Tibbycat
11-16-2004, 03:57 AM
Hi everyone. This place looks interesting and with this being my first post, I thought I’d give a brief history of me and ‘puter games.
It all started as a child back in the 80s. My father showed me a game on an Apple IIe computer that we had and instantly I was hooked. To me it was another way to use my imagination, have fun, and explore the world. Much like any other form of art such as music, film, literature, etc etc. In my teens I became somewhat of a hardcore gamer. I read many computer magazines often and played multiple games on various systems by myself or with a few close friends. I marvelled at the poetic depth of Ultima 7 and delighted in deathmatch games of Doom 2 with my friends. I was convinced that I was going to be a computer journalist or a game designer upon leaving high school. Ambitious eh? Well, neither of those happened.
In my final year of school, having got access to the internet, I became a addicted to a MUD. It was all consuming as I became sucked in and I eventually gave up on it and gaming entirely. It felt too much like work instead of fun. Also, I was always fairly introverted and the only gamer friends I knew were male and thus became terrified at the prospect of turning into the clichéd male gamer stereotype. So the original Playstation would be the last console system I’d own and after I finished Final Fantasy 8 on it around the time of giving up on the MUD, I gave up on gaming for good and found other hobbies where I met other people. Female people too.
A few years later now, I’ve found myself having a return to the gaming fold. A large number of my female friends now happen to be gamers, and I think this website goes to show that you don’t have to be a stereotype to enjoy ‘puter games. Why just the other day in a department store I saw four rather attractive and non game stereotyped looking girls gushing over a demo of Halo 2.
So, here I am now, joining a forum of gamers who’ve made me see again that being a gamer isn’t about lumping yourself into a predefined misconceived box. Nor I can see now, is gaming necessarily a solitary hobby as I once thought. So once we get broadband finally in the next month, maybe it’ll be time to buy a new console system. The idea of playing online with others and even being able to speak to them at the same time sounds like a good idea.
See ya round http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
It all started as a child back in the 80s. My father showed me a game on an Apple IIe computer that we had and instantly I was hooked. To me it was another way to use my imagination, have fun, and explore the world. Much like any other form of art such as music, film, literature, etc etc. In my teens I became somewhat of a hardcore gamer. I read many computer magazines often and played multiple games on various systems by myself or with a few close friends. I marvelled at the poetic depth of Ultima 7 and delighted in deathmatch games of Doom 2 with my friends. I was convinced that I was going to be a computer journalist or a game designer upon leaving high school. Ambitious eh? Well, neither of those happened.
In my final year of school, having got access to the internet, I became a addicted to a MUD. It was all consuming as I became sucked in and I eventually gave up on it and gaming entirely. It felt too much like work instead of fun. Also, I was always fairly introverted and the only gamer friends I knew were male and thus became terrified at the prospect of turning into the clichéd male gamer stereotype. So the original Playstation would be the last console system I’d own and after I finished Final Fantasy 8 on it around the time of giving up on the MUD, I gave up on gaming for good and found other hobbies where I met other people. Female people too.
A few years later now, I’ve found myself having a return to the gaming fold. A large number of my female friends now happen to be gamers, and I think this website goes to show that you don’t have to be a stereotype to enjoy ‘puter games. Why just the other day in a department store I saw four rather attractive and non game stereotyped looking girls gushing over a demo of Halo 2.
So, here I am now, joining a forum of gamers who’ve made me see again that being a gamer isn’t about lumping yourself into a predefined misconceived box. Nor I can see now, is gaming necessarily a solitary hobby as I once thought. So once we get broadband finally in the next month, maybe it’ll be time to buy a new console system. The idea of playing online with others and even being able to speak to them at the same time sounds like a good idea.
See ya round http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif