By Steve - Especially now more than ever as I leave my twenties behind, (Russ stop laughing) I maintain that I was born too early as I’m still waiting to frolic on a hollo deck, take a day trip to a moon base or fly my own ‘Spinner’.
Okay I’ll come clean I was a 70’s child and flared trousers, Showaddywaddy and Blake’s 7 were at the technological forefront of human evolution. It’s a wonder we made it past the secret lemonade drinker.
But it does give me the ability to appreciate what we have now compared to what has boldly gone before. My very first PC had 28MB RAM, a new storage device for games called a CD ROM and a revolutionary operating system with just icons called Windows 95 and I was told it would last me for years. I’m now playing games that would have eaten that PC for breakfast one hundred times over…on my smart phone…how cool is that!
I have a passion for movies, gaming, reading, gadgets, anything Sci-Fi and more recently comics and graphic novels.
I have no shame in saying that I’ve owned Star Wars on VHS, Laser Disc, DVD, Blu-ray and will no doubt buy it again when it comes out in the special 50th anniversary holographic edition , if only to admire the attention to detail on the Millennium Falcon and a certain metal bikini.
Where gaming’s concerned it all started with Demon Driver from Tomy (YouTube it, you’ll be amazed) then Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Game & Watch and the Firefox F-7 from Grandstand. As time went by I’ve flirted with the Atari Lynx, Saga Game Gear and the Super Nintendo, then PC gaming consumed me with the likes of Syndicate Wars, Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, Privateer 2: The Darkening, HomeWorld, Comanche 3, Half-Life 2 to name but a very few and let’s not forget the ultimate devourer of lives…World of Warcraft. Which happily never made it to the Xbox 360 otherwise I would still be playing that now, rather than writing this.
The PS4 console is now my primary mode of gaming and I’m looking forward to future generations along with the exciting prospect of VR with the Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus.
This is the age of the geek and the nerds did have their revenge after all.
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