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Why Do I Love Computer Games?

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




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