Gaming, yeah, I like that too

Posted on March 26th, 2007 by GregPC.
Categories: Technology, Gaming.

One of the things that I enjoy but haven’t written about is gaming.  When I was a kid my family had an early TO computer that used audio tape for storage.  We had a few games for that Q-bert was one, and there was some moon thing too I think.  A few of my friends had Atari too and that was all pretty cool.

I got the original Nintendo in 1986 or 87 (whatever year Zelda came out) and played it religiously for many years.  I started playing computer games in the early 90s and did that for a long time too.

In 2003 though, things began to change.  I was given an Xbox as part of a project at work.  It was a real hardship, but I had to play for a few hours every day and write a report on my impressions.  That experience - combined with the ongoing headache of upgrading my PC - led me to play more and more on the console and less and less on the PC.

This past December the Xbox finally gave up the ghost and it was replaced with an Xbox 360.  I’m not the only gamer in the house anymore and so share the system with my kids.  I still love it as much as ever and really enjoy playing with them, as well as with other people online.

This past Saturday night I had a rare and wonderful online experience.  I was looking for a coop game of Rainbow Six Vegas and fell in with three people that felt really comfortable to play with.  I’m 40 and am too old to take any of this very seriously but I don’t suck either.  The group I was playing with were doing well and having fun.  It was good and refreshing and a reminder of just how good a good game can be.

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