Soldato
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I've noticed this has been the topic of a few popular gaming pod-casts over the last few weeks, I find this topic very interesting and would like to pose the same question to my fellow 'gamers' on here, why is it you play games?, what got you into gaming in the first place?
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Personally I don't think it was ever really about playing games for me, or the actual mechanics or story's contained within the games themselves, games to me just seem to be an easily accessible vessel for a virtual experience in today's world, one that helps me escape from the mundane, I could happily wonder around a virtual world for hours at a time without any objectives or goals, if it was interesting that is, but then I suppose that's why the goals and objectives exist there in the first place, to make that virtual world interesting, but do we really need that?, tbh I'd rather make my own entertainment in the world rather than it telling me what to do or where to go, I think it's one of the reasons why I find Nobby Nobby Boy quite an interesting 'experiment', as it doesn't really have any real objectives.
What got me interested in computers (and games) was the possibilities, they seemed endless, I remember when my dad for the first time ever showed me a game on his Spectrum, it was Beach-Head, he was a keen electronic and programming hobbyist, it was a popular trend that the UK seemed to of embraced at the time and one that I'll always have fond memory's of, I remember looking at that screen and thinking wow, it was like seeing magic, one minute your staring out of your bedroom window seeing the same old world that's been there since you were born, the same sparrows eating from the nut basket, the same beaten up shed in the corner of the garden, the same trees that slowly turned different shades of green and golden brown throughout the seasons......, generally speaking I found reality quite boring at a very early age.
And then one day I was introduced to a new window, a window that was really a box with a glass front and a tuning dial on the side, it was hooked up to a little 48k Spectrum and an old fashioned Amstrad cassette recorder, suddenly I was introduced to a new world, a world that wasn't boring any more, even waiting for the games to load I found it mesmerising, the hypnotic coloured lines that danced to the sound of the erratic Morse code that came from the tape machine, it was almost like it was teasing me as line by line a picture slowly appeared on the loading screen, my eyes would light up knowing that it was nearly time to taste a new experience in the form of a virtual world, it was this that kept me coming back, and as soon as the 'high' from these experiences began to subside there was always new innovations and machines that would be on the horizon, offering better 'virtual worlds' with more colours, more sounds, more pixels, it was a never ending cycle and it's one that still continues in my life today.
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Personally I don't think it was ever really about playing games for me, or the actual mechanics or story's contained within the games themselves, games to me just seem to be an easily accessible vessel for a virtual experience in today's world, one that helps me escape from the mundane, I could happily wonder around a virtual world for hours at a time without any objectives or goals, if it was interesting that is, but then I suppose that's why the goals and objectives exist there in the first place, to make that virtual world interesting, but do we really need that?, tbh I'd rather make my own entertainment in the world rather than it telling me what to do or where to go, I think it's one of the reasons why I find Nobby Nobby Boy quite an interesting 'experiment', as it doesn't really have any real objectives.
What got me interested in computers (and games) was the possibilities, they seemed endless, I remember when my dad for the first time ever showed me a game on his Spectrum, it was Beach-Head, he was a keen electronic and programming hobbyist, it was a popular trend that the UK seemed to of embraced at the time and one that I'll always have fond memory's of, I remember looking at that screen and thinking wow, it was like seeing magic, one minute your staring out of your bedroom window seeing the same old world that's been there since you were born, the same sparrows eating from the nut basket, the same beaten up shed in the corner of the garden, the same trees that slowly turned different shades of green and golden brown throughout the seasons......, generally speaking I found reality quite boring at a very early age.
And then one day I was introduced to a new window, a window that was really a box with a glass front and a tuning dial on the side, it was hooked up to a little 48k Spectrum and an old fashioned Amstrad cassette recorder, suddenly I was introduced to a new world, a world that wasn't boring any more, even waiting for the games to load I found it mesmerising, the hypnotic coloured lines that danced to the sound of the erratic Morse code that came from the tape machine, it was almost like it was teasing me as line by line a picture slowly appeared on the loading screen, my eyes would light up knowing that it was nearly time to taste a new experience in the form of a virtual world, it was this that kept me coming back, and as soon as the 'high' from these experiences began to subside there was always new innovations and machines that would be on the horizon, offering better 'virtual worlds' with more colours, more sounds, more pixels, it was a never ending cycle and it's one that still continues in my life today.
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