Begginings

So I wanted my first post here to give me a reason to keep doing this. What am I hoping to accomplish? Is there something I really want to say? Am I going to just forget about this in a month and stop writing all together?

To last question the answer is, I hope not. I've kept a few blogs over the years, and even posted to one diligently for over 2 years, but it was all personal, with the occasional editorial style post thrown in. That's not what I want to do here. I am hoping to accomplish something that I think is missing from massive video game cannon right now.

The Nintendo Entertainment System launched in 1985 in the US. I was born three years prior to that, and basically don't remember a world without video games. Mine is the first generation that can really say that, and now we are all grown up. We have full time jobs, we're married, we have children and homes, and the hours and hours we spent playing games when we were younger is a thing of the past.

So how do we make it work? How do you convince your wife that your favorite past time if worth spending the extra family income on? That you are willing to spend a day of vacation because Fable II just came out, and you want to spend some time playing undisturbed. I think these are the types of questions that no one is answering right now.

But most of all I want a place to talk maturely about video games. We have matured, video games have matured, and I think we are missing a place to discuss that. I hope this can be that place.