I don’t play video games. I haven’t owned a console since the original 8-bit (or was it 16?) Nintendo with its original Super Mario Bros. (I played on friends’ N64s in college and beyond). This isn’t to say I didn’t used to play an awful lot and can’t get addicted. (I spent a great deal of my senior year playing Wave Racer and too many free evenings in later years playing Tetris. I think my preference may be for simple games. I came across a link to this flash game Desktop Tower Defense while reading the Livejournal of mcsnee. I’ve probably spent about ten hours on it now over the past few days. Experience game players might quickly realize the best strategy, and it’s taken me awhile to figure out how to get better, but I keep improving, and I suppose that’s what makes any game addicting.

Should you read this and begin playing yourself, I created a group called “Toastie”, which, regardless if anyone else ever plays, I can use to keep track of my own scores.

I really ought to be doing a thousand other things, like figuring out what to do with the remainder of my life. But I can’t stop playing this damn game…