Gone are the days when kids used to leave their homework incomplete, hearing the noises of the friends playing outside. The games like Kanche (marbels), chupan-chupayi (hide n seek), chor-police, phitu-gram, gulli danda, tipi-tipi-tap etc. etc. are rarely seen on the streets. Kids today don't even know the name of these games. Now parents are not concerned about their kid's injuries that they might get while playing outside, rather they are worried about the mental health of their kids and the eye-sights. All these concerns are coz of the games that kids play today – the Video games.
Digital games started with the small hand games gadgets called the game boy, that can be carried anywhere. Then the craze built up, kids started using the game boys with TV and then the game boy with QWERTY keyboard. I remember how much I insisted my parents for a game boy with QWERTY keyboard. A time came when the craze for game boy vanished and kids favorite was PC games. Kids use to stick to their PCs for hours. Many of my friends got spectacles on their eyes just because of this. Then the Play Stations (PS) came and they still are popular. All the PS series made a good money. Even the X-boxes gained popularity and still are popular. The only problem with PS and X-box in India is that they are costly for general public. May be that is why Online games became the playground for kids and also because online gaming is interactive & fun for kids.
Digital games started with the small hand games gadgets called the game boy, that can be carried anywhere. Then the craze built up, kids started using the game boys with TV and then the game boy with QWERTY keyboard. I remember how much I insisted my parents for a game boy with QWERTY keyboard. A time came when the craze for game boy vanished and kids favorite was PC games. Kids use to stick to their PCs for hours. Many of my friends got spectacles on their eyes just because of this. Then the Play Stations (PS) came and they still are popular. All the PS series made a good money. Even the X-boxes gained popularity and still are popular. The only problem with PS and X-box in India is that they are costly for general public. May be that is why Online games became the playground for kids and also because online gaming is interactive & fun for kids.
Strange na ? Kids today love playing with their friends but in the virtual world and once there was a time when whole muhalla (neigborhood) kids used to gather and play. Remeber the time whenever there was a power cut and we all used to come out in mass and play hide & Seek. Anyways if I call PS and X-box costly then even Online gaming is costly and that is why the one very successful playground of today came to existance - The Television.
Television is the Entertainment world today and the entertainment is not limited its getting wider day by day. I'll talk about it in my next post for now lets talk about this post. Well nowadays many TV service providers are present and almost all of them provide the game application. So no need to get a game boy, insert a cassette and then play the game. You get all on your TV only. No need to spend money in buying the game console & other stuff. TV service providers try to put educational games, so that the kids learn while playing. There are a lot many TV service providers in India and different games are provided by each.
Television is the Entertainment world today and the entertainment is not limited its getting wider day by day. I'll talk about it in my next post for now lets talk about this post. Well nowadays many TV service providers are present and almost all of them provide the game application. So no need to get a game boy, insert a cassette and then play the game. You get all on your TV only. No need to spend money in buying the game console & other stuff. TV service providers try to put educational games, so that the kids learn while playing. There are a lot many TV service providers in India and different games are provided by each.
Tatasky provides Codered, Candyman, SpeedSpell, Monbase Mayhem etc. Dish TV got 3 Section for kids : MiniKids TV, Playjam and Quizzy and Big TV has iGames like badminton, basketball, chess etc. Even IPTV service providers like iControl provide a good collection of knowledgeable games like Sudoku, I2Quiz, Recognize Me etc. MyWay IPTV provides games like freecell, tic tac toe, tactiles etc.
No need to spend unnecessary money on those stuffs which you get for free. Kids love games on TV and enjoy them equally. Television is really a new playground for kids. In fact sometimes I spent a lot of time playing games like sudoku, Tic tac toe etc on TV. So not only kids even other age groups find TV a playground.
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