Hands on Game Boy controller
mini-buttons pushed
as images flash by.
Cartoon figures
struggle to succeed
their mission
your power
as year by year passes
on LCD screens.

As images flash by
strategies applied
hard lessons learned.
Cartoons transform
themselves into 16-bit
Super Nintendo faces
bodies well-toned, strong.
Sophisticated programming pays off
interest in game maintained.

Hard lessons learned
new game, same goal – to win.
Exploring improved passages
of 32-bit world with keener eyes
faster hands, fingers on keys
door to next level awaiting.
Alliances form, you sit
in the darkness of your room
illuminated only by screen rays.

Exploring improved passages
32-bit gives way to 64
fantasy approaches reality
in appearance only
alliances severed
alliances formed, game continues
images flash by
games end, new games begin
interest retained.

Fantasy approaches reality
virtual-reality goggles donned
adrenaline courses
through veins
via 4 gigabytes of RAM
focus achieved
amidst the chaos
addictions need fuel
the fire is fanned.

Adrenalin courses
through veins.
Life waits outside your Windows
world of life-like superhuman
and non-human forms.
You choose the player
who you will become
for this game to get yourself to
the next level.