Held in Cologne, the world's largest computer game show had even more visitors this year. Like 357,000 so see photo below of the crowds. That`s 22,000 more than last year. There were 1568 companies showing their wares (including resellers) I'm told, so I didn`t get to see all of the games, let alone play any.
On the downside, statistics show that on average teenagers are spending each weekday 142 minutes indoors playing computer games, rising to 171 minutes daily at weekends. Time that might be better spent playing (sports?) outside instead of sitting hunchbacked indoors. Are games too addictive?Tickets were 30 € on sunday, which I found overpriced. No pensioner rebates, in fact I might have been the only over-30 there ;-) It was mostly teens and twens.
I am sure that there are some amazing computer games, but I only play stupid, free solitaire games on the net. I suspect it's because I am cheap (and some of these games are downright expensive), and I don't have the patience to learn a bunch of arcane rules. Same reason I haven't mastered any computer aided design programs. I spent years learning arcane rules for building and programming computers and now my brain is full.
I try to keep my game playing down to maybe an hour a day, it is calming. My worst fault is watching YouTube short videos. I might spend an hour a day doing that. This blog, my family and my house consume most of my time.
