Galil Blog|The Life of a Gamer

Baseball fans love to play their baseball video games along with watching their favorite team on a nightly basis. Some of the most popular baseball video games around today are MLB The Show and MLB 2K (insert year here). A lot of baseball fans might not want to play video games on a gaming system and would rather play them on their computer. One of the best baseball simulation games on the market today to be played on a computer is known as Baseball Mogul. The recent version, Baseball Mogul 2010, is available for download on the Sports Mogul website for $29.99. Gamers can purchase the CD-ROM version for $39.99 in retail stores all across the country.

Baseball Mogul, any version of the game, let’s the player do whatever he or she wants to do with their franchise. At the start of the game the player must choose which team they wish to run. Once they choose the team they can them make any player personnel moves they feel necessary such as trades, releasing players, signing free agents, demoting players to the minors and calling up top prospects to the majors. Once the month of June rolls around the player can then pick high school and college players in the draft and add them to their Minor League system.

The player can play the games too. Each day is a game and it consists of determining which pitcher to start the game, who to start at which position, and which relievers to use when the starting pitcher is done for the day. Baseball Mogul is one of the best baseball simulation games on the market today and one of the easiest in terms of gameplay.

Video games can be played on consoles with a television, on hand held consoles, or on the computer via the Internet or software. Online video games have become one of the most popular forms of video games around today because some of them are free to play and others can be played against people all over the world. This is what makes online video games so popular; the fact that gamers can face other gamers all around the world.

Playing video games online is easy to do. All you need is a computer and an internet connection. You also need access to the website that hosts the video game. Once all of this is setup the gamer can then begin to learn how to play the game and start their endeavor. The games can be played against the computer or against other gamers playing the game on the Internet.

Online video games can cost money to play if they need to be purchased from an online video game store or from the website itself. But sometimes, even more often than not, online video games are free of charge to gamers playing on the Internet. This is what makes them so popular to gamers all over the world. One of the most popular gaming websites that offers free games is Candystand. Candystand has been around for quite some time now and they offer sports games, arcade games, racing games, card games, puzzle games and trivia games for people of all ages.

This is a great story.  So, I was recently working at a residence whose  neighbors were having a yard sale.  Did it ever pay off to be at work early.  I arrived at job location bright and early at 6 A.M..  They invited me over and I decided it would be a great way to let my morning’s coffee sink in.  I’m one of those people that always looks at the local classifieds for deals, but never really seems to take the action of buying stuff.

Chances had it that I found the jackpot by chance itself.  The first box that hit my eyes upon entering their attached garage was a brown cardboard box saying “$20.00.”  This box contained two original Nintendo Systems, Duck Hunt Gun, and approximately 80 games.  You hear it right.  Both systems work and that made my day.  The basics behind the story are that times are tight, so look for bargains.  Paper Boy what!

I was recently thinking about how much money is in the video game market.  Nintendo first became a household name in 1985 with the introduction of its original system.  Even Sony, who has invented transistor radios and video camera, has their highest historical sales from a video game system.    In 2007, the industry had $18 .8  billion dollar in revenue, a 40% increase from 2006.  The market is growing everyday with sales of 60 million units in 2007.

The three major players in the market are: Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.  The systems has captioned more and more market shares as their technology squeezes out the necessity for DVD players.  Systems are also using the increased internet capability to allow users to interact from large distances.  3D Gaming is just around the corner.