Well I thought maybe it was time to make a blog on this site with my past games,from where it all started and maybe where it will end...
I started gamming at around 8 years old(now 36),yep I begged my parents for a ZX81 till I was blue in the face and had alot of fun with hogger etc,after that it was the Atari 2600 and this is where it all took off.
The countless hours on The empire strikes back,Ice hockey,the smurfs,even the combat game that came with the console had me hooked...I mean so many options like invisible tanks.
Though my 1st real love came in the shape of a ZX spectrum,It was my friend that had 1 at 1st but wasnt long till I had 1 at my bedside,we would play Hyper sports and Skool daze until either his mum kicked me out or my mum kicked him out,then came Jet Set Willy and Attic Attack etc etc,then there was no getting us to go home .....we were hooked.
I grew up but never lost my love for games,I cant remember ever not having some sort of console/computer in my bedroom in all those years,I went through the Amiga,master system,megadrive,saturn,playstation,etc etc.
Now I know we are in a new generation where everything has to be bigger and better but sometimes it makes me wonder how the young guys of today would have faired today with the systems we had 20 years ago?
The thing that got me started on this was the whole AoC DX10 wasnt in the game,even now they are testing it and people complain,also things like the upcomming Aion where some will say "the graphics arent my style"
I never heard anyone say that the graphics were not there style back in the day,it was always about the fun.
I know some might say things have moved on and so expectations rise but surely the 1st thing about a game has to be the fun aspect?
Back in the day playing the like's of attic attack there was no MMO/great graphics but games like that paved the way for the games we enjoy today and for good reason.
If we were as hard back then as we are today I wonder how the gamming industry would have reacted,or indeed gave up and moved on to other things...
Just my thoughts on how we act these days to games and how it may indeed affect the future for gamming as a whole.
