Back to the future!

Welcome back to the next installment of my blog... This week (I know I'm behind) I'm going to discuss my personal gaming history and where it all started for me and what i personally believe to be the "history" of gaming and how it first came to be.

Christmas '94. My first console a Sega Mega Drive II complete with Sonic the Hedgehog and few other games I cant really remember but there was one game that was 3 in 1 which included football, driving and some sort of arcade game. Anyway to me at the time was amazing, i was hooked and this was where my love for games was born. soon I bought more games (well i say bought i mean asked for because i was only 8 or 9 at the time I think). Those titles included Streets of Rage, more sonic titles, Eco the dolphin, the lion king, Road Rash. The titles go on however I still played them for years, I also managed to hold onto my Sega for a few years a few its demise until the Sony PlayStation arrived.

Along with the arrival of the Sony PS1 at the time was the Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 (N64). I soon got rid of my Sega Mega Drive (to this day i wish i didn't) and a PS1 was another Xmas/Bday present from my parents. Problem I'm having at the moment is remembering what exact titles i had for it, however at the time i also remember spending most of my time around my friends house playing on his N64 and playing Golden Eye, Turok and Duke Nukem. Abit later on in my life PC gaming was soon introduced and Personal Computers and Home computers (same thing) were becoming the in thing. Soon my parents bought a PC (Pentium 1, 133MHz some sort of poor low spec ram and hard drive) I soon was the only person in the house that used the computer and i only used it for games, same went for most of my friends at the time as well, most either ditched their consoles and played on the computers. I remember playing which at the time was my favourite game and still sorta is because that haven't really done anything along the same lines was Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels. At the time i spent hours and hours playing this game and i was also a huge fan of the whole War Hammer 40k scene. PC gaming soon became my prefers platform to play on and until today i still play games using a PC. Up until this November where i purchased my first console since my PS1, a Xbox 360 Elite along with Halo 3, Gears of War and my personal Favourite Call of Duty 4.

So there, there is a brief background in what i used to play on and what i still play on now I'm at uni.