Question of the Day: What Games Do You Play?
The Pew Internet & American Life project released a new study today that said “More than half – 53% – of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming device, or online.”
I play video games, and have all my life. Growing up, I played Asteroids on my Commodore 64, mastered Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda, and Ice Hockey on a Nintendo NES, spent hours with Sonic the Hedgehog and John Madden Football on my Sega Genesis, and literally burned out multiple Gameboys. Today, I bowl on my Wii, play air hockey on my iPhone, and stay sharp with Brain Age on my Nintendo DS.
My life playing video games is pretty straightforward. I love gaming, but have never devoted the time or energy to it that true gamers do. After all, there are millions of games to play and whole communities and sub-cultures connected to gaming. I have visited them, lurked for a bit, but never joined.
So, the question of the day: What games do you play?
More importantly, have your game habits changed over time — and if so, how? If you don’t play games, why not? And whether you play or not, what do you think of games, and the role they play in our society (for better or worse)?
Let me hear it.
Brian is Managing Director of little m media which provides strategic guidance and support to organizations around the use of the internet and technology to facilitate communications, engagement, education, and mobilization. He is well known for his expertise in new media, web 2.0, social networks, mobile, community, ecommerce, brand marketing, cause branding, and more. Reich, the author of Media Rules!: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience (Wiley 2007). He blogs at Thinking About Media and contributes as a Fast Company Expert.
Previously, Reich was a principal of EchoDitto, one of the most successful online communications agencies in the nation, Director of New Media for Cone Inc, a brand strategy and communications agency in Boston and a Senior Strategic Consultant and Director of Boston Operations for Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, an interactive public affairs agency. From 2000 – 2004, Brian ran how own strategic communications firm, Mouse Communications.
Reich has worked in and around politics, including helping to direct dozens of campaigns across the country. He spent two years as Vice President Gore’s Briefing Director in the White House, handling both official activities and activities during his 2000 presidential campaign.
Brian serves on the board of Investigate West, independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of investigative and narrative journalism. Brian served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, DC and is currently teaching a course on consumer behavior and marketing at Columbia University in New York.
Brian attended the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Columbia University. He and his wife, Karen Dahl, live in New York City with their son, Henry.
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