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Gaming and Me

A long time ago

Once I was a gamer. A long time ago. These days, I'm time-poor and embarrassingly bad at them.

On the plus side, I got to be a gamer at the very dawn of home computer gaming and that was a great experience. Over the years, I've played hundreds of computer games simple pong on the TV. Most of the games I've played have been for PC, with only a short break for Playstation 2 while the kids were small enough to need my help. I did get a bit of a look-in on the Wii before they took it over. These days however, I'm back to the PC because there's no chance that I'll get near their consoles.

I prefer adventure and role playing games but I'm okay with the occasional first person shooters. I really don't enjoy platform games much as I have major "jumping problems".

Since I like making lists so much, I've created some lists of games I've enjoyed - and played right to the end (something that seems quite rare these days). If you prefer a Graphical list, check out my Pinterest Board of Games I've played.

Games on the PC

Free Gaming

Free Gaming is always good. It's worth following the stores (see good websites below) as well as other stores like Epic, Origin and others because often they have free games as incentives.

This section however, is about open source and free games which are permanently free.

Good Websites to Get Games

I buy games PC from;


Games on other Platforms


Playstation

The Playstation is not my platform of choice but it was my first "modern" console. I didn't upgrade because Sony didn't support backward compatibility.

XBox

I got the XBox for the kids and I've never spent more than about 10 minutes on it. I like the platform and the concept (especially compatibility).

Eventually I'll play something on it.

Nintendo

I got the switch for my birthday one year and played a bit on it before the kids got old enough to take it. I also got a DS for the bus, for a while.

Android and Mobile

It makes sense that Mobile is the next frontier but I've been too busy to play games on there. This page is more of a history tour.