Archetypes on Acid

This article is about how video games have evolved from the arcade arena to the comfort of ones home. It goes into dept how playing video games at home has become more economical --you don't have to keep putting money into a machine to continue playing once you die-- and less stressful -- not having a line of people waiting to play the same game. It also goes into the psychological aspect of gaming, and how it has become a social activity for not only friends, but among families too. in addition, gaming is no longer thought to only be for young boys, but for girls and adults as well, being that most adolecents continue playing through adulthood. THe psycological theories that involve gaming are behaviorism, social learning and pyscoanalysis. Something that i found interesting was that every game follows the same archetype that was set in the early games of PacMan, which is the quest to find a meaning in life, also including the fact of good over evil, regardless of the game. Another cool fact is that arcade or home people are still playing the classics.