Video Game Awesomeness Post 4

Too bad I didn't play the original Nintendo Mario Kart on "Throwback Thursday", or "Flashback Friday" because those are the perfect words to describe how I felt playing it. I'm really familiar with Mario Kart on Nintendo 64, but the original Nintendo is a different story. The remote doesn't have a tiny joystick to control the direction of the players, which made it harder to control the kart! The resolution of the game was incredibly dull to what video games look like today, and the music is awful. I found it so hard to control the direction and speed of my character and his kart that the game got old pretty fast, so I decided to switch to guitar hero. I will fully admit that when I was in high school I suffered from a Guitar Hero obsession, so I tried to hold off playing it for this assignment until I couldn't take it anymore. I can proudly say that I can even play on the expert level for some of the songs. I played about 7 songs and then decided to call it a night, but if no one can find me tomorrow thats what I most likely will be doing.

It is kind of hard thinking of what Mario Kart was trying to teach me, but two areas it does test me in are patience and bringing out my competitive spirit. It is so easy to become frustrated in Mario Kart if you cannot control your kart very well because the kart will never do what you want it to. Playing it with others, as well as playing against the game can capture your competitive spirit because there are objects you can use to throw the others off, and obtain the lead of the race. It is exciting when the game spins to choose your object because you never know what you are going to get! Guitar Hero also brings out your competitive spirit because after you play a song it gives you a percentage of how well you did. I would always strive for 100% all the time because I would always be so close that missing it by 2% would kill me. Guitar Hero teaches us patience as well because sometimes you have to keep playing a song over and over until you play it well enough to unlock another song. It motivates you to finish a goal by having the only way to play all the songs in the game is to unlock 4 songs at a time. It also increases the quickness between the processing of information of the notes on the screen to the correct button on the guitar. There wasn't a lot of discover learning going on because I had already been familiar with the games, but I did discover how much I missed Guitar Hero!