since he had a ton more stuff that he payed money for. So now my friend has introduced me to a game called League Of Legends, that I've played a bunch of times in the last few weeks. But I've never been a big video game fan, they are too addicting, and people waste so much time staring at a monitor or a tv screen instead of going out and enjoying life. Video games should be an infrequent entertainment, like going to the movies or a sports event. Video games have become a cultural rule rather than the exception. But after publishing this I may waste some time on League Of Legends.