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2 Responses to “Still mind/fast game”

1. Dan/Peps // Nov 15, 2007 at 2:44 am

   You don’t seem to have a comments bit on your new blog, Chris! I would therefore like to proffer the following response to your linked post…

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   I like badminton! So much so that my girlfriend and I bought a couple of rackets and a shuttlecock and had one game over our washing line at some point during the summer of 2007… Despite our admittedly less than prolific playing of such, I would concur that it is indeed the things you say it is.

   However…

   By way of what might be considered a surprising comparison, I would like to suggest that one can experience similar results from… Tetris! (for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, you can find numerous downloadable versions of this most beautifully simple of videogames on the Internet).

   Now I admit to being something of a gaming aficionado, who likes nothing better than to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon with a PlayStation 2 controller in my hands, frantically hammering the X button in an effort to secure first place in a fictional BMX race in a fictional town, or playing out a scene in a thrilling, bullet-riddled Bond adventure, or skulking through a dungeon taking the heads of snarling, spitting, green-gored beasties… But…

   It always comes back to Tetris! I never tire of it!

   With the ultra-realistic graphics, intricate storylines and increasingly interactive worlds available to today’s gamers, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of slotting different-shaped blocks into different-shaped holes… and when one has got to the point of barely even caring about beating high scores and what-have-you… how much more Zen can you get?

   Of course, Tetris doesn’t have the fitness benefits of badminton…

2. Christopher // Nov 18, 2007 at 2:03 pm

   I’m not a gamer myself, but I understand that those things can help people not become discouraged when they fail at first. That is an important lesson I wish I had learned earlier. It wouldn’t surprise me if those games aid focus and concentration.

   There is a lot to be said for the benefits of exercise. Surely, the occasional burst of speed must be permitted in the cause of better health.