Gaming vomit

My first gaming memory was playing the original Duke Nukem side-scroller on DOS my dad had borrowed off a work colleague. I remember begging him to set it up so i could play as i went into a trance watching all the colours and the lights i can't remember if i was any good at it and if i had'nt played it again recently, still good btw, i could'nt even tell you what any of the enemies looked like I just remember watching this man with blonde hair jumping around the screen the primitive 'w00p' from the pc speaker just increasing my trance-like state. Until one day when he 'accidently deleted it' although i still maintain he purposely did it because it was possibly affecting my school work - well look what im doing now H0H0 ironies...

I also have memories of the original Aladdin, before you could play it you had to input a random code from this huge code book, i never ever got past the second level though those monkeys on the second level where something else oh my yes. I have memories of various other games around that time but the order in which i first played them is muddled these includeded Missile Command, Doom and Worms.

I remember getting a megadrive, me and my sister spending hours playing sonic2 she was Tails i was Sonic racing each other to the finish or playing Micro Machines V2 learning every track oh and Dr Robotnik's mean bean machine - clearly a Puzzle Bobble rip off it was still fun especially when you triggered lots of beans. After that it was a Gameboy, several variations later im now considering replacing my imported original DS 'phatty' with a sleek Lite but anywho first gameboy game i had was Super Mario 6 golden coins and get this i've never owned or played tetris, pretty scary eh?

The first game i bought was the original Quake, i think i was about 12 at the time just walked in and bought it, truly those were the glory days before you got all this sensationalist media blaming games for all societies downfalls. If Doom before it triggered my interest for first person shooters Quake cemented it and my love for all things ID. I can still remember my next door neighbour, being more than a bit of a delicate flower, watching as i dodged zombies hurling there own rotting flesh at me before gibbing a shabmler in the most visceral way this side of any 80's gore flick, she then ran outside and threw up on our frontstep - truly if games could do that i thought it was worth sticking around to see what else i could play to make her throw up quite so much again

So did i really keep playing games as a conduit to watch children younger than me throw up? Well not entirely, games have always intrigued me like a less cocky film industry games are literally interactive stories wrapped in something unique to games - gameplay not restrained by money or audience interest or books linear one-dimensional, you read/watch it once you've already seen all it has to offer but with games its different you can decide where to go and what to do, its a cliche to say people like being in control but its one of the reasons im still playing. Ever increasing technology is also another reason while i continue playing each new release be it a console or graphics card or even new rendering technique brings the zenith of ultra realistic visuals ever closer to the player

After that i heavily uh 'invested my time' in fps games, playing everything from unreal tournament to Half life everything was an open book with no means of analysing there quality i jumped jumped from game to game before settling on the ones i liked. I've played so many FPS games its more a case of finding out the ones i haven't played. I've only ever owned 3 consoles megadrive, PS1 and gamecube but i've upgraded my PC countless times and can still remember my first graphics card, tnt2 woo! with the fan the size of a postage stamp nowadays there the same size as the card and seem to make more noise than a hoover ah well thats progress i guess.

Im currently playing through oblivion - still and Quake 3 - again, looking forward to Bioshock, Assasins Creed and any info on ID's new game