I am a retired High School teacher who has been a gamer for years. Like you, I taught history, economics, and geography for 40 years. My students were surprised that I play video games on both the PS and xbox but it seemed to connect and gave us some to talk about and compare.FlashCharge

Nice! Yeah having something in your back pocket to talk about during those down times in class is really a nice thing to have!

Well, so far I've played through Bioshock and the original Gears of War in my short lived 360 career. I'm thinking about getting Oblivion here sometime during the holiday season. Are there any others that are can't miss older games, and by older I mean not $59.99, ha. I'm really into story quite a bit in games, and with that, games that can stick with you even after you are done playing, anything like that?

Samslayer

Hi all,

I was just wondering if there are any teachers out there that play 360, or games at all. Obviously, I wouldn't think that a video game community would be tearing the seems with teachers, but it was a good shot!

I teach high school Civics, World History, Problems of Democracy, and Geography.

It's a storm day today that's why I'm asking at this time, because I'm bored!

Samslayer

Get different sources of media, video games and books. Twilight series is pretty popular these days, kids hopefully would get more out of reading than video games. Even though I really like video games....

One day we will laugh at blu-ray as we laughed at beta ma and laser disks.Temtamperu

Man laser disk's rocked, haha. Could you imagine if gaming would have went towards laser disks, we'd all have record collections of games:)

I would really say any Sega System Genesis and after. I had a Saturn and a Dreamcast and they were great systems. Out of those two I would have to say that the DC is bar far much less under appreciated. The Saturn is a close second however, even though I had a lot of problems with my Saturn.