User Blog:
My Personal Gaming History

As a child growing up in the 90’s I was exposed to an abundance of computer games, and witnessed the advent of the home pc from a machine that could just about handle Doom (with sounds from the Aliens movie of course, more on that later) to silicone monsters that can devour even the most next-gen of games. Consoles too have marched steadily on in their quest for ever more slick graphics, from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the Playstation 3, and show no signs of stopping. I’ve watched this march of technology as I’ve grown up, and it fascinates me now to look back and relive some of the classics that shaped my journey through the age of the videogame.

 Starting at the beginning I would have to say that the first game I can remember playing was Doom. My Dad had his own computer which he would always be tinkering with, and I can remember watching him playing this insane shooting game with shotguns, chainguns and rocket launchers... Basically everything that a young boy wishes to find in his stocking on Christmas morning. When he let me play it I would be glued to it, blasting the Hell (oh snap, bad pun) out of all sorts of horrible things. Doom became a truely iconic game for me when my Dad loaded sound clips from James Cameron’s Aliens movie, my absolute favourite movie when I was a child; I didn’t know it at the time, but I had just been exposed to my first ever ‘mod’.

                                                        
                                                                                                How is this NOT awesome?!