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How Games Assisted One Person Through Life

By pete_gallagher

The founder of the website Hot Blooded Gaming has authored an extraordinarily introspective—and sometimes painful—piece on how videogames have always been there for him, through just about every tough moment he's experienced in his life.

Calling games his 'guardian angel,' author Kreyg details his love affair with games, which kicked off when he was only four years old and his family acquired a 'broken' NES. By the time he began attending school, Keryg was not popular because he "was the fat kid,' but even then, videogames were there for him:

Video games helped make not having friends at the young age more bearable. It was how I got to have fun as a kid. While people were at birthday parties I wasn't invited to, I was playing games that would have made a nice gift. Their loss, right?

Kreyg did eventually make some friends in high school; friends who shared a common love of games:

While the majority of the school was out partying and running from real cops, we were trying to not get busted in GTA and lose our turn to play. Ironic how we were playing GTA and staying out of trouble while some of our fellow classmates were the ones out getting in real trouble. As high school progressed, our weekend video game meet-ups were something we looked forward to.

Kreyg offers up many more tales (definitely read his full account here) before offering:

Throughout my life, I've been put in many tough situations. Through them all I've had one thing constantly there – video games. Video games made the bad times good, and the good times even better. Without video games, I feel many parts of my life, especially my childhood would have been a lot harder for me to get through.

 

Whether it be by coincidence or design, for the last 20 years of my life, video games have been my guardian angel.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).