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Hi, I'm Mummelmann.

I started gaming on a Commodore 64 and a NES around 1989, Megaman, Mario, Duck Hunt, Spy Hunter (Commodore) and other classics were my portal into gaming. I started playing on the PC in the early 90's, arguably the best era yet for PC gaming. Games like Warcraft, Lands of Lore, Betrayal at Krondor, Dune, Ultima Underworld and other incredible titles paved the way for an interest in deeper games.

RPG's are without a doubt my favourite and has been for a long time but I also enjoy good FPS games and racers. The latter two have to have something to offer though, Half-Life and Gran Turismo series are the perfect examples for me, they are deep and engaging and have incredibly well balanced and fun gameplay and the both revolutionized their respective genres.

Sometimes, I can simply sit down and enjoy silly fun as well, like Burnout, Need for Speed or Doom.

In the RPG world, I'm most fond of epic titles like Baldur's Gate (I have a soft-spot for D&D games since childhood), Neverwinter Nights and good old fashioned dungeon crawlers. Some of my favourite RPG titles are as follows;

Betrayal at Krondor, Baldur's Gate I and II, Icewind Dale I and II, Neverwinter Nights I and II, Stone Prophet, Lands of Lore, Ultima Underworld, The Witcher I and II, Temple of Elemental Evil, Risen, Gothic I, II and III, Might & Magic VII and VIII, Sacred, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Final Fantasy VII, X and XII and a lot more.

Those of you who have been here a while know that I'm not fond of the general direction gaming has taken lately, things are getting simplified and diluted for the sake of broad appeal and this is slowly choking especially the RTS, TBS, FPS and RPG genres. I can enjoy mindless things myself on occassion but I hardly want it to become the norm for an entire industry. Games have too much to offer as a medium to end up as trashy entertainment gloss for the Michael Bay fan club devotees in my opinion.

Anyway, I currently own a good gaming PC (obviously) which gives me 99% of my gaming needs (again, obviously), a PS3 and a 360. I have owned/have in storage a NES, N64, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Sega Megadrive, Atari Lynx (my only handheld through the years), PS1, PS2 and some that I don't know where are...

Good initiative on the OP's part, this site has turned into an off-topic site before all and we don't spend nearly enough time talking about games like we used to.