When I read the class reading, ” Is Playing Video Games a “waste of time”, I read that video games are a source of literacy. I was really surprised because I never thought of video games as a literacy but, when you think of everything that is grouped together in a video game, I now understand why video games are a source of literacy. When a person plays a video game, the person has to decode meanings of things, for example, images and the gaming language. I believe that if someone can’t decode these things in a video game then the person won’t be able to play a video game. This goes for someone that is reading a book. In order to read the book, the person needs to decode meanings of words and what the book is about. Video gaming is like a domain. People who play video games understand the language and therefore understand each other. I know someone who plays video games all of the time and when I am watching him play, I am clueless about the whole thing. I don’t understand the language and he does understand the language. When playing video games there are also certain codes that a person can use to get around certain parts of the game, sometimes called cheat codes. But, in order to know about these codes, the person needs to know the language of video gaming.