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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.

This is from around about time I blabber about seeing Star Wars in the theaters originally. There was a game console called Atari, like the NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C, D, 2600, 5200, or 7200.

It came with Combat, a 2-person tank game. This was fine but was already getting tired by the third day. Off to the TV store we went to buy a new one. Adventure it is!

Moving my square about into new zones searching for treasure, suddenly this yellow dragon image zooms straight at me! OH MY GOD, never seen that before in any game. I'm not just going around, active creatures are actively seeking me out. To eat me! Hairs on my neck stood up, I was terrified!

It's hard to imagine what a sea shift that was vs. What Came Before.

Reading about King's Quest and Space Quest brings back so many great memories! I think those were the first games I really played start to finish and also my introduction to "modern" fantasy. My screen back then was monochrome and the retrofitted 20MB hard drive was larger and louder than a mini PC these days. There was some part of King's Quest III at which I got stuck before climbing down the cliff, so I think I finished King's Quest IV first. Prince of Persia was also amazing. Arac and the Arachnidroid comes to my mind as well. I dropped out of our local gaming scene when everybody moved on to 286ers, so I sat out some classics, but Eye of the Beholder II & III, the Commander Keen and Indiana Jones series, and Beneath A Steel Sky were a huge thing for me back then. A friend also used to bring his PS1, so we could play Diablo together, which we already filled with head-canon and role-playing, such as never getting Griswold's name right.