What made you get into gaming; how did it all start?
When I was little (pre school days) we only had a 286 which my mom used for bookkeeping purposes. We had a floppy with a bunch of games on it, but nothing really special that grabbed my attention for hours at a time. I would play a couple of minutes and be done; I would rather play outside.
Then when I was in Grade 1 and my brother in Grade 3, we were in a school bus accident and he broke his leg really badly. He got a SNES from someone (or atleast I think it was an SNES, this was in 1994). It was great. We played so many games on that thing, it was fantastic! That is definitely where our love for gaming started.
We moved to PC gaming in 1997 (or atleast I think it was 97, I might be wrong) when my parents bought a Pentium 133 MHz with Windows 95 because of the whole Y2K bug scare, and my mom didn't want to lose all of her data/information. Where the SNES was great, this was amazing. We only had a demo of Diablo, but we played that demo for all it was worth. We were hooked! Quake, Doom, Blood, Age of Empires we got a hold of a bit later. We also started buying PC Format when it released, so almost all of those demo games were also played.
Those were the days. I should actually check with my brother for more details, but I know somewhere along the way we upgraded to a Pentium 2 MMX and I think there was Pentium 4 later on. We only got our own gaming PC (seperate from my moms work PC) when my brother got an Athlon PC, I think in 2001 or so.










