My History with Gaming

I was introduced to the world of gaming at a very young age by my parents. They loved (they still do but I'm trying to keep the tenses pointing in the same direction) to play a wide variety of games. They were not socialites however, and didn't have very many friends who shared the same passion. Therefore they did what any normal gamers would, they created two gamers to play with them!

All joking aside, that is one of the reasons that my parents brought me and my sister into the world. The number of kids were carefully thought out as well (two); most board or card games are best played with four people. This should give you an idea of what it was like to grow up with my family.

Early on board games were the only games available (besides the card games, but we didn't play many of those because my family is horrible at betting. I mean, with fake money I bet more than 10, and everybody else is moaning and groaning about how I'm ruining the game, and then they all fold. But I digress...) to us, so we played them a lot. Monopoly, the Farming Game, Risk, Backgammon, Mahjongg. The list goes on and on. We may have thrown more games away than most families ever play in their lives.

Not only did we play these games, but we respected them. Most of them had lots of small pieces, delicate boards, and often were works of art themselves. My parents taught us kids to treat the games and all of their parts with care, to never lose any pieces. When friends would come over to play they games, they would be amazed at the idea that young children would be so careful with the 'adult' games.

It was this reverence towards games that shaped my future, in a way. When my family purchased a computer, we all experimented with video games. And for my sister and my Dad, they were something to play with for a few years, and then go back to the old ways. But for my Mom and myself, the computer stuck. It even worked its way into my real life. I became a systems administrator, somebody who fixes the computers that I learned how to use by playing so many games on them.

I don't have a 'type' of game that I play. I enjoy them all. But there are certain genre's that I tend to gravitate towards. And I always have a main go-to game that I play if I'm not sure of what to do.

Happy gaming