I've had three or four stages in my gaming life. The first one was when I was a kid and my friends had an Atari. I remember having a blast playing:
Combat,
Asteroids,
Space Invaders
and Pacman.
Games didn't need a story back then. I had an Intellivision system, which was kind of hardcore for the time (it had a lot of butons, they even needed a plastic card for every game so you can remember the right ones to press). A great game for that system was
Pitfall (from Activision)
The rest of my childhood I was kept away from videogames by my mother who thinks that those things can make you stupid, so I spent the golden age of Nintendo gameless. Later, I became a teenager and I only gamed in Arcades and sometimes I rented a System N64 over a long weekend with my brother. When I was in my 20's I started to work and over the office I played on the PC:
Doom
and Duke Nukem
And a little later on strategy games like
Civilization
and Age of Empires
And some flight combat simulators
When I started to make my own money and I was like halfway of my college studies I bought my first console: a Playstation.
the Resident Evil series
The Final Fantasy series
The Gran Turismo series
Then I got serious about life, you know, I tried to be an adult, so I devoted my time and money to finish my college studies and make a career, find the right girl, getting married and having a family. Fortunately, my wife was and is the right one (she loves games, racing and non violent). So together we built our first PC and we enjoyed:
The Sims and The Sims 2
Need for Speed Underground
Diablo I and II
GTA IV San Andrea's
Finally we bought a Nintendo Wii so we can play sometimes with our 5 years old kid. These are the games we loved:
The Lego series (Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman)
The Rayman and Rabbids series (They are hilarious)
Wii Sports (It is awesome to play with kids and grandparents)
The Guitar Hero series (I got the plastic guitar for her)
Games I loved for me only on the Wii:
Super Mario Galaxy: Mario at his best. It's out of this world.
The Legend of Zelda the Twilight Princess:
Playing this game I knew I made the right decision with the Nintendo Wii. For me, this game is the best Zelda ever. When I played I understood why the series was so praised. I also played OoT later and found it meh, but that's another story.
Resident Evil 4: what else can I say. It is awesome.
And some other games like this two last games which were ports of the previous generation, like Tomb Raider Anniversary, Bully, the shooters that work really better on the Wii.
But eventually I realized that I needed more. That's why I bought my 360.
Gears of War I and II. (I don't know why but they remind me of Doom... the adictive feeling...)
Modern Warfare 1 and 2 (I really like the realism of them, the war location, the story)
The Orange Box (A quality shooter with a good story. I haven't started Portal but I will get to it)
Forza 2 and 3 (I how I miss my Gran Turismo... I may still buy a PS2 and play GT3 and GT4. Anyway, the Forza series made me enjoy racing again)
And Oblivion (I played Fable 2 before and I thought it was cool, but next to Oblivion it now looks shallow, and it is not, it is just that Oblivion is huge!)
That's it. Games that made me go wow! I hope somebody enjoyed this, I know I did, but I apologize if I got a little too long, anecdotic and autobiographic. Sorry. But looking back meant a lot to me. Good times...
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