Games People Play

Indoor and Outdoor games

Games, both indoors and outdoors have been an integral part of my growing up. They are a great source of stress management as well as a great form of affordable entertainment.

Playing indoor and outdoor games has helped shape my personality while growing up to a large extent. Hide and Seek, Lock and Key, Marco Polo, Kumir Danga, Badminton are some of the outdoor and games that I remember playing in the lanes around our south Kolkata neighborhood. Uno, Boggle, Scrabble, Life, Business, Cluedo are some of the indoor games that also enchanted us for a very long time.

Now that I am a “grown up” , like everybody out there in the big bad world, I often have to deal with the real life games that people often play.

Life Games

I am writing this post with the hope that it will help me to move on from the games that people play in life. These life games are often played by toxic people pretending otherwise. What do you do with such people? You chuck them. Yes chuck them like a basketball. Such people and the thoughts they provoke do not deserve any space in your mind. None at all.

Overcoming toxicity and moving on

In several life situations I am faced with instances during which I can feel it in my bones that somebody is being a 110% toxic with me. I literally can see the toxicity. So how do I deal with it? I simply ignore it and move on without even a glitch. This moving on is easier if I engage myself with activities that I enjoy like reading, writing, gaming, baking, gardening, upcycling, blogging, just to name a few.

Childhood Games I used to Play

Other than the outdoor games, I used to love video games when I was young. It started with the hand held ones playing tetris and snake building. Then I moved on to the TV video games like Mario, Super Mario, Alladin, clay pigeon and duck hunt in the school days.
In college, it was all about computer games which culminated with me finishing Need for Speed most wanted in record time.

Then we were introduced to social media and voila! It was the Facebook era, and

Hello Farmville!! The farmer inside me woke up and I found myself sowing, watering and harvesting during all my free hours.

Online Gaming

Ever since the COVID pandemic, many things in life have shifted online. One such thing is gaming. Together with the advent of high speed internet, gamers like me have a gala time playing online games

Recently I came across a great website called Plays.org with thousands of free online games, and they add new games to the site daily. They have a wide array of totally free, online browser based games. The best part is that this site does not have any pesky pop ups or irritating ads that will whisk you away to random or dangerous websites. That is the best thing about this gaming site for me. The games can be played very easily either on desktop or on mobile phones.

I have played a few of these online games and totally loved it. The best part is I did not have to download any app or any add ons.
Some of the games that I played online are:

Knife Hit

Knife Hit Mobile Game: A simple mobile game in which players try to stick knives in a spinning wood board or other spinning object like a cheese round, apples etc. It is overall a fun game with low difficulty level.

Pocket Racing

Pocket Racing is a difficult 60-stage ragdoll physics obstacle course racing game in which players have to avoid hitting spikes, falling off platform, running into obstacles, or flipping over and crashing. Till now this one is definitely my favourite one. It gets a bit challenging from level 4 but in a fun way.This one brought back my Need for Speed days!

Another one of my favourite online game sites is the Internet Scrabble Club ( isc.ro) where I played scrabble with real players from all around the world. It was a lovely time and I made a few online friends too (this was way before making friends online became a distinctly dangerous thing to do!)

Anyway, writing this post made me realize that I had nearly forgotten the soothing effect that playing games had on me. I will definitely be thinking seriously about buying an X-Box or maybe a Playstation soon!

This post is part of Blogchatter’s  CauseAChatter.