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Not the first game I have played, but the one that got me playing a lot: Heroes of Might and Magic III. I still remember some of the factions and battles, even after all the years.

My very first game was 007 Goldeneye on the N64. I spent sooo much time playing that game haha The next game I can remember is playing COD with my half-brother on... PS1 or 2, I forget. Then Sims 3 on PC.

It was ages before I finally got me a PS4 and my first games were Life is Strange, Watch Dogs and GTA 5. I feel like I was born a gamer, to be honest. I just love games so much. Exploring new worlds, meeting cool characters and learning their stories... it's just so lovely to me. Not to mention getting to me everything under the sun! A villain, a hero, a merchant, a criminal... there's no limit to what you can be in games and I love it.

I used to play more or less D&D based computer games before the internet was even a thing. It's been so long, it's hard to remember. Names like Hero's Quest and King's Quest. One of those used to be on Mac, but I think we had an HP. Hubby was in IT & I'm sure he'd remember. I recall floppy disks, and accessing games through a command prompt. Very rudimentary gameplay, sort of like 8 bit D&D, if anyone even recalls that old video. Then I discovered BG1, and then Diablo, or it could have been the other way around. Then Diablo II, and the almost mmorpg experience of playing with strangers and online pals through Battle.net. My son bought the Seige of Dragonspear and BG2 expansion pack for my birthday, what seems like forever ago, and I played for a long time. No joy after that until Neverwinter Nights. I got very immersed in the Aurora Toolset; the game itself seemed like it was over in a minute, but the mod building went on forever. I ran a builders guild for a few years, burned out, and didn't play anything at all until BG3 came out, once again, a gift from my son. He gets his love of gaming from me. That's all I did with my spare time when he was young, and he's played everything under the sun even vaguely reminiscent of BG 1 & 2. I don't know that I'm proud of that role modeling, but at least he's a programmer, and doesn't live in my basement. Anymore.