Good to see that this site has some Arkanoid fans here. I'm very keen on that game. I think it develops mental skills that haven't been studied in any great depth, but which have obvious benefits. Sort of makes your brain more computer-like and efficient, while installing a multi-tasking operating system (kind of like putting stuff on the cache/CPU pipeline and then picking them up again after a certain number of clock cycles). The guy who had the best educated explanation of how this works (=CO= Windler) has unfortunately taken down his great website. I can't explain it at all well, but I remember when I had this pressured job once, and I actually enjoyed handling loads of things at once and also dealing with unexpected stuff, and was fully aware that I was using the section of my brain that I "zoned" into when playing Arkanoid/Breakout.
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