An online game is a video game played over some form of computer network. This network is usually the internet or equivalent technology, but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the Internet, and hard wired terminals before modems. The expansion of online gaming has reflected the overall expansion of computer networks from small local networks to the internet and the growth of internet access itself. Many online games have associated online communities, making online games a form of social activity beyond single player games. There’s really nothing wrong with that. Technology is there for us to utilize to our advantage.
And since they have become the source of entertainment for the kids of this generation, why not embrace it as well? The problem however, is when we totally abandon our past and forget the ways and practices of our childhood. Forgetting about our traditional games, and not putting an effort to introduce them to today’s younger generation, is like cutting the connection between the past and the present. Larong Pinoy Games are commonly played by children usually using native materials or instruments. Kids usually come up fun ideas, inventing games without the need of anything but the players themselves. With the flexibility of a real human to think and act makes the game more interesting and challenging.
Gone are the days when for kids, playing means going out in the sun, running, rolling, jumping and shouting. Today, playing means facing the computer or other gaming device, pressing on buttons and keyboards, and spending the whole day just sitting around while facing the gadgets’ screens. Indeed, times change, and so are the people’s ways and practices. Parents nowadays often lament on the fact that their kids are no longer familiar with traditional games such as patintero, taguan, piko, and habulan. But still they continue to support their kids’ addiction to Angry Birds, or other digital games for that matter, by buying them new gadgets in which they could play these games.
Some parents would even play with their kids on these new gadgets. Perhaps they get addicted to online games as much as their children do. So we came up to develop a system entitled “PABATA; Traditional Pinoy Games” to make children and adulthood remember our traditional games, and let our children play our traditional games outside with their friends to experience the happiness playing outside and using gadgets.
