I Have An Addiction
What Is An Addiction?
First, let me give you the definition of an addiction. An addiction is a physical or psychological dependence on a substance or a continued activity despite the negative consequences associated with it.
My addiction is to match games. You are thinking that this is not too bad...but you are totally wrong. It is just as bad as any other addiction or maybe even worse than some other addiction you could have. I will show you in the following modules exactly why I think this is a bad addiction.
Photo Credit: All of the images in this lens are mine. Please do not copy.
How Do I Know I Am Addicted?
My confession
I know I am addicted to these games because once I start them I can't get away from them for hours. When I say hours, I mean hours. I usually spend no less than 6 hours on these games and usually more. If I can't get one of them to work, I go on to another one. I tell myself that I need to quit because I need to make super, work on my lenses, go grocery shopping, or whatever. But, I don't quit. I continue playing the games. It is an obsession. I really must continue trying to get a better score.
Following are some of the games that I am addicted to. I try to stay away from them as much as I can. I tend to play them a lot when I get depressed. It is something that is repetitious and doesn't take much thinking other than do the 3 gems match each other. I love the ones that are challenging. The more challenging the better.
To Match 3 Games
Are you Addicted
Bejeweled Blitz
Was my favorite game
I played Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook for quite some time but it was so small I could barely see it and you had to have a good connection to keep it going. So when they offered it for sale so you could play it on your computer at home. I bought it on February 4, 2011. You still played against your friends. You just weren't in Facebook. To compete against your friends, you had to connect to Facebook though.
In December 2012, PopCap quit supporting the PC version of this game. I had to search around for another game to take up my time. I used to love competing against everyone else. I can still play the game on my PC and compete against myself. It's just that that gets boring. OR, I could go on facebook and play the game against my friends even though it would be rather small on my laptop and hard to see.
Photo Credit: Photo does not show anyone's scores but my own.
Bejeweled 3 - My pick to replace Bejeweled Blitz
When PopCap decided not to support the PC version of the Bejeweled Blitz, they sent me a letter giving me a code for a free game from all of their other games. This is the one I opted for. It was as close to Bejeweled Blitz as I could get.
Jewel Quest Heritage
A game with a challenge
This game is really interesting. Not only do you have to match the jewels or whatever shows up on the screen. Each phase has a different theme to challenge you. You are going through a family tree of Natalie Pack. As you go through each one of the members of her family tree, you must finish the challenge that they throw at you. An example of one of the challenges is to cage some apes while you are trying to get all of the squares gold by matching gems. I found some new types of challenges in this game that I had never had before. This is really a game that you need to try.
UPDATE 1-9-13: I just finished all of the levels of this game. Boy, this was some challenge. Now it says that I can pick and choose which ones I want to replay and they will be more difficult. Now to decide if I want this challenge. LOL
Where Did This Addiction Start
It wasn't where I thought it was
After much reflection, I realize that I blamed the wrong game for starting my obsession with match 3 games. It wasn't Bejeweled or Jewel Quest. In reality, it started a long time before I even knew that Bejeweled Blitz existed. The very first games that I became addicted to were Centipede and Frogger on the Commodore 64 and Atari systems. Then came a game for the PC called Passages 3. This was my first experience with matching in a game. This did not match 3 like items but matched colors or image in the game instead. I would sit and play this for hours on end.
So when you begin to wonder where your addictions start, look beyond your conscious memory and start digging into your sub-conscious. You might be surprised what you find.
Oh, NO!
Another Game To Be Addicted To
I was watching my NCIS on TV the other day and they advertised their game site called Character Arcade. I went to check it out to see what they had. Lo and behold, I found another game that I am addicted to now. It is called Trizzle. You match 3 of the little characters and will get a medium character. Match 3 of these medium characters and you get a large one. Match 3 of the large characters and you get more moves. So far, I am not too far but it is really cool.
Oh, yes, you save up points for gifts like downloads of your favorite show.
This picture is of my statistics on Trizzle.
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