Computer Games

During my Christmas holidays my brother-in-law brought a computer game he had been playing, but with which he had come to a dead end. The game in question was an adventure one with lots of puzzles which have to be solved and was called Kings Quest IV.

Looking back Kings Quest IV looks very dated, with pretty basic graphics, but what was important were the puzzles and the addictive nature of playing. I started playing the game, and was hooked! I took the game to work after the Christmas break (against the rules of course) and spent some time playing after work on an evening. As you would expect some of the other members of the team became interested in what I was upto. Before long four or five of us were all trying to complete the game, which we did after a few weeks. Once we had completed Kings Quest IV we rushed out and bought Kings Quest V.

Kings Quest V did have modern quality graphics, and sound, and was icon driven, and so on. But most importantly it had hundreds of puzzles to solve and the same addictive quality as its predecessor. Again four or five of us worked our way through the game on an evening over a period of many weeks.

So, four or five of our team played a computer game in an evening over a period of a few months ......... dot...dot...dot....... and so what! Well, as with many team building activities, the activity spills over into the rest of the people. Everyone became interested in the surreal conversations which would take place during the day, about whether you had found the fish in the barrel in the town square, and did you know that if you picked the fish up you could throw it at the bear who was trying to get the honey out of the beehive in the tree.