Degradation of Trad. Games

INTRODUCTION Games are commonly played by children for them to have fun and of course, to enjoy and cherish their childhood days. In Philippines, a few decades ago, kids used to gather in the streets or in their neighborhood playground to play their favorite Larong Pinoy games like piko, patintero, taguan, tumbang preso, luksong tinik, etc. Due to limited resources of toys of Filipino children, they usually play using native materials or instruments. Filipino kids usually come up on inventing games without the need of anything but the players themselves. With the flexibility of a real human to think and act makes the game more interesting and challenging. In these games, Filipinos makes a lot of interaction with peers, friends, relatives, and just other people in general. And one of those ways of interacting, or form of socializing in their country was through Philippine games. These has been their regular and popular pastimes, these games are not just for children but as well as the favorite games of their parents and grandparents until new and modern forms of entertainment has taken over the interests of young kids. High technology is commonly known as the cutting edge of the society: the most advanced technology available. It describes the newest, “hottest” applications of technology to fields such as computers. “High tech” initially referred to technologies that were geared to meet the information needs of the society, as opposed to the material needs of heavy industry. In the modern time, people invent things for themselves to be more productive and less time consuming on the works they are doing every day. With lack of time to have fun and play, experts invented games which when people, especially children, play effortless. Sometimes, people use machines to do their works and to finish it on time not just like in the past generations, people exert too much effort for them to conduct and finish their works. As computer and video games have increased