My Gaming History!

Doom 3

My gaming history?! Well this is going back a long long time! It all started roughly when I was about 2. Well actually, I’m not 100% sure about that, since there's a home video of my dancing to the game, not actually playing it! But let's say I was introduced to games that young! I always used to watch my Dad and Brother play games. Because of my parents divorce my Dad had custody of me and my Brother. Even when my Dad was young he used to play “Pong” with his Brother! That was his first gaming experience to my Dad, so when me, my Dad and Brother all lived under the same roof, the gaming influence travelled to my Brother and finally took capture of me! As I got the older the idea of gaming was amazing, something like never before. I used to watch my Brother and Dad intently when they played, and when I grew I was able to race my Dad and Brother in matches (mainly racing games to begin with such as “Gran Turismo”). As I started to get older I used to watch my Dad play games such as “Quake” or “Doom 3”. As soon as I was able to take control of the controller games became my life. Became me. I became games. It took over my heart and souls, mind and body and from then I was hooked and a serious gamer. Games are my best friend, and have never been separated since I danced in front of the computer to “Arthur”.

Pandemonium

Spyro

So what did I play on, well to start with PC was a big influence since my Dad is the PC gamer. I did play “My Little Pony” on the PC and I managed to finally play “Arthur”. However, when my Dad decided to get a PS1 I instantly fell in love with that little machine! I couldn't put it down, I refused dinner or ate my dinner really quickly just so I could play on the PS1. I also remember getting my Nan to play on the PS1. She was pretty good! I never fully appreciated the machine as much as I should so.... “I LOVE YOU PS1”. OK all good now! What did I play on the PS1? I remember “Pandemonium”, “Spyro”, “Crash Bandicoot” and more but I really cannot remember. It's really upsetting when you can't remember what you played back in the day! I would ask my Dad but even he never remembers what I played! He can't even remember the time I was born?! But I love that man! He was the one who bought my games, bought my consoles. He fed me the craving I held, just to play. Is it an obsession where you crave the feel of holding the controller and playing things you never thought were possible! The wonders of the crazy world of Crash and the legend of a purple cute dragon! Who would not enjoy that?!

I was behind on the consoles when I was younger. Because PS1 came out when I was born I only started playing it when I was 5/6 and for a couple of years I played on the PS1. PS2 came out in 2000 and I was about 5/6 years old but didn't start playing PS2 until I was around 8 years old. This is where I go to PS2! Now this era of Playstation really pushed my into gaming. The most visual memories I have of the PS2 is “Jak and Daxter”. The series of “Jak and Daxter” was incredible and I even bought them again on PS3 when the re modified it for the HD collection I just couldn't get enough! I remember I never completed the first “Jak and Daxter”. I got lost and couldn't defeat any boss levels! The concept and design of that game is so beautiful that I actually lived off that game! I never really took in the fully beauty of that game. I was so passionate about that game, that I even bought “Jak 2”, never completed the game and then bought “Jak 3” and finally managed to complete it! Because the games had a year or so difference when they were released as I grew more intelligent to games I managed to complete the last one (with a little bit of difficulty) but it was well worth it! I have played many games on the PS2, many such as “Crash” again from the PS1 and “Spyro”, but also “Gran Turismo” and the AMAZING “Need For Speed” franchise! The “Need For Speed” games really took a hold of me. I used to compete against my Dad, my Brother, Step Brothers, Nan and Stepmum! It was one to play with everyone! Without a doubt! My favourite game from that series was “Need For Speed: Most Wanted”. That one was my favourite by far! But one of the ones I mainly played with my Dad was “SSX Tricky”. Now that game was something! To have slopes like that is insane! To pull of tricks like some crazy ass running man on the board flip round your neck and in between your legs and strap in to land! Do that in real life and you can pretty much count serious injury or death! But because it's such a simple idea, just slopes and snow and some stunts to turn into some crazy ass do as many tricks as possible with 30 seconds of air is amazing! It's so unreal and so real at the same time that it was just addictive. Both me and my Dad were addicted to it! We used to race till it was my bed time for a good 3 hour gaming session straight! It will always be a classic and one I will ALWAYS go back to! After a while as I got older, my Dad me her partner now who had two sons which also played on the PS2! This is how I got into “GTA”. But I never played any of the others, the one I played and the best one out of ALL of them is “GTA: San Andreas”! Now that game was something. The tattoos, gym, clothes, hairstyle the crazy ass fly a plane onto a freeway game plane was insane! I admit, I did go to strip clubs and have sex with prostitutes but that was mainly cause my stepbrother told me to do, it wasn't funny at the time to me, but he enjoyed scaring me. The fact that the cops would chase after you if you accidentally bumped into them but when you run around with a rocket launcher and your standing next to them, they don't do anything! Absolute classic!

But onto Xbox! Yes I had an Xbox before I went back to Playstation! But in all honesty I can not really remember what I played on the Xbox all I remember is going through lots of them and ending up in buying a PS3. But there is one game in particular! ONE GAME! That was “Blue Dragon”. “Blue Dragon” is a fantasy Japanese game in which I adored. The game was very advanced for me and I didn't truly understand what to do (this is when I got the strategy guide). “Blue Dragon” was based on a group of friends who's Shadows change into monsters that help them! The Shadows fight for them and the characters do the same actions as the shadows. The main character has a shadow of a Blue Dragon, others had beasts such as dogs, bulls, rabbits I think and many others! That was a game I loved and before I could ask my Mum to save it she got rid of the Xbox and the game along with the strategy guide. Now that was a SAD SAD DAY!

Blue Dragon! Amazing!

After we got rid of the Xbox, we invested in a PS3! Now the PS3 is my favourite console. I've tried getting along with the Xbox interface and homepage and what not but that really doesn't cut it for me. I am in love with the PS3. Because my Dad is in favour of the PS3 he found it a good investment since he was part of it (I wont say no more)! But it played Blu Ray DVDs which our family started buying because we had a Blu Ray DVD player. It had BBC Iplayer, 4OD and LoveFilm. Now since my Dad is a subscriber to LoveFilm and LoveFilm joined Playstation this was a massive advantage for me, and that is how I managed to see basically every horror film LoveFilm had to offer me, minus a few which I shall never watch! But the quality was so so much better within games! But what games have I played on PS3. Because PS3 has been with my teens I know and remember more games than I did back when I started playing the PS1. But the games that I have played have ranged between genres and titles and series and what not! It's varied between the series of “Call of Duty” to “Uncharted” and even when “Jak and Daxter” were re-done for HD. It's involved “Assassins Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations and 3”, “Elder Scrolls”, “Fallout”, “Bioshock”, “Mortal Kombat”, “Mass Effect”, “Darkness”, “Fear” and many more single games such as “Split Second” and “Bulletstorm”. Some of the series have varied between PC and PS3 such as the “FEAR” series and “Fallout”. They've all been incredible games to play! I have games that I love playing but have never been my particular favourite! Games now bring something new everytime!

Jak



Daxter

Bulletstorm

PC has also been something I play games on! These games have varied between the classic “Doom 3” and “Quake” as well as “The Orange Box: Half Life 2”, “Portal”, “The Sims” and the almighty “Crysis”. Now Crysis that is a game I love on the PC. I have played the “Crysis” games at least twice or more! The first “Crysis” was beautiful! My Dad had to re-do his computer so he could just run “Crysis”! It was an intense game and he wanted to play it! I wanted to play it and in-between homework and his TV time I was playing it! “Crysis Warhead” appeared and that was so much fun too! But then out popped “Crysis 2”, I was in love and so sad.. I liked Nomad :(! But I had to keep playing it on the PC, it was one game I just couldn't switch over to PS3! It just wasn't possible! I had to upgrade my computer just for it to work! Everything was so beautiful and so REAL it didn't look real! It was surreal. Something I adored and admired, I guess that's why I played it so much!

Crysis 2

But as you can tell I have been a gamer all my life and from writing this only I have just realized now how much my life has been dominated by games and there magic! It's something I’ll never stop doing! No matter how much I notice how everything is made out of boxes and cylinders, and spheres I will still love them forever! I'm going to enjoy taking games to a new level and give another child somewhere out there the love that I had for games and hopefully they can spire to be like me! My children will be gamers! I can pretty much write that in stone! Anyone can be a gamer, no matter what gender, or what race you are you can play games! It's for everyone and I don't want to limit my imagination to just playing games, it's creating the games that I am looking forward to! As well as buying my own games and playing them! A gamer now, is a gamer for life, and that is me!

Skyrim!