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Lately we’ve seen some pretty strange things. People changing their names by deed poll to ‘Playstation 2’, in the recent census, where if enough people put ‘Jedi’ as their religion it would become an officially recognised religion in the U.K, and those Japanese people that dress up as their favourite games characters, all completely crazy.
So what if video games actually became a religion? Enter if you will, into the future and “The church of gaming”....
Many people already worship games characters like Lara Croft and the Army Men and games designers like Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima, so why not have a religion? It would certainly give our meaningless hobby a meaning, and might even make it more respected and in time accepted.
Just because games become a religion doesn’t mean that we’ll see a market flooded with Bible cash-ins like “Apostle Party”, like Mario Party, you must select your favourite Apostle and take it in turns to progress round the board. You play many different mini-games involving “feet washing”, “turning water into wine”, “loaves & fishes”, “cure the blind” and “catch the Judas”, where you must spot the hidden traitor.
And there’ll be no Max Payne style game with you controlling an on the run Judas, escaping from angry Apostles in level upon level of biblical action.
No, the games will stay the same, no bible games.
Video game priests would give sermons, including the latest game previews, reviews, hints and cheats. They would lead prayers thanking holy games designers, and conduct hymns; many are game themes featuring lyrics.
Our Bible would be “The Definitive History of Video Games”. Controversial sections include the constant Army Men games and the Fifa updates. Plus it would contain information on the gaming miracles such as Mario World, Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GTA3.
Gaming saints include: Solid Snake the Saint of Action, Mario the Saint of Platforming and Link the Saint of Adventure.
Like the various real life religions, we would see different religions and churches dedicated to Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega. Fans/worshippers would attend these different churches, say the “Church of the Nintys”, and revel in miracle man Miyamoto and wondrous gameplay of every Big N game.
We would see confession booths, where a Nintendo fan could admit to playing a Playstation game or a Sony fan admitting that Nintendo aren’t too bad (although in the “Church of the Sony Zealots”, this could be considered highly blasphemous).
Instead of having figurines of holy figures like the Virgin Mary, we would have little models of Shigeru Miyamoto. Instead of worshippers seeing tears in Mary’s eyes, we would see Shigsy twiddling his magic thumbs. Highly religious gamers might even claim to have seen a faint image of Miyamoto’s face in a cut up tomato or tealeaves.
Arcades would no longer be considered darkly lit hovels inhabited by designer clothes wearing thugs, but places to worship games. We could even take our prayer mats (possibly a mouse mat) to our desired gaming location and sit on them when playing.
At a certain time every day, gaming zealots would even face the country of origin of their favourite console, sit on their mouse mats and pray.
We aim to promote good gaming values, such as “try to finish games”, “don’t judge a game till you’ve played it”, “let people decide what console to enjoy without arguments” and most of all, “enjoy games”.
Highly dedicated gamers to this religion might even take a “vow of games playing”, where they wouldn’t break their silence or play a different game until they’ve completed their current game.
Fans could wear long smocks, cloaks or capes with games logos on them and campaign around towns and door to door, showing off their chosen console and humming & chanting video game music.
So, come the next census, put video games as your religion and we can enjoy this great past time even more, though we might be called a crazy cult.
So what if video games actually became a religion? Enter if you will, into the future and “The church of gaming”....
Many people already worship games characters like Lara Croft and the Army Men and games designers like Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima, so why not have a religion? It would certainly give our meaningless hobby a meaning, and might even make it more respected and in time accepted.
Just because games become a religion doesn’t mean that we’ll see a market flooded with Bible cash-ins like “Apostle Party”, like Mario Party, you must select your favourite Apostle and take it in turns to progress round the board. You play many different mini-games involving “feet washing”, “turning water into wine”, “loaves & fishes”, “cure the blind” and “catch the Judas”, where you must spot the hidden traitor.
And there’ll be no Max Payne style game with you controlling an on the run Judas, escaping from angry Apostles in level upon level of biblical action.
No, the games will stay the same, no bible games.
Video game priests would give sermons, including the latest game previews, reviews, hints and cheats. They would lead prayers thanking holy games designers, and conduct hymns; many are game themes featuring lyrics.
Our Bible would be “The Definitive History of Video Games”. Controversial sections include the constant Army Men games and the Fifa updates. Plus it would contain information on the gaming miracles such as Mario World, Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GTA3.
Gaming saints include: Solid Snake the Saint of Action, Mario the Saint of Platforming and Link the Saint of Adventure.
Like the various real life religions, we would see different religions and churches dedicated to Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega. Fans/worshippers would attend these different churches, say the “Church of the Nintys”, and revel in miracle man Miyamoto and wondrous gameplay of every Big N game.
We would see confession booths, where a Nintendo fan could admit to playing a Playstation game or a Sony fan admitting that Nintendo aren’t too bad (although in the “Church of the Sony Zealots”, this could be considered highly blasphemous).
Instead of having figurines of holy figures like the Virgin Mary, we would have little models of Shigeru Miyamoto. Instead of worshippers seeing tears in Mary’s eyes, we would see Shigsy twiddling his magic thumbs. Highly religious gamers might even claim to have seen a faint image of Miyamoto’s face in a cut up tomato or tealeaves.
Arcades would no longer be considered darkly lit hovels inhabited by designer clothes wearing thugs, but places to worship games. We could even take our prayer mats (possibly a mouse mat) to our desired gaming location and sit on them when playing.
At a certain time every day, gaming zealots would even face the country of origin of their favourite console, sit on their mouse mats and pray.
We aim to promote good gaming values, such as “try to finish games”, “don’t judge a game till you’ve played it”, “let people decide what console to enjoy without arguments” and most of all, “enjoy games”.
Highly dedicated gamers to this religion might even take a “vow of games playing”, where they wouldn’t break their silence or play a different game until they’ve completed their current game.
Fans could wear long smocks, cloaks or capes with games logos on them and campaign around towns and door to door, showing off their chosen console and humming & chanting video game music.
So, come the next census, put video games as your religion and we can enjoy this great past time even more, though we might be called a crazy cult.
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Jedi is now an official religion. It just depends on what you believe in.
Good post. I don't see it catching on though...
Lately we’ve seen some pretty strange things. People changing their names by deed poll to ‘Playstation 2’, in the recent census, where if enough people put ‘Jedi’ as their religion it would become an officially recognised religion in the U.K, and those Japanese people that dress up as their favourite games characters, all completely crazy.
So what if video games actually became a religion? Enter if you will, into the future and “The church of gaming”....
Many people already worship games characters like Lara Croft and the Army Men and games designers like Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima, so why not have a religion? It would certainly give our meaningless hobby a meaning, and might even make it more respected and in time accepted.
Just because games become a religion doesn’t mean that we’ll see a market flooded with Bible cash-ins like “Apostle Party”, like Mario Party, you must select your favourite Apostle and take it in turns to progress round the board. You play many different mini-games involving “feet washing”, “turning water into wine”, “loaves & fishes”, “cure the blind” and “catch the Judas”, where you must spot the hidden traitor.
And there’ll be no Max Payne style game with you controlling an on the run Judas, escaping from angry Apostles in level upon level of biblical action.
No, the games will stay the same, no bible games.
Video game priests would give sermons, including the latest game previews, reviews, hints and cheats. They would lead prayers thanking holy games designers, and conduct hymns; many are game themes featuring lyrics.
Our Bible would be “The Definitive History of Video Games”. Controversial sections include the constant Army Men games and the Fifa updates. Plus it would contain information on the gaming miracles such as Mario World, Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GTA3.
Gaming saints include: Solid Snake the Saint of Action, Mario the Saint of Platforming and Link the Saint of Adventure.
Like the various real life religions, we would see different religions and churches dedicated to Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega. Fans/worshippers would attend these different churches, say the “Church of the Nintys”, and revel in miracle man Miyamoto and wondrous gameplay of every Big N game.
We would see confession booths, where a Nintendo fan could admit to playing a Playstation game or a Sony fan admitting that Nintendo aren’t too bad (although in the “Church of the Sony Zealots”, this could be considered highly blasphemous).
Instead of having figurines of holy figures like the Virgin Mary, we would have little models of Shigeru Miyamoto. Instead of worshippers seeing tears in Mary’s eyes, we would see Shigsy twiddling his magic thumbs. Highly religious gamers might even claim to have seen a faint image of Miyamoto’s face in a cut up tomato or tealeaves.
Arcades would no longer be considered darkly lit hovels inhabited by designer clothes wearing thugs, but places to worship games. We could even take our prayer mats (possibly a mouse mat) to our desired gaming location and sit on them when playing.
At a certain time every day, gaming zealots would even face the country of origin of their favourite console, sit on their mouse mats and pray.
We aim to promote good gaming values, such as “try to finish games”, “don’t judge a game till you’ve played it”, “let people decide what console to enjoy without arguments” and most of all, “enjoy games”.
Highly dedicated gamers to this religion might even take a “vow of games playing”, where they wouldn’t break their silence or play a different game until they’ve completed their current game.
Fans could wear long smocks, cloaks or capes with games logos on them and campaign around towns and door to door, showing off their chosen console and humming & chanting video game music.
So, come the next census, put video games as your religion and we can enjoy this great past time even more, though we might be called a crazy cult.
So what if video games actually became a religion? Enter if you will, into the future and “The church of gaming”....
Many people already worship games characters like Lara Croft and the Army Men and games designers like Shigeru Miyamoto and Hideo Kojima, so why not have a religion? It would certainly give our meaningless hobby a meaning, and might even make it more respected and in time accepted.
Just because games become a religion doesn’t mean that we’ll see a market flooded with Bible cash-ins like “Apostle Party”, like Mario Party, you must select your favourite Apostle and take it in turns to progress round the board. You play many different mini-games involving “feet washing”, “turning water into wine”, “loaves & fishes”, “cure the blind” and “catch the Judas”, where you must spot the hidden traitor.
And there’ll be no Max Payne style game with you controlling an on the run Judas, escaping from angry Apostles in level upon level of biblical action.
No, the games will stay the same, no bible games.
Video game priests would give sermons, including the latest game previews, reviews, hints and cheats. They would lead prayers thanking holy games designers, and conduct hymns; many are game themes featuring lyrics.
Our Bible would be “The Definitive History of Video Games”. Controversial sections include the constant Army Men games and the Fifa updates. Plus it would contain information on the gaming miracles such as Mario World, Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and GTA3.
Gaming saints include: Solid Snake the Saint of Action, Mario the Saint of Platforming and Link the Saint of Adventure.
Like the various real life religions, we would see different religions and churches dedicated to Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega. Fans/worshippers would attend these different churches, say the “Church of the Nintys”, and revel in miracle man Miyamoto and wondrous gameplay of every Big N game.
We would see confession booths, where a Nintendo fan could admit to playing a Playstation game or a Sony fan admitting that Nintendo aren’t too bad (although in the “Church of the Sony Zealots”, this could be considered highly blasphemous).
Instead of having figurines of holy figures like the Virgin Mary, we would have little models of Shigeru Miyamoto. Instead of worshippers seeing tears in Mary’s eyes, we would see Shigsy twiddling his magic thumbs. Highly religious gamers might even claim to have seen a faint image of Miyamoto’s face in a cut up tomato or tealeaves.
Arcades would no longer be considered darkly lit hovels inhabited by designer clothes wearing thugs, but places to worship games. We could even take our prayer mats (possibly a mouse mat) to our desired gaming location and sit on them when playing.
At a certain time every day, gaming zealots would even face the country of origin of their favourite console, sit on their mouse mats and pray.
We aim to promote good gaming values, such as “try to finish games”, “don’t judge a game till you’ve played it”, “let people decide what console to enjoy without arguments” and most of all, “enjoy games”.
Highly dedicated gamers to this religion might even take a “vow of games playing”, where they wouldn’t break their silence or play a different game until they’ve completed their current game.
Fans could wear long smocks, cloaks or capes with games logos on them and campaign around towns and door to door, showing off their chosen console and humming & chanting video game music.
So, come the next census, put video games as your religion and we can enjoy this great past time even more, though we might be called a crazy cult.