Greetings MyGamers!
Name's Greg, and I am one of those really old-school gamers who has had a pixel passion for over 30 years. Yeah, I really am that old!
In the early to mid 1980s, I was in a trial group of high school students who did what they laughingly called "Computer Programming" as an additional, non-exam subject. We played with BASIC and COBOL and punchcards, and it was more of a laugh than anything else. It did help justify my first "PC" though - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which had a mind-boggling 48KB of RAM. (Not a typo!)
I bust my gaming chops on text-based DOS quest games (The Hobbit was a fav), and early DOS-driven graphical games.
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, and the original versions of Sim City, Prince Of Persia, and MS Flight Simulator were all part of the reason my Matric results were not as good as they should have been.
Since then I've gone through various stages of PC and console gaming, with frequent real-life irritations in between. My gaming interest has changed little since those early days though.
Over the years I've dabbled in, and enjoyed playing, a variety of different game genres but find myself regularly returning to the strategy, sim, space, racing, rpg, and stealth titles. (I tell everyone I let my teenage nephew beat me in COD to boost his self-confidence, but we all know I'm completely kak at FPSs!)
In no particular order, some of my all-time favorites through the years include Sim City games, Duke Nukem, F1 series, the Wing Commander series, Privateer, Football Manager, F1 Manager, Forza games, Need for Speed games, the Grand Theft Auto series, Myst series, and many others that I won't bore you with now. There isn't anything that specifically jumps out at my right now and demands to be played immediately.
Longer term though I am really looking forward to Star Citizen and its' single-player partner Squadron 42, as well as Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I have backed and follow the development of both closely. This is especially true of Star Citizen where I'm active on the SC forums, done a bit of fan-art, even set up a SC Org (with web site, Twitter account, alles!) although this is still in its birthing stage.
Having said all that, still consider myself to be a casual gamer at most, and am certainly not overly competitive nor driven to achieve 100% completion rates in the shortest possible time, find every game unlock bonus, medal, or XP point, and earn a perfect set of achievements. I play on medium difficulty settings, do not talk leet, and have no desire to top leaderboards anywhere. I play for fun, not for fame.
For the last year or so I've been considering dumping the Wii (which I told my wife we had to get "for the kid"
) and the Xbox360 and replacing them with one of the new consoles. Recently though I've decided to rather replace my trusty, but sadly aging desktop and have been getting some terrific advice from The Joker here. At least I have a better chance of justifying a new multi-use PC to the missus, than another "useless console that means I can't watch TV"
In the interim, you can find me in Lefty's Bar. Tell the doorman "Ken sent me" and he'll let you in.
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