Hours Played Per Week: 16 hours.

I find it incredibly fun and it allows me to do something with my friends I typically hang out with at school. Favorite Game: Halo 3. First Game Bought: Donkey Kong Country for the Gameboy Color. I got it for my birthday along with the Gameboy for Christmas of 1998 from my parents. Last Game Purchased: Call of Duty: Black Ops. My friends were online and I wanted to join them. I bought it from Gamestop when it was first released. I was such a fan of the previous installments.

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Hours Played Per Week: 7-10. Usually just as a little stress relief every day. Its fun to forget about reality. Everyone wants to be a hero. Favorite Game: Half-Life 2. The game is engrossing and the main character is someone developers hardly ever portray as the hero: a nerd. First Game Bought: Killer Instinct or StarFox. My cousins were big gamers and we always played when I visited. Last Game Purchased: Left 4 Dead 2. I recently got an Xbox 360 and Ive wanted to play this game since it was released. Who doesnt love a little zombie action?

Alexander Hesse-Colon (11) Photo by Stephanie Lindsey

1 TOO MUCH TO HANDLE | Looking over the large array of video games for sale, Alex Hesse-Colon (11) contemplates his choices for purchase. Ive already preordered three games this month, Hesse-Colon said. 2 I CAN BE YOUR HERO | Hesse-Colon considers purchasing Fallout: New Vegas, a game released in fall 2010. I think people like video games because its hard to lose; everyone wants to be a hero, Hesse-Colon said. Photos by Seth Fischer 3 ALL-NIGHTER | Ankush Guptas (11) plan for the Minecraft server was to keep expanding it to allow more players at a time. I am thinking that when we can upgrade to better quality hardware, I could create a time-lapse video showing how the world changed over time, Gutpa said. Itd also be cool to set up a scale model of Manual in-game as a way of showing school spirit. Photos by Seth Fischer

In search of a good game, Ankush Gupta (11) set up a Minecraft server for students. Words by Charley
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Ankush Gupta (11) was absorbed. Lit by the glare of his computer screen, the only sound in his room was the chatter of rapidly tapping keys. Gupta was playing Minecraft, an online game where players had the freedom to roam the vast in-game world as they chose. On New Years Day, he and Minecraft fanatic Rodney Folz (12) came up with the idea of a Minecraft server for only Manual students, referring to it as Ramcraft. The game was relatively unknown among the students before

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A poll of 205 students* taken January 9-10, asked the question: Whats your favorite video game console? *over 10% of the student body

the server surfaced. Highly anticipated console-games Halo: Reach, Fallout: New Vegas, and Call of Duty: Black Ops were all released in the fall of 2010 and were the talk among the gamers at school. When Halo: Reach, a console game, was first released, Dean Bowling (11) went to the midnight release, even though it was a school night. Minecraft drew me away from console games over time, not just because it was fun to play, but it also gave me a creative outlet that is still rare in gaming today, he said.
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Eighteen students played on the virtual private server (VPS) that Gupta purchased for a monthly payment of $15, and played under a domain that Folz owned, with a plan to keep expanding to allow more

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Nintendo released its 64-bit console, the Nintendo 64. Super Mario 64, after selling 11 million copies, became the Nintendo 64s highest grossing video game. Any generation, young or old, can play it. It is a loss that they dont make it anymore, Vanderly Dang (9) said.

The Game Boy Color was released in North America, and was made popular by Pokemon Blue Version and Red. Its a classic. Even though there are new generations, nothing will ever beat it, Vickie Tang (10) said.

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Microsofts Xbox 360 was released in the United States and Canada. My life would not be the same without Xbox. It helps me get away and just relax, Mylene Palania (9) said.

Halo 3 was released, and proceeded to sell approximately 8 million copies. Halo 3 is a stereotypical game that all guys play, Helen Lu (10) said.

players at a time. It appeared that even those few students were starting to become a bit of a problem for the server. The VPS I bought has enough memory to allow about 10 people to use it at a time without lagging up too badly, Gupta said. Unfortunately were having issues because Ramcraft is becoming too popular for its own good. It was a game-friendly student body at the school that catapulted Ramcraft into popularity. [Manual] is a lot more welcoming of video game culture, Virginia Johnson (11) said, who reviewed video games for The Crimson Record student newspaper. Were more accepting of nerds here.

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Sonys launch of the PlayStation marked the arrival of the most popular console of the 32-bit era of video games. In this year, the console was released in North America, and quickly outsold all of its competitors, with the exception of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The release of the first Playstation was epic. Ive had every version since, Nick Caldwell (11) said.

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Final Fantasy VII, after having sold 9.8 million copies, became Sony PlayStations highest grossing video game. The games antagonist, Sephiroth, was unanimously voted #1 by Electronic Gaming Monthly in their Top 10 Video Game Bosses. Source: TIME Magazine

Video games? Its a pretty common hobby of mine to say the least. Zachary MeeksSteiger (11) | Call of Duty 4 involves trash talking. We go to a lobby and trash talk people because theyre horrible. I do it for fun. Thomas Anderson (9) | I wake up at three in the morning to play video games. Maura Hayse (9).

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