Gloria's Reading Notes:
-13 year old girl in cafe engrossed by the "holding power" of a game
-"By 1982 people spent more money, quarter by quarter, on video games than they spent on movies and records combined. And although the peak of excitement about the game may have passed with their novelty, video games have become part of the cultural landscape"
-"Protest against video games carries a message about how people feel about computers in general"
-"Video games are interactive computer microworlds"
-"The new 'logic technology' has made possible an explosion in the freedom of game designers to search for ways to capture the attention, the imagination, and the coins of players"
-Jarish
-"The players whose names are up on the screens of a game in 'their' arcade form a competitive community, and one of mutual recognition"
-"Involvement with simulated worlds affects relationships with the real one"
-Promise of perfection-"Perfect mirror"

Gloria's Class Notes:
-"Fly Guy" Game with deeper meaning http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/
-Learning: difference between regurgitation and understanding-being able to use concepts
-What you learn in video games may be useful outside the games
the "experience" is lost if you just buy the strategy guide. you would just be regurgitating the answers and not figuring things out yourself
-Pg 504 "When Jarish goes into an arcade . . . dream machine that can make anything possible and as the rule machine that makes everythign that is crazy ultimately controllable."
-Is video game playing worth it?
-Is there a way to use video games in education?
-Science: is it science's job to communicate to the "general public"?
-Turkel: in video games, you try on different identities.
-Pg 509 "In this kind of play children have to learn to put themselves in the place of another person, to imagine what is going on inside someone else's head. There are no rules, there is empathy. There are no dice to roll, there is understanding, recognition, negotiation, and confrontation with others."
-"Promise of perfection" Pg 511