The Unusual Allure Of Parking Games

In real life, parking is at best something you don't think about and at worst

, a real pain, particularly in crowded parking lots, or when you have to parallel park on a busy street. But in the world of computer parking, things are much more exciting, and parking games have multiplied rapidly in number for the past several years. Some people play parking games in an attempt to wrap their minds around the intricacies of real-world parking and improve their actual parking skills. Others just play for fun. After all, if you mess up and hit someone's car in a computer game, you can just shake it off and try again.

The dizzying selection of available parking games contains countless variations on parking techniques, with different designs, skill levels, and parking tasks. You can choose introductory level parking, or more advanced parking. Like many games, you start at Level 1 and work your way up, as the game becomes more challenging.

Car games for some reason have a particular appeal for boys, and parking games are no exception. If you have a boy who will be learning to drive for real, then a parking game may actually be an educational option, because it presents an increasingly difficult level of parking challenges, just like real world parking. These games also teach the skill and patience that are sometimes required for parking - skills a lot of boys would do well to master!

But these games aren't just for kids. Lots of adults like them too. After all, not everyone learns to drive at age 16. Sometimes older adults have to learn to drive, and playing these games can get them into the right mindset and help them understand all the little details that go on all around them whenever they're in a driving or parking situation.

For those who are up to the challenge, there are also games for parking big rigs. These are a lot harder to park in real life, and they're more challenging on a computer too. Parking an 18-wheeler takes some real skill, and many of these games give players an overview of everything that's going on around the truck when they're trying to park. This is a situation where you can practice, make as many mistakes as you want, and learn from them without inflicting any real world damage.

You can find games for just about any parking scenario you can come up with. There's even one called Violet Parking Dinosaurs in which you park a Fred Flintstone-esque car while coping with dinosaurs during prehistoric times. Bombay Taxi is a multi-player parking game, and it is quite a challenge! Parking Zone is a game that requires some mental logic: you drive cars to their allotted parking zones, and click on them to cross an empty bridge. But you cannot move a car that's not connected to an empty zone, so you have to be able to think ahead and plan, somewhat like you do in chess.

Parking games are fun for people because they take what is an everyday situation and turn it into a game. And some of the skills learned in parking games (dinosaurs notwithstanding) are real skills that drivers need in real life.

by: John Trodey

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