Quote from: Devlyn Marie on February 20, 2016, 11:57:36 AM
Gaming is in the Hobbies area: https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/board,426.0.html
Unless I'm so 20th century you're talking about something else! 
Hugs, Devlyn
$91 billion a year 'gaming' is a little more than a hobby.
Video game kids like me have completely forgotten "gaming" even refers to actual physical games like monopoly.
More kids AND ADULTS play things like League of Legends these days than watch MTV.
Heck, there is a professional gaming league for all kinds of video games, with highly paid, corporate sponsored competitors.
I dunno, what can we all commonly think of as a commonly understood term referring to the equally as important as TV or Movies, Video game industry? I guess just "Video Gaming" to make it clear, though I personally feel it is an antiquated term, "Interactive" is proper to me.
I'm not trying to be snotty or anything. just suggesting another section along side the other major entertainment media.
It's been my primary career industry since 1994. I'm biased. I eat sleep and breathe games. And for the inhabitants of "meat space" I mean games played on a computer of some kind.
I think I remembered once playing a "game" that didn't involve a computer..... It's fuzzy though, lol.
I'll be 46 in april.
My 50-something sister and her husband travel around the country to visit online gaming friends in their Lord of the Rings Online clan.
My 73 year old mother can't stop playing spider solitare on her computer, she used to sneak home at lunch when I was a kid and play with my Atari 2600 behind my back, lol.
I've also read a few posts from folks around here who are into game development as well. game developers like to just plain discuss the playing of those games, not just making them. It's more than an employment topic too.
Some of us make games for more than just a job or a business venture.
It's the next evolution of human storytelling and education, to me.
In a way, video games are closer to classic literature than a TV show or Movie.
Within a software title, reading, watching, problem solving, choices.... all available.
Works like Myst & Elder Scrolls Epics are an example.
This ain't Pac-Man no more
