My Gaming History
by Alex
Dear Readers,
Before I start writing about the current games I’m interested in, I feel I should provide a background history of my gaming experiences. The first game I ever played at around age 10 or so was a shareware version of Tetris for the Macintosh (FYI shareware refers to a free version of software open to the public). I would battle with my younger sister to get to the highest possible score. Needless to say I kept the high-score table filled with lists of my names and previous scores I’d received in the past. Tetris placated my gaming appetite for a while but I soon found it lacking. That is when I moved over to console games.
The first console I ever owned was a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) with a copy of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past bundled with the purchase. This game included the missing aspects I so desired. It had action, adventure, a story line, dungeons with bosses, upgradeable weapons, and lots of side adventures to go along with it. This encompasses some of the basic requirements for a Role Playing Game (RPG). I enjoyed this game immensely and from time to time will pull it out just to play it again though I have long since completed nearly every aspect of the game. I soon dove into other console games for the SNES such as Super Star Wars – Return of the Jedi, Donkey Kong, and many others. These games kept me satisfied for a while as well but I soon hungered for more. At this time I would return to the computer but on PCs.
I did have the chance at one time to play Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, but I never got to play through it fully. The first strategy game I ever got to experience full hand was Starcraft. It was similar to Warcraft but allowed you to accumulate a much larger army. Also the battles were against technologically advanced races rather than against races which utilized magic and medieval weapons such as swords and arrows. At the same time, I became interested in first-person-shooters (FPS). The initial FPS game I played for the PC was called Half-Life. In Single-Player, you play as Gordon Freeman who is part of a science experiment gone completely wrong. It opens a gate of a sort allowing thousands of hostile creatures to enter our world and you as Gordon must drive them back. In the games Multi-Player, you pitted yourself against other opponents in various environments. What was really wonderful about this game though is you could alter the game play with different mods developed either by the original company or by a third-party. Team Fortress Classic was one of my favorites. Two teams went head to head against each other in different map scenarios. One such scenario was capture-the-flag. Each team would try to take the other team’s flag back to the base while at the same time preventing the opposing team from doing the same. The game gave each team different classes to use in order to achieve their goal. For example, the Scout is the fastest class available allowing it to run through areas and avoid being shot at easily. However this class had very minimal armor thus making it an easy class to kill.
From that time on, I continued to play those genres of games, upgrading my consoles and PC as the games became more advanced. I now own a PS2 and 3 and a Nintendo Wii along with a Dell XPS M1730 laptop. I own a variety of different games such as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Half-Life 2 original and Episodes 1 and 2, and Assassins Creed. Two years ago about I introduced myself to a new game called World of Warcraft (WoW). I had played Warcraft III and I was interested in seeing the continuation of the story. The game was so amazing that I’ve continued to play it to this day. Nearly all of my gaming time is spent on WoW.
So this is my brief gaming history to the present day. I still play some other games besides WoW such as Team Fortress 2. In my next article about gaming I’ll be discussing some of the aspects about WoW that I enjoy as well as some of the dislikes. Thanks for reading and I look forward to seeing your comments.
August 6, 2009
Posted in: Gaming
Tags: AS, gaming, life
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