Video-game

Even video-game machines owned by most children today are computers.

I possess three kinds of video-game machines.

Are video-game cutscene dialogues copyrighted?

Next morning my son announces that he has teamed up with other youngsters, been for a midnight swim, hung around the ship’s 2000 Club, played shuffleboard, deck quoits and generally video-gamed the night away.

By the time we fueled, shopped, phoned, ate, video-gamed, and shopped again (just in case a new shipment of chrome came in while we were at dinner), it was usually ten o’clock when we finally headed back to the truck and the bunk.

The boys and girls stared at the TVs, they stared at the computers, they emailed, they chat-roomed, they video-gamed, they face-booked, they texted, and they twittered.

Kerstin Wolgers made it through 82 years on this Earth without ever once checking an email, watching a YouTube clip or sending a tweet. But last week, as part of a crash course that introduced her to the Internet for the first time, the former Swedish actress did all three — plus Googled, Instagrammed, Wikipedia-ed, shopped, video-gamed … even online-dated, eventually.

In the early dark hours, as armored vehicles rumbled across the border and warplanes filled the skies, people were sleeping, bathing, making love, video-gaming, soothing a sick child.