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andrewducker) wrote2005-05-02 08:56 pm
andrewducker) wrote2005-05-02 08:56 pm
Some answers - part one - Where my love of games comes from.
My love of games started with my parents, who introduced me to board games (Snakes & Ladders, Draughts, Reversi, Chess, Monopoly and Risk spring immediately to mind), which I played fairly frequently as a child. We also played card games a lot - Whist and Rummy being the most common ones - with excursions into Bridge when I got a little older (I'm far too excitable a Bridge player, with a tendency to overbid).
Somewhere around the age of 9 I saw an advert on the back of a comic for The Awful Green Things From Outer Space which, although I never managed to actually track down and play a copy, led me to my local games shop, where I bought a copy of Dungeons and Dragons (from the look of the pictures on this page the 8th-11th printing). I had _no_ idea what was going on, having never even heard of roleplaying games before, but I knew that whatever it was was extremely exciting. Luckily about a year later I encountered someone else who _had_ played before and could tell me how you actually _played_ this marvel I'd discovered (Roman Serafinowski was his name - I'm astounded I can still remember it). I distinctly remember the thrill of visiting him - travelling by train by myself for the first time ever - and gaming in his room halfway up a block of flats (the first time I'd ever been in a flat too).
Anyway, I progressed from there, still sticking with D&D, but picking up more bits and pieces until I had a fair stack of rules-books and modules for it, running games for the next 7-odd years until I left for university - always for my two brothers and a few friends of theirs (not having any gaming friends of my own at that point). At which point I went to university, wheremy world exploded. Suddenly I had quite a few friends who gamed (in fact, damn near all of them, as I'd colonised the gaming group). My second year was when Vampire was first released, and there was a game running on a constant basis, _at least_ 8 hours a day for the next 9 months. People dropped out of it to go to lectures or (occasionally) work on essays, but it was always there, with a rotating group of players.
That group also introduced me to Cthulhu, Mage, Kult, Ars Magica, Warhammer and a host of other RPGs, as well as a variety of boardgames. And it's still the bits and pieces of that gaming group I play with (as well as my brother Hugh, thus taking me back to my near-original gaming group), as I'm now based a mere 30 miles away from there.
Wow. You have _no_ idea how wierd it was remembering the feeling when I first read a D&D manual.
Somewhere around the age of 9 I saw an advert on the back of a comic for The Awful Green Things From Outer Space which, although I never managed to actually track down and play a copy, led me to my local games shop, where I bought a copy of Dungeons and Dragons (from the look of the pictures on this page the 8th-11th printing). I had _no_ idea what was going on, having never even heard of roleplaying games before, but I knew that whatever it was was extremely exciting. Luckily about a year later I encountered someone else who _had_ played before and could tell me how you actually _played_ this marvel I'd discovered (Roman Serafinowski was his name - I'm astounded I can still remember it). I distinctly remember the thrill of visiting him - travelling by train by myself for the first time ever - and gaming in his room halfway up a block of flats (the first time I'd ever been in a flat too).
Anyway, I progressed from there, still sticking with D&D, but picking up more bits and pieces until I had a fair stack of rules-books and modules for it, running games for the next 7-odd years until I left for university - always for my two brothers and a few friends of theirs (not having any gaming friends of my own at that point). At which point I went to university, wheremy world exploded. Suddenly I had quite a few friends who gamed (in fact, damn near all of them, as I'd colonised the gaming group). My second year was when Vampire was first released, and there was a game running on a constant basis, _at least_ 8 hours a day for the next 9 months. People dropped out of it to go to lectures or (occasionally) work on essays, but it was always there, with a rotating group of players.
That group also introduced me to Cthulhu, Mage, Kult, Ars Magica, Warhammer and a host of other RPGs, as well as a variety of boardgames. And it's still the bits and pieces of that gaming group I play with (as well as my brother Hugh, thus taking me back to my near-original gaming group), as I'm now based a mere 30 miles away from there.
Wow. You have _no_ idea how wierd it was remembering the feeling when I first read a D&D manual.
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Started with pong, believe it or not. As in a console that _just_ played Pong. Then Battle Chess, which would allow you to play Chess, or Chess with Lasers. Then I played with a friends Atari (as in the original console - which my mum onced clocked Space Invaders on). Then my parents bought a BBC B - which meant we got to play the very original Elite! From there we moved to an Atari ST - Populous was the most amazing thing ever. Then onto PCs. My machine was too slow for Doom, I used to try playing it in a postage-stamp sized window and it was _still_ too slow. But then I moved up to a 486 abd that kicked ass.
FPS games are my favourites, but I've played RTS and a wide variety of other games, from text adventure to platform games and everything in between.
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So there.
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