I have been playing games since I had my first Commodore 64 (I actually got a second from my grandmother when the processor on my first one melted) and I have continued to play mostly computer-based games since. My fondest memories involve lying to my parents. "Sorry mom, I went for the job interview and they're just not interested. I guess I'll just have to spend my summer in my room wearing boxers playing Police Quest, Space Quest, King's Quest, and any other damn game with quest in the title for days and days without sleep eating only when absolutely necessary using one hand freeing my other for typing." If only I knew there were so many others as disturbed as I was.
I was (and still am) an only child. I was a badly behaved kid and I assume that's why my parents only had me. Naturally, with no other kids in the house to play with, games were my primary source of fun. My Commodore saw lots of Summer and Winter Games (including sequels), Battlechess, Choplifter, Grand Prix 2, Pitfall, Spy Hunter, and who knows what else I'm forgetting. I even forced my friends to play Monopoly on my machine rather than break out the board game in arm's reach.
I moved on to a Pentium 2 DX100 but not before my father, in his infinite wisdom, asked my entire family to chip in and buy me both an NES and Sega Master System. I was the coolest kid in school for about 5 months. No one else had both at the same time - they had both just come out.
It occurred to me that word processors were replacing secretaries and robotic arms were replacing our entire national manufacturing workforce. Soon (ok, maybe not that soon), manual labor would be extinct and all that would be left for humans to do would be to live in the world of their choosing, through interactive games, learning, socializing, and realizing distinct, custom worlds for everyone.
I really am that idealistic and optimistic about the future of technology and games. Living a fantasy is becoming more and more real. See you in the Matrix - I'll be the stealthy-spy-cop-superhero-Don
-Juan type character named Sluggo, the Eight Year Old Pound Machine.
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