multiplayer game, video game console The scene opens up with a helicopter view of Laguna Seca sitting below. It is another beautiful day in California as the digital sunshine moves from the air to a shot, which pulls back through the qualifying grid. The likes of a race modified BMW M3s, Audio RS4s and Porsche GT3s of all colors in the rainbow pass by until getting to me, sitting in a ocean blue Lexus IS-F waiting in the eighth chalk lined box. The screen then pulls into the cockpit view of my car. Above the vehicles rumbling back and forth ahead of me are greener gamertags spelling out multiplayer game names like RaptorBoy86, Iceman34 and Lunatic101.

I bring the headset over my ear and tell Iceman34 he had better watch out because I’m gunning for him. He laughs and answers with some joke about my mom. It is all in good multiplayer game fun. This is why I keep coming back to the video game console almost every day after work. There is camaraderie here mixed with competition. I will never meet or know what the countless voices on the multiplayer games played each day look like but it doesn’t make it any less fun.

Today’s video game console has created a community of people from different walks of life some rich, some poor, some American and some from far off corners of the globe who all share the love for online multiplayer games. The red light drops to green and I hammer the controller trigger acting as gas.

Iceman34 is too heavy on the pedal and burns out putting my bumper right behind his. He knows what is coming in the quickly advancing 40 MPH right hand corner. I’m not braking until he does. The brakes lights illuminate and my car smacks into his. He has no move here. I’m putting his car in the dirt. What I didn’t see was the guy behind. He too smacks me and all three of us careen off track. This has just become a race for tenth place. If it wasn’t for online retailers like Bolluck Mall at http://www.bolluckmall.com/ the stack of games sitting to the left of my video game console wouldn’t be there.

Online shopping keeps me up to date with multiplayer games and as you can tell, I love it. It is one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. I can spend whatever a new game costs and it pretty much gets used until the disc goes kaput. Where else can you find that kind of entertainment value?