I love the End of Gaming!

My email is stuffed. Keep in mind I am getting around to all of it. If you haven’t got a response, you will soon.

Meanwhile, I never realized how much I loved the End of Gaming. These ‘Non-Games’ are fantastic!

What is that, reader?

*listens as the reader talks*

Yes, yes, I see. You wonder what I am referring to. Well, I am talking about how what I thought was gaming wasn’t gaming at all. Oh no! In fact, the gaming I thought was gaming was actually non-gaming.

Above: A Non-Game according to the “Game Industry”

If the above is true, then the below must also be true.

Above: Another ‘horrible’ “non-game”.

Above: Also another ‘horrid’ “non-game” by the definition of the “Game Industry”.

In fact, if all the above is true, then we must conclude that:

Above: A Non-Gaming Console

So what does this all mean? It means that everything that came out before the Playstation, before the creation of the modern “Game Industry” is defined as ‘non-gaming’ or even ‘casual gaming’. Incredible!

For years, we have puzzled over why the term of ‘non-games’ gets thrown around so frequently and has bizarre definitions. The true answer of the non-game appears to be this: any game not made by the “Game Industry”.

Nintendo was OK when they were just making 3d Mario and Zelda games. But now that Nintendo, and other game companies, are making anything outside of that is declared a ‘non-game’. All these ‘non-gamers’ are declared to be ‘casual gamers’ and are said to be ‘manipulated by crafty marketing’ and even ‘exploited’.

The last I checked, I didn’t have to pay for DLC for these type of games. There also is no massive hype marketing campaign for these so-called ‘non-games’. I don’t think it is the so-called ‘casual gamers’ who are being manipulated. I would say it is the ‘hardcore gamers’.

What I see instead are “Industry Games” from a mindset of ‘Machine Minds, Machine Hearts, and Machine Men to make Machine games’. Soul-less. Ghastly. Of course it would be the “Industry” to say that every game not made by them is a ‘non-game’, and it is no surprised that the ‘hardcore’ are projecting the exploitation and manipulation they perceive on “casual gamers” that is actually occurring to them. I love the “casual games” because they are real games, not assembled and machine mind made ‘Industry games’.

If this be the End of Gaming, give me more! Perhaps all the shrieks of “End of Gaming” when the DS and Wii appeared were truly translated as the “End of Game Industry”.

More gaming. Less Industry. That is my motto.