So, this is my customary hello world post and I have decided to talk about my gaming history here. Anybody who is interested in knowing more about me would find it cool to know I guess.
I have been gaming since I was a kid, we had an Atari console at home back in those days when I was 3 or 5 or 7 or whatever. Had a couple of those back to back even when Nintendo's consoles were all the rage cuz my father put gameplay over graphics even back then and Atari was more fun for him than Nintendo and their mascot Mario.
Still, I did get a knockoff Nintendo console called Media or something afterward and several cartridges for it which I enjoyed for a few years but it was the glorious year of 1994 I think when we got ourselves an IBM personal computer as it was called in those days.
At first, it was an MS-DOS affair meaning you had a text-based Operating System tho it did run the most powerful games at the time like Doom and Prince of Persia and Commander Keen and Jazz Jackrabbit.
We updated to Windows 95 next year and got a Creative CD-Rom drive and got a ton of CDs for free with that. Most of them were "Shareware" games and software but one among them was the Adventure game King's Quest 5. Point and Click adventure games were all the rage back then as I read on the internet (sitting here in India in my puberty years, it was hard to tell what was the rage and what was not)
This game was fully voiced and had glorious musical tracks and 256 color visuals and that blew my 12 or 13-year-old self totally away. I remember my entire family sitting down for sessions of this and other adventure games like Quest for Glory and Space Quest, trying to figure out what next to do to progress the game.
Being a young rambunctious fellow, I did like em action games too of which I somehow had a steady supply somehow or the other over the next few years while I got through middle and high school.
Played so many of them from Doom to the first Fifa games to strategy games of the 90's like Red Alert and Command and Conquer. By the time I was in high school, I think I was playing through games like Half Life and Halo, somehow I got access to them all and played them all. Being in India and largely dependent on my father and select friends for my games, (I only started going out and buying CDs of games at the end of this period in High School) I did miss out on some of the classics of the era like Diablo, Baldurs Gate and the first couple of Fallout games and I really regret that. Games make the biggest impression on you when your younger and I can't help but wonder how games like Diablo and Baldurs Gate would have wowed me back then!
So anyway, this was the time I started working and took a bit of a hiatus from gaming, I only remember playing two big games during the next few years, Mass Effect 1 and Fallout 3 (I got them off our LAN pirate hub back in late 2000's) Otherwise, I mostly just fooled around with older games installed on my PC back then like Street Fighter turbo which I still play to this day as a stress buster from time to time like how some people play Minesweeper or Solitaire.
I will stop here for now and update this later...