Long before I had any knowledge of this so called "Console War", I was introduced to the good times of video games. My first personal experience was with the stand alone pong game from Atari. I remember playing for hours at a time with my sister. One simple game, as pong was the entire system, that you never really seemed to grow tired of. From there, I moved on to the Atari 2600. My Atari was special because I managed somehow, to break the on/off stick. Being the inspiration for the future MacGyver, I used one of my elastic belts and an erasable pen. I bit the eraser off, stuck the pen where the switch was, and wrapped the belt around the system which allowed me to turn it on and off. I just had to hope that no one bumped it while I played. There was a number of titles which passed my time on the 2600. Pitfall, the never ending adventure. I'm sure anyone who has played it remembers running for what seemed forever to the left, only to turn around and do the same to the right, yet never finding the end. Asteroids, where I eventually got to the point where I could max out my score 3 times without dying. Bezerk, which no one seems to remember but me, where that damn smiley face just ruined your whole day. Mario Bros with those flies. Combat and Missile Command for my military fix. Defender, Centipede, Burgertime, and many others which I will not list now. The Atari years passed, and I moved on to the NES. The pleasure of watching my mother try to play Super Mario Bros. She never used super speed and tried to hit every block. Needless to say, she ran out of time more than she finished a level. Tecmo Bowl, one of the greatest football games of all times, even with the unstoppable Jerry Rice slant pattern. Metal Gear, which all of my friends said was so hard, yet I beat it during a 2 day rental while staying with my grandparents in Savannah, GA. The Castlevania series. Don't you townsfolk realize that I'm trying to save you from Dracula? Why are you telling me to get out of town? Simon's Quest was the first game I used the help hotline for. Who really would have thought to neal in front of that damn wall so that a tornado would come lift you to the top? Blaster Master, which you had to play all the way through in one sitting. Metroid. Enough said. Pro Wrestling, Excite Bike, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Top Gun, Kid Icarus, Contra, Life Force, Ironsword, those damn cheating Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man games, and tons of other fun games. After the NES period, I went with the Sega Genesis. I'd have to say my favorites there were Flashback(check the avatar), Coach K's College Basketball, College Football USA, Joe Montana 94, Greatest Heavyweights, which I still feel is one of the best boxing games out. Desert and Jungle Strike were much better than Airwolf to me. Madden and NHL up until 93. Of course there was Sonic, which my mom had ample time struggling with just the same as Mario. Exit Genesis, enter Playstation. What did I rock on the PS1? Tenchu 1 and 2, which I wish would advance with the times. The newer ones feel dated. Syphon Filter series, which I believe has led to my love of Splinter Cell today. Parasite Eve 1 and 2. Another series which I wish would be brought back today. Overblood with that little robot that helped you out while you tried to remember who the hell you were. Heck, I even bought the X-Files game. X-Men Mutant Academy, Fear Effect, NCAA Gamebreaker and NFL Gameday. They actually used to be good back in the day. After a while the Playstation got traded in, and the Dreamcast took it's place. The Dreamcast, the great system with the crappy support. Shenmue, when will you make an appearance on my 360? Soulcalibur. Don't give me Maxi or Kilik, or it's trouble for you. NFL & NBA 2K, the beginning of greatness. If only Sega had the money to hang around, who knows what may have graced us. At this point in my life, pretty much all of my close buddies had PS2s. The fact that I was roommates with 2 of them led me to go with the Xbox. I recall wasting so much money trying to find a good football game at first, after which 2K was released on the system. Halo brought some fun moments for me and my girlfriend at the times' son. Very good game, just not the be all end all some make it out to be. My favorite series, Splinter Cell was born. I'd have to say Chaos theory is the best right now, but I'm looking forward to the 360 exclusive Conviction. Jade Empire and Elder Scrolls: Morrowind got me into the RPG stage, as well as KOTOR. The fact that Jade wasn't turn based and incorporated martial arts made a huge difference for me. With Morrowind, it was the freedom to play it however you wished. I would just steal things and randomly hit guards. Fable was good, albeit slightly disappointing based on so many things being left out. I would have liked to see how BC would have turned out, and I'm still waiting for Deus Ex to be done on the 360. Ninja Gaiden proved that it could still be one of the most frustrating games out there. Now we are in the next gen, and I can't wait to see where it takes us. As of right now, I own the Xbox 360 and the Wii. Perhaps soon the PS3 will enter my game room, but for now I wait. Thank you to any of you who take the time to read this. Hopefully, some of you have had a long history of good times as well.
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Sony will require UK players to verify their age to keep using PlayStation messages and voice chat later this year.
Such a BS law is this honestly, very poorly thought out and far too broadly applied.
So it's to 'protect children' from harmful content in messages, yet they can continue to play multiplayer regardless, where they will hear worse, they can even hear worse stuff in the street and school playground FFS lol
Well, they can't regulate schoolyard talk or the streets of London, so this is probably the next best thing.
I don't agree with it, though it's exactly the sort of tweak around the edges politicians would make to have it seem like they're doing something.
About as effective as "protecting women's sports" in the US that literally targets 4-5 trans athletes nationally: you *could* do that... But why would you do that.
Both cases are just prudish politics for deeply unserious people.
And I bet when you get your account banned they try and take the access to your digital purchases away
Hopefully you'll take this as simple, constructive comment, and use it for your following Blogs/submissions mate . . .
I tried reading your entry, but just couldn't maintain focus past several lines . .You see, the human eye, when viewing things on the net, needs to have a rest, and can really only manage several lines of text at best in one go . . . Paragraphs and small paragrapghs at that help the reader scan through the contents to see if they wish to investthe time in reading it further.
If there's just one huge block of text, they "usually" skim right past it, and move on to the next . . . I used to do the same thing, large blocks of text etc, early on in the game . . . . but I then did a little research into how we read the net compaired to reading printed media . . It is quite different.
Try breaking up your text into the paragraphs with each new thought, like you would in a conversation, it'll help readers stay longer, and hopefully pass comments which will help you with you Profile score as well . . . I'm a lousy speller, but I find I need space to express my thoughts, so longer posts are my 'norm" . . . Many people onthenet find long post "boring" or "rants" . . . when in fact, all it is is someone wanting to share information and thoughts with other like minded people, or gamers in this case. Justlike you are trying to do here. ~;-)
Keep up the good work mate, and have a look through some well managed sites that dish out news, and you'll see how the other writers lay their thoughts on the net . . . Hope that helps a little, it's not meant to be a critisism as such, just some hopefully helpful hints . . . .
Cheers . . .