Welcome to my site detailing my gaming adventures since I was just but a small prepubescent child. My first experience with gaming was on an old Windows 95 computer that was still capable of accepting floppy disks. From then on I had the privilege of playing with a variety of gaming devices from consoles to computers. The gaming industry grew alongside me in adolescence and retains a strong impact on my life experiences.

I started this site as a way of holding onto my memories of gaming. As I grow older, I remember less and less of my past gaming experiences. I also have come to see gaming for what it truly was for me, a huge time waster. I played way too many hours during high school and college that should have been spent studying or learning new skills. I came to this sudden realization towards the end of college where I was struggling with time management. College courses that should not have proven too difficult still left me struggling and the courses that were expected to be difficult were draining the life out of me. To relieve stress I often spent hours gaming when I should have been carefully planning out a study routine. Post-college I found myself struggling to figure what I wanted to accomplish in life. Lo and behold when I went searching on the web for others who struggled through similar situations a lot of the males mentioned gaming being a persistent problem. I concur and agree with this statement.

That is not to say that all of gaming is a waste of time. My cousins and relatives managed to play games occasionally and enjoy life. They are perhaps better role models on how to assimilate gaming in your life without having it become an all-encompassing aspect of your social life. I also would not have met some of my best friends without consoles games. However, it is better to take everything in moderation and I am troubled by what I am witnessing today. Gaming continues to an ever growing industry that competes for the attention of today’s youth along with YouTube videos and Facebook. While the success of such a fledgling industry warms my heart (better to rub it in on adults who said that you cannot make money gaming), it also makes me worried that there are thousands of young men that increasingly devoting their lives to gaming without developing social and professional skills to support themselves.

But who am I to criticize? I still love gaming and find myself occasionally falling back into a gaming marathon. Each time different games keep coming back to make the gaming experience more interesting and fun. Like a siren song that mesmerizes passing sailors, new games and old games, with their new visuals and updates, attract me constantly. Also the huge variety of games makes it so that you’ll never get bored entirely of gaming. The thrill of building an empire in turn based games scratches my world domination itch. The fast nature of first person shooters gets my heart pumping like crazy. Real time strategy gives you satisfaction of battling with wits and economics. Story based visual novels tug at your heart strings and mind. There is just too many different types of games to appeal too many different types of people to ever really get tired of gaming. 

However that discussion is for another time. This website is mainly to scratch my historian itch towards recording all past events. I might even refer back to it decades later as a primary or secondary source.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Website Layout

I have broken down my experiences in two different ways. On the blog page, I will go into detail about the specific games that I played and the various quirks that I loved and hated about each game. On the upper navigation bar, I have made a page for each type of gaming device I own or used to own. The gaming devices are split into four categories: Personal Computer (PC), Console gaming, Handheld console, and Mobile. The computer tab will be the most robust of the categories due to my change from console peasant to PC master race over the recent decade.