Wired on Game Bosses

Boingboing points to a good article on Wired.com about game bosses and how they are the culmination of the gaming experience and how you "rarely" get anything like it in real life.

Gaming is exactly that, my friend, and you know it. Escape from reality. Make us all fee like heros in a mundane world where our only real climatic experiences include things like having babies and getting married.

I mean, come on...where are the guns and the zombies!