My bro and I used to love video games. That was us in the picture (well not really, but something very similar). After school, before school, weekends… whenever mum would give us permission really. We were those geeky kids that had video game party nights. It was simple. It was basic. He was my video game buddy. He and I always just hung out together. We had one of those original video games. There were no discs or DVD’s in that time. They were more like huge video cassettes.
Yes… the dinosour. Classic. But boy it was fun. It still surprises me how many memories were created over one little machine. There were races, there were those games you had to build a character, or work together as a team where for some reason, our team work was always top notch and up to scratch on the video consol, but never quite so perfect in real life. Maybe we both had the same goal, the same destination to get to… the next level.
And over time we got the latest playstation, and tried to convince our mum to keep up with the times and update our consol as quickly as we could say Playstation. Didn’t happen of course. She never really understood our whole obsession. But my younger bro, he got it. He still gets it. And if I were to go out tomorrow to buy the latest and most coolest device and game, he would say “is it awesome?!!!” And he would be over in a giffy to try it out.
This mum would not be getting away with gifting an old dinosaur! Not by my kids, not by my bro.
And if he came over, we would reminisce those days. He would get his young boy back in kinderland hat on, and he would just have a good time. With me. With my kids. He may even invite his girlfriend along to our party. She may just feel inspired to get into the land of kidzone fun times for one night.
And even though she has no idea of who and what Harry Potter is, we would go into a land of spells, a land of magic, a land of imagination. He and I would take my Little Miss along with us for the adventure. She would get her little girl in fantasyland hat on, I would, and he would. We would be something we always wanted to be, but never found the way to be it. Magicians. We would be those kids again in a time of magic, imagination and illusion. Because now we can. Now it is easy. Now there are no dinosaur’s.
We would learn spells together, we would wave our magic wand. The Little Miss would put on her cape, her magician hat and get her magic hat out too. I would probably find an old sheet and turn it into a cap. No doubt, we would all feel like we were in another world, another land, another fantasy.
Imagination. Creation. Sharing. Family.
And just like that, a simple game, a simple device, would take us to another world of fantasy and wonderland. And my bro and I would continue the tradition, and pass on our love and our fantasy desires. We would inspire, we would create, we would have new memories created, and old memories come too.
Stories never came to life like they do today…
Yes, video games today are no longer like those dinosaur games I had in my time. They are even more awesome. They are even more cool. And they allow our kids to do things and create things in a world simply designed for creativity. And maybe, just maybe, in time we will have a video game night tradition where we are all on the coach together, laughing, playing, imagining, dressing up and going deep into a land of family moment good times. And then and there, a new family tradition, a new family moment, a new memory is created together.
So if you think your kids want the coolest video game around at the moment for christmas, then this one is sure to be a winner. Especially if they are a mad Harry Potter fan!
Do you have any fabulous memories with video games? Or what video games are your kids into now?
This is a sponsored post for Playstation. All opinions are my own.
