Unit 0 Assessment: Technology’s Greatest Impact on My Life Today

The biggest impact of technology on my life has to be my unbreakable, and nearly relentless love for video games, as it has lead to my desire of becoming a computer programmer, hopefully as a programmer of video games. For almost my entire life so far, video games have played a major factor in nearly all my interests, as I basically picked them up from the very first point I could both hold a controller and understand what was happening in a game just enough to at least try to make my way towards the objective. My first experience with video games was through my dad’s Playstation One and Playstation Two, which acted as both my introduction into gaming, and my introduction to technology. I remember playing games like Crash Bandicoot and Digimon, but not being able to progress very far because I didn’t understand the games well enough to pass certain roadblocks they presented. The idea of owning my own video game console was presented to me all the way back on my fifth birthday, when I got a Nintendo DS Lite, and four DS games along with it. If my mom had not bought four games for me to play, then there is a chance I would not be as interested in technology as much as I am now, as my mom was not a gamer like my dad, so while she got me two very good games, the other two games she got were shovelware. If my mom only wanted to get me one or two games, she would have most likely gotten me the shovelware games, and while one of the games were pretty good, being “Spongebob’s Atlantis Squarepantis”, which I mildly enjoyed back when I first played it, the other game, being “Shrek Smash n’ Crash Racing”, was, in gamer terms, “a literal steaming, flaming, nasty smelling pile of literal garbage.” In English this roughly translates to “horrendous and boring.” I did not like this game, playing it only once, and proceeding to silently push the game to the side forever. If this were the only game I got, it’s likely that I would have grown cold to technology all together, but on the bright side, I got “Sonic Rush Adventures” and “Crash of the Titans,” as what I assume was my mom’s third and fourth choice at the store, which leads me to getting more games, and having a greater continued interest in video games. By this point I had become a gamer, and a chain of different events followed thanks to both the Playstations and my DS, which has lead all the way to current day where I own a Switch, Playstation four, and Laptop all of my own, and I am pursuing to become a programmer, thanks to my passion for video games.