pped spinning or if it was still spinning. I didn't even know when my mother was calling me to the kitchen table for dinner. I just shut myself down from the reality and put myself in the world of video games. I didn't care what was going on in the real world, I was in my own little fantasy playing pong and having fun. As an 18 year old, I'm still very fond of playing video games today. Today's video games would blow Pong out of proportion. Pong wouldn't be able to contest with the graphics, sounds, and the memory capacity that each game contains these days. Games today are so realistic, with neat graphics, and bombastic sounds, that kid's today focus their attention on them. Kids today are more likely to get hooked on video games than anything else just like I was with Atari. Kids like this will end up not doing there homework when they get home from school, some will even insist on playing video games before going to school. One parent said, "And he wouldn't want to go to school until he played all the games... it sounds silly but it's just like it got into his bloodstream, like some kind of addiction." (2) Parents start to become concerned when their kid's grades start to fall and they notice that they don't go out to play with friends. Parents find them glued to the television playing video games. "I would like him to get out and get more exercise and socialize with friends." (1) Parents find their kids playing Nintendo games for hours at a time, this latest oddity is called "Nintendo Obsession." This obsession can eventually lead to "nontraumatic torticollis", or also known as "Nintendo neck." Nintendo neck occurs when kids sit in front of the television, playing Nintendo in an awkward position tilting their neck in an angle, while flexi
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