This photograph was taken in July 30, 2015. The scene takes place in my house, specifically in my brother’s room. It was at night, which is why I was playing videogames. In the photo we can see three different devices.
In the foreground we can see a Nintendo DS with the worldwide known videogame ‘The legend of Zelda’. In the center, behind the Nintendo DS, there is my computer with one of my favorite videogames, Caveman, which is a videogame originally made for the SNES console, but which can be emulated in a computer. Besides the computer we can see a Wii Controller. The devices are onto a brownish table. And I decided to add the vignette effect in order to create a nostalgic and old sensation.
I took this photo because it represents a strong part of my identity, I’m a person strongly connected with technology. I started playing videogames at age of 4, I received my first game when a friend of my aunt gave her a CD with games for an old console called SNES and since then showed a great ability to handle electronics and it becomes a passion to me. For me videogames represents part of my liberty and my intellect, when I was a kid I used to pass hours playing games like “Aladino” or “Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?” or just changing the configuration of the computers. I was born in the period of adaptation to technology, when computers and video games became part of everyday life.
When I look at the picture I felt very nostalgic, I remember how many times I got mad with my brother because of the computer. We used to spend hours adjusting the controls of the computer to play together.
I think that a lot of people could felt in that way, specially people a bit older than me, the frustration with the cassettes of the old Nintendo or the excitement when you bought a new videogame or a new console. I still play videogames, and I felt as excited as I used to felt. With videogames I was a dog, a princess, an emperor or even Daffy Duck.
I am who I am now in part by video games, I learned to be inquisitive and to solve problems with few alternatives, I learned battle strategies and history, and even I increased my manual skills. I think that video games can teach you more than some people, can teach values and show through fascinating stories how cruel or how beautiful can be the real world.
If everyone had the opportunity of experience the closeness that I feel towards videogames, they would understand that they can live different lives without leaving your home that you can know the soul of a character and feel like it’s an old friend just by knowing his story and that the work of the people who create video games is more valuable than people want to think.
This photograph inspires me to continue playing video games, to continue knowing different characters and their well-planned lives, to continue supporting emerging artists who in an actual industry like the videogames are less likely to be seen.
If I would be able to be a programmer or a creator, I’d like to work with my team to instill in the children of the next generation the values that the old videogames instilled on me and try to search ways in which the videogames could be used in more places, just like schools.
In the foreground we can see a Nintendo DS with the worldwide known videogame ‘The legend of Zelda’. In the center, behind the Nintendo DS, there is my computer with one of my favorite videogames, Caveman, which is a videogame originally made for the SNES console, but which can be emulated in a computer. Besides the computer we can see a Wii Controller. The devices are onto a brownish table. And I decided to add the vignette effect in order to create a nostalgic and old sensation.
I took this photo because it represents a strong part of my identity, I’m a person strongly connected with technology. I started playing videogames at age of 4, I received my first game when a friend of my aunt gave her a CD with games for an old console called SNES and since then showed a great ability to handle electronics and it becomes a passion to me. For me videogames represents part of my liberty and my intellect, when I was a kid I used to pass hours playing games like “Aladino” or “Where in time is Carmen Sandiego?” or just changing the configuration of the computers. I was born in the period of adaptation to technology, when computers and video games became part of everyday life.
When I look at the picture I felt very nostalgic, I remember how many times I got mad with my brother because of the computer. We used to spend hours adjusting the controls of the computer to play together.
I think that a lot of people could felt in that way, specially people a bit older than me, the frustration with the cassettes of the old Nintendo or the excitement when you bought a new videogame or a new console. I still play videogames, and I felt as excited as I used to felt. With videogames I was a dog, a princess, an emperor or even Daffy Duck.
I am who I am now in part by video games, I learned to be inquisitive and to solve problems with few alternatives, I learned battle strategies and history, and even I increased my manual skills. I think that video games can teach you more than some people, can teach values and show through fascinating stories how cruel or how beautiful can be the real world.
If everyone had the opportunity of experience the closeness that I feel towards videogames, they would understand that they can live different lives without leaving your home that you can know the soul of a character and feel like it’s an old friend just by knowing his story and that the work of the people who create video games is more valuable than people want to think.
This photograph inspires me to continue playing video games, to continue knowing different characters and their well-planned lives, to continue supporting emerging artists who in an actual industry like the videogames are less likely to be seen.
If I would be able to be a programmer or a creator, I’d like to work with my team to instill in the children of the next generation the values that the old videogames instilled on me and try to search ways in which the videogames could be used in more places, just like schools.
