Recently I noticed my young cousin (8-9 years old) doing his MUD game research online and compiling them into a Word document in table format. It thought it was pretty amazing stuff for someone so young! That moment, I realised computer games are a great learning tool and you can pick up a lot of skills from playing games.

For starters, Jasper (my cousin) knew how create a word document, sub headings and organised the data he collected from the internet into a report format. Next, he employed search engine and general research skills from the Internet to improve his gaming knowledge. These skills will serve him well in our modern day society. 

I was not good in most computer games, my psycho-motor skills ain't that great that why I fare badly at arcade or racing games. But I'm usually quite good at those strategy war games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Koei had PC games then). I love war games, build up an economy, invest in your army, recruit the most fearsome warriors and the most cunning advisors and rage a relentless war on your enemy at different fronts to prevent them any opportunity to recover.

(Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms was my fav game series)

Only time will tell. Today my cousin might be researching on some computer game fantasy fokelore, next time he might be investing time into studying Sun Tze's Art of War, just like me :) Next time if I have a kid, I'm going to let him playing computer games.