1st Post

This blog is going to be a place where I talk about the games that I've been playing. Maybe, a little about myself is in order:

I've been playing games since the Atari 2600. I remember that some of the games were too complicated for my young and yet unrefined skills. In particular, I could never figure out how to play Ghostbusters, with that orange and blocky stay puff marshmallow man moving through the streets.

From there I moved on to a NES, then a Genesis. Sadly, I missed the whole Super Nintendo thing in my own room, but ample friends allowed me to witness its majesty. There was some time spent with a 3DO, the doomed Sega CD, N64, and every other Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo system .

Throughout my gaming adventures I developed an appreciation for the idea of the interactive narrative. Interactive in the way that the player influences the events and occasionally the plot of the world in which they are immersed in. To me, this idea meant that there was freedom to do things that one could not in the real world, be them brave, dangerous, socially inapposite or any other way that you could dream up. Most of these games did little more that allow me to hone some obscure skill in thumb dexterity, but a few, a wonderful select few, were able to move me and I believe move other gamers in the same way.

Some of these games, like Metal Gear Solid, were able to move me through the story. Through interacting with this game I became more attached to the characters in it than I would with the characters from a book or a movie. Other games presented me with new ways to think and interact thought a multiplayer experience, General Chaos was an early example of this while Left for Dead is perhaps the most prominent in my recent past.

Enough history, the point is that I consider games and interactive media to be incredibly interesting and a media that has yet to understand its full potential. This blog will be my place to put my thoughts on the industry developments in this area. Most of the time I imagine that these thoughts will look like game reviews. So, pull up a chair and read stuff.