Pac-Man Meets the Minutemen: Video Games by Los Angeles Latino Youth

Pac-Man Meets the Minutemen: Video Games by Los Angeles Latino Youth
By Katynka Z. Martinez - Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University

As someone who came of age in the mid-1980s, I am quite familiar with Pac-Man. The first time I played the game was at a neighborhood arcade called the Electric Planet. I still remember the song “Pac-Man Fever,” and the jingle that plays when Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man meet continues to hold a special place in my heart.

Video Game to Support Peace not Violence

Concern about the violence of commercial video games is well founded, but that doesn't mean we need to condemn all video games.  In fact, what if we could use video games to promote peace?

Wii's best kept secret

Technology gets cooler - the Nintendo Wii allows users (gamers) to keep track of the real world while gaming: you can follow the news and weather on the Wii system. In addition, you can even surf the web through the Wii console. This might sound like a systematic combination of technology features (similar to PS2 users being able to play DVD's on that system) however, I see this as a handy tool that will allow users to stay connected to the real world.

See! Video Games Can Save Lives

This is crazy. You can now "use your video game platform":http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/ps3-folding-update-coming-... (Sony PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360) and help Stanford University researchers decipher the structure of proteins through the "*Folding@Home*":http://folding.stanford.edu/ project. Each video game that signs up gets assigned a portion of the data calculation--collectively it becomes a huge distributed super computer.
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