Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Here my story

Lung
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Ok; here?s my story ?
I think I?m the oldest gamer here. I?m in my mid 60s and have been playing games since my beginning. I am originally from N.Y., spent 20+ years in Vermont and currently live in Florida with my wife, dog and 2 cats. I have been a property insurance adjuster most of my life. I like to fish and play golf but my heart has always belonged to gaming. I have a Playstation II and 2 computers. One of the computers has Windows98 on it so I can play some of the early PC games like Colonization and Sim Farm. My other computer is an Alienware WindowsXP hot rod.
As a kid I played with the original Erector Set, Lincoln Logs and Pick-Up-Stix. I made up my own games with my Lionel and HO trains that involved timetables for passenger and freight stops along my line(s). When slot cars came out I built drag strips and road courses in my attic and basement and hosted races with my friends.
In my early teens I played card games (War, Knucks and yes Old Maid) and board games. I got into Chess and put in MANY hours at a Chess display table in the Macy?s toy department in Roosevelt Field Long Island, N.Y. The store manager let me play anyone who challenged me and for as long as I wanted as it attracted people to the toy department and probably help his sales.
In my 20s I played board games Monopoly, Gettysburg, and Stratego but also played a lot of sports; Baseball, Football, and Soccer.
In my 30s I moved up to Risk, PanzerBlitz and PanzerLeader. I then played them by Play-by-Mail but as soon as possible I started with the electronic games; Intellivision, Nintendo (Donkey Kong anyone), Pong, Missile Command, you name it.
Around this time I realized I was losing control and was becoming addicted to games in general. I liked war games the most and found myself mostly playing WWII type games. Ever hear of Global Supremacy? A Play-by-Mail war game that I got so interested in throughout my 40s that I bought a franchise from the author, started a game company and GameMastered my own Global Supremacy games. Of course I still had time for PC games such as Zork. I don?t know where I found the time to get into R/C boats, planes and cars. I still run my gas powered R/C 10GT from time to time.
In my 50s I went over the edge with gaming; The Jagged Alliance series took over my attention and to this day I believe it is the best war game ever produced. WHY don?t they come out with Jagged Alliance 3? Of course Civ I & III, Capitalism, Sim everything, Pirates, Industry Giant, and Steel Panthers are still on my hard-drive somewhere.
I could go on and on with the list of games I liked to play (an asset of being 60+ years old) but this Darkwind is a breath of fresh air. It is the 1st MMO that I have ever liked. I found DW in a Games for Windows magazine listing Free Games but when I checked it out I was hooked into subscribership immediately. Now all I have to do is learn how to deal with the pesky NPCs.
Enough about me already; I?m going racing.

......................... vet
Posted Feb 10, 2008, 4:10 am

pweelg
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Nice to meet you Lung.

For your info there is a Jagged 3 interview on IGN.com

......................... vet combatL1 raceL1 wv
Posted Feb 11, 2008, 12:03 pm