tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33827739746871315152011-10-01T14:10:18.455-07:00Online games for the whole family.coconoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382773974687131515.post-46820406084895194712011-10-01T14:10:00.001-07:002011-10-01T14:10:18.470-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="247" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dragoncitygames.com/data/images/swf/f-619.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><p><embed align="middle" height="247" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.dragoncitygames.com/data/images/swf/f-619.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"> </p></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382773974687131515-4682040608489519471?l=dragoncitygames.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>coconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382773974687131515.post-70837987529058578922011-09-22T10:19:00.001-07:002011-09-22T10:19:31.692-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="247" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dragoncitygames.com/data/images/swf/game_347.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><p style="text-align: center;"><embed align="middle" height="247" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.dragoncitygames.com/data/images/swf/game_347.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"> </p></object></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382773974687131515-7083798752905857892?l=dragoncitygames.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>coconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3382773974687131515.post-91748024643796495012009-03-18T04:50:00.000-07:002009-03-18T05:02:26.430-07:00The evolution of video gaming<br /><br /><br />lf your last experience playing a<br />video game involved navigating a .<br />yellow semicircular creature around<br />a dotted maze aùd munching ghosts,<br />you're wambehindthe curve.<br />The video game industry<br />changed almost completely since Pac-<br />Man gobbled up the spare time and<br />countless quarters of a generation.<br /><br />What was oncejusta thumb-<br />numbingpastime for suburban kids<br />has become a multi-billion-dollar en-<br />tertainment. Somepeople<br />decry the rise of violence and sexual<br />content in games, while others laud<br />the high levelly mental stimulation<br />required of the modern gamer<br /><br />In the beginning. . . video games<br />were pretty terrible, at least by<br />today's standards. One of the earliest<br />games, Pong, loosely simulated<br />tennis by Oowingplayers to volley a<br />t-ball'' between two ('paddles'' (really<br />a dot bouncing between two lees).<br />.The video game<br />idustry progressçd in the early 1980s, with a series of<br />home consoles that saw blocky on-<br />screen characters do not very much.<br />of<br /><br /> A number of<br />studies by respectable institutions<br />have drawn links between video<br />game violence and youth aggression.<br />But plenty of other studies have<br />found ho juch connections.<br />Sciehce writer Stevenlohnson, in<br />his book Everything Bad Is Good for<br />Fold, argues that today's video games,<br />which require aniyticalreasoning,<br />and some intellectually stimulating<br />than any other leisure Activity.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3382773974687131515-9174802464379649501?l=dragoncitygames.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>coconoreply@blogger.com