new to 2old2play
hello all,
just came across this site a mere half hour ago and i'm glad i did! i can't wait to get acquainted.
ok, so i got an atari 2600 when i was like, 6, and played the crap out of games like demon attack, yars revenge, grand prix, asteroids, adventure, combat, river raid, pitfall, raiders of the lost ark, E.T (angrily), warlords.
then in the late 80's i got my NES. SMB3, battletoads, megaman, ninja gaiden, castelvania, RC pro am, zelda. i still have all the games, and my NES works fine.
then came SNES. still have that, and still use it with super castlevania, super metroid, R-type, zelda, FF3 (one of my all time favs). rented a bunch of games, own a bunch of games.
Then 9/9/95 hit, and i was one of the first to own a PS1. one of the best moments is gaming history was when the dogs jumped through the window in ResEvil. i played that game in the dark, with surround sound. i still get tweaked just thinking about it. FF7, who can say more? sure, my PS1 original had its load issues ( FF7 was a nightmare, all 70 hours worth, turning it up, down, left, right, just to get the damn discs to load). i traded some of my original games in back then, but i still have a number of old school big-box cases with the foam inserts. doom, tomb raider, ridge racer, twisted metal
still have my n64, dreamcast. dunno what happened to my genesis, though. boo!
I got a PC in 98, and played some games. love sim city. Quake was a big one. however, in trying the online aspect, i got frustrated real fast, being i wasn't a good pc gamer, and jerks with too much time on their hands would kill me at my spawn point (before i knew what a spawn point was), and i dropped online gaming. i figured i'd never be good enough to compete.
after that, i kinda fell into a lull. i played my existing games and systems, but seemed uninterested in the next generation. i even passed along my PS2 pre-sale receipt to someone i worked with, not even a close friend. i eventually got an xbox, and while i have some cool games, i haven't beat any of them (except jade empire, and SW:KNTOR 1+2)
then in feb of 08, a buddy decided to trade in his xbox360 for a PS3, and sold me his system and games for the trade-in value, and i got the system, a headset, GRAW2, forza2, PGR3, TR:legend, RS:vegas and Halo3. i played my games, and didn't bother with online. then i decided to use my free trial to at least see whats going on. this was december of last year.
then i rented Left4Dead. WOW! online gaming is actually fun! i now have an xbox live account, and a gamefly account. the future is wide open!
so now here i am, a casual gamer with a renewed interest in finding some fun with online play. and then comes along 2old2play. i plan to come and check out the forums once in a while, meet some new people, and perhaps find a few friends to work through halo3 on legendary, or a few races on forza. halo wars comes out soon, that should be fun.