The City High Video Game Club is slowly beginning to formulate plans to go big.

They want to set up a big gaming event against West High. To prepare, they would choose a game and practice on it for a set amount of time before the competition. Eventually, they want to try to go nation wide. Like many members of the club, Atrill Salazar, ’17 has high hopes.

“I want it to become a competition. Where we go against West, smash bashing action, probably go with a certain game, like competition gaming; make it a sport.”

He want on to say his thoughts about if it ends up not going this route.

“If it doesn’t go that route, I can really see video games club as a place to meet up and play games. If people who don’t have systems at their house or the more modern systems, they come here, they play a game, test it out a little, and get a little juice of what it’s like. For people who’ve never played games before, this is the club to come too,” Salazar said. “People start playing video games and get the experience of fun, meet new people, have a large diversity of games- from rpgs first person shooters, and everything else.”

Video game club means more to the players than just a place to hang and play games. To many club members it has a feeling of fellowship, a sense of community, and so much more. For Salazar, it is his world.

“It means life. It means everything to me. I mean, you make friends, you play games that you’ve never played before, and you play from all types of systems, from the good and the bad,” Salazar. “It’s something that really shows you what games can do, what games can draw together. Friendship, honor, and integrity.”