The Dragon's Non Generic Blog

Here's the video for your viewing pleasure Linky Now here's the story of how this challenge came to be: Around two weeks ago myself and my friend were talking on Facebook, we were reminiscing about martial arts and the times we used to train.  He asked me if I still had it, I replied yes and said I could take him any day. His response was a challenge but not in the traditional way, he purposed that we fight on Killer Instinct for the snes since that was the only version he said he had played. I asked him if he was sure considering out of every fighting game I have played KI was the one I put the most hours into around 800 odd last time I checked. I offered a few other fighters such as SSF4AE or KOF13 he refused and said he wanted to play KI. Never one to back down from any challenge I accepted and the stage was set for our encounter. THE FIGHT : When I got to the shop I had brought two controllers (since he told me he didn't want to use my arcade stick)...

Sometimes we have to say what we are feeling inside, what our heart is telling us. So I decided to do just that when a friend of mine challenged me to a game of Killer Instinct.

There has always been this huge myth surrounding the coalition between video games and violent acts committed by the people who play them. As a huge fan of video gaming from an early age (I remember playing the C64 when dinosaurs ruled the earth) I have always been exposed to their fictional world of entertainment. Around this same time I was exposed to violent films such as The Terminator and Robocop films that carried 18 certificates at that time. Watching them my grandmother was always quick to point out that the action was fantasy and that such things never happened in real life. Because of this I was able very clearly to differentiate the differences between reality and fiction. My nan was somewhat old school in her parenting ways however she had managed to adapt herself to the current way of thinking rather than be stuck in the 1930's. She taught me right from wrong, selfishness from selflessness. I understood what was the right thing to do and what was the wrong thing to d...