Think and Play The 21'st Century's Video Games

Hello, video game lovers in the world.

I am 40 years old Japanese video game player. My first encounter was maybe Galaxian (NAMCO, 1979) in 7 years old. Since then, I have been playing too many video games in so-called 'Golden Age 80's Japanese Video Games'. Now I think I was very lucky that I had grown with video games evolution. Not only graphics, sounds, but also systems, genre was developed in the 80's.

Fortunately, from this year, I was appointed to a visting associate professor at Digital Hollywood University (Graduate School), Japan, Osaka. I start to teach video game's history, industry, and interactivity. My class will be mainly constituted 20-30 age, not knowing 80's retro-but rich video games. Their favorites may be the Mobile-phone's light games, Wii/PS3(DS/PSP)'s super-major titles (Mario Bros series, Gundam series, Wining Eleven etc.)  or MMORPG in PC.

In my point of view, now is the beggining of the time-less time in video game's industry. In console's market, major titles and TV/MANGA-character based titels are main stream. On the other hand, in App store, classic arcade titles (ATARI, NAMCO) and the old pc titles (ZX spectrum) are on sale. Buldar's gate is developing. Then, in facebook, SimCity-like or war-strategy  browser games are released. In PC, too many online games are released, and finally Diablo III is coming. There is no one time line to develop video games. Actually, the titles I bought for my new iPad at App store several days ago was Infinity Blade (ChAIR Entertainment, 2010) and the Tower of the DRUAGA (NAMCO, 1983). Old and New titles are installed to a new tablet machine at the same time in 2012!

I watch the scene and think the truly interesting video games.
Of course, play more!