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I guarantee you I know the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 maps so well that I could draw you a hand sketched replicas of Favela, Terminal, and whatever other map you can think of. I also able to recite the music facts on Rock Band loading screens verbatim. Does this mean I’m spending way too much time playing video games? Maybe, but if executed properly video games could benefit society’s education.

I’m going to estimate that the average gamer plays around 3-4 hours of video games a day. For a least a half hour of those few hours we are either sitting in matchmaking lobbies or staring at load screens. What if instead of giving gameplay tips during these brief interludes educational facts relating to the game in some way were inserted.

For instance, Call of Duty matchmaking lobbies would have a scrolling ticker displaying historical facts pertaining to whatever time period the war is taking place. Facts regarding number of casualties, weapons technology, world leaders, and important political issues going on during that era would be good examples. The facts would benefit gamers educationally without the information feeling force fed.

This formula could be expanded across every genre of game. Racing games could have physics facts explaining the formulas for calculating speed splashed across their load screens. Fighting games could do the same with tips on how to improve ones health and fitness. Exercises could be worked in as well. Science fiction based games could shed light on black holes, space technology, and recent advancements in space travel.

Intellectual load screens wouldn’t raise the national IQ by anything astonishing, but in any case it’s at least doing more than the current state of affairs. If nothing else, maybe it would keep the video game naysayers off our backs for a little while.


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Yes, great idea. This could help ease the heat towards video games, not very much, but every little bit counts.

Never played Civ 4 :( I always thought it looked good though! And I’ve read a bunch of the Mass Effect codex until I realized that I could spend an entire day reading Mass Effect codex and decided to cut back haha

Don’t you read the Mass Effect Codex or listen to Leonard Nemoy tell you all about life in Civ 4? D:

If I recall, the History Channel has actually made some games, though as I can tell, only about the Civil War.

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