| I am 22 years old. I have a very good job
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| | would have today with the advances we've
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| as a Field Engineer with a very large,
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| | made in graphical effects.
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| well-respected company. I have
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| | So what is it that makes a good game?
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| responsibility now, and I guess it's time
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| | What has kept me coming back for more
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| to start growing up. However, there is
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| | when so many other fads and hobbies have
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| one vise that I hope I will never
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| | come and gone? More importantly, why do
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| abandon, and it started back when I was
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| | so many other people not understand my
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| only a few years old. Sometime in the
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| | passion, and see it only as a waste of
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| late 1980's, my father brought home an
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| | time?
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| Apple II GS, and it came with a huge
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| | A good computer game will trick us into
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| stack of 5.25inch floppys loaded with
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| | believing the impossible, in the same way
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| some of the best entertainment I had ever
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| | that a scary movie leaves us afraid of
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| experienced. Mission Impossible, Conan,
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| | the dark. Whether we are commanding an
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| Wings of Fury, Marble Madness, Olympic
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| | army, blasting demons back to hell, or
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| Winter Games, and BounceIt were just a
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| | slashing our way through a medieval
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| few of the games that molded me into a 2D
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| | village, there is always one place that
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| gaming aficionado.
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| | we should never be...and that's sitting
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| In the mid-1990's, our family purchased a
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| | at a desk watching pixels move on a
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| computing powerhouse in the IBM Aptiva,
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| | screen. The realization that a group of
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| which sported a Pentium II processor and
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| | coders has predetermined the outcome of
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| Windows95 operating system. I still
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| | every choice we could possibly make can
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| remember trying to wrap my head around
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| | be the ultimate disillusionment to our
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| that 4 Gig hard-drive. More important
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| | electronic daydream.
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| than the computer was the game that came
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| | And why can I spend hours immersed in a
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| with it. Mechwarrior II Mercenaries was
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| | game-world. That's easy. Imagination.
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| my first 3D game, and it remains to this
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| | Those of us with strong imaginations,
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| day one of the most well-designed and
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| | those of us who played outside as kids
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| enjoyable games I have ever played. I was
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| | instead of watching TV 24/7, those of us
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| immersed in the game...I really was a
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| | who lived as Robin Hood, Batman, and Davy
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| mercenary, piloting my "beer-can of a
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| | Crocket as children have no problem
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| mech" to earn cash and salvage. The
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| | becoming Gordon Freeman (Half-Life),
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| storyline, the voice-acting, and the
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| | Master-Chief (Halo), or the Supreme
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| gameplay were so good it almost hurts me
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| | Commander (Supreme Commander) in our
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| to think of the potential such a game
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| | computer games.
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