I wouldn’t call myself much of a gamer. In fact, I rarely play them. But on the other hand I do love games, and in general they’ve always been an interest of mine.

So, what’s holding me back from actually playing a game? Well, mostly time shortage because of work, me being able to amuse myself just fine by browsing the internet and then there’s the fact that I really don’t have a decent ‘gaming rig’ (which is gamer lingo for ‘device that is able to play games’).

I was born and raised to be a PC gamer. Mostly because my parents never bothered to buy me a console or even a gameboy when I was little. We did, however, have our own PC. My father had to do work at home, so we needed to have one. Apparently, I already used it when I was about three years old. And remember: this was 1990, we didn’t even had Windows then, let alone a screen capable of showing more than two colours.

I played a game called Leisure Suit Larry once when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Now if you know this game, you might start to wonder what the hell was wrong with my parents. You see, Leisure Suit Larry was basically a game about a guy looking for a hookup to have sex. I was completely oblivious though about the goal of the game. I just saw a little pixel guy walking around in colourful, yet sometimes weird environments. Oh, and you couldn’t cross the street. I remembered that, cause you’ll get run over by a car…
I don’t think the game actually hurt or traumatized me in any way, mainly because I never got the point where something ‘bad’ actually happened. And I think I liked another game called California Games much better…

Anyway, I digress. Years passed by and new PC’s came and went. My brother got his own brand new PC once with one of the first Pentium 4 processors. Mostly because he had a slightly larger interest in games than me, so all I got was my mothers old Pentium III PC. Then again, he’s still using that thing at this very day, while I’m using a relatively new laptop with a Core 2 Duo in it. So I’m far beyond the point of jealousy at the moment. ;-)

My Pentium III has been gone for years now, and I have been working on laptops ever since. I needed a laptop for school. And I liked the fact that I can carry it around to wherever I like. It’s anything but a gaming rig though.

So, how do I play games now? Well, I’ll save that for a post tomorrow. Goodnight!