My Gaming History
» December 12, 2011 · Jason Bassett · First Person Shooters, Games, Old School, Personal, Platforming, Role Player Games, Social Games, Uncategorized » no responses
I have been talking about games for the longest time. I can’t remember a time where I wasn’t a gamer. I began my gaming around the age of 4 years old. I had just missed the Atari generation and was on the NES as my first video game console. I remember being a big fan of TMNT 2: The Arcade Game. It was an awesome game that combined two elements. Action packed gameplay…and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Of course, the main arcade game was better when you played at the arcade. The thing about the NES version was, was the fact that you can fight in more areas and against more areas.
Back to the point. I wasn’t a big gamer at first. When I was young, I used to play some Mario and mostly sports games. I wasn’t the Chrono Trigger or Zelda type when I was younger. It might have been due to the fact that I was younger and didn’t understand those games or it was just a lack of interest. Back then, I was more of a sports gamer. I loved playing Baseball and Basketball games back in those days and a lot of the arcade games that would migrate to the consoles like NBA Jam or NFL Blitz. When people think of video games today, they would think of games like Call of Duty, Final Fantasy or the Legend of Zelda. Back then, I would think video games was just a way to digitally play the sports I couldn’t play during the winter months due to snow or school.
When I got a bit older, I got into more video games like Zelda with Ocarina of Time being the first Zelda game that I have ever beaten. I had played the original Zelda on the Nintendo, but I didn’t know what I was doing and was really young at the time. Ocarina of Time was probably the best game I had ever played at the point and was the game that cemented me as a gamer and went on to play a lot more of a Gamers Game like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy IX and X, Conker’s Bad Fur Day and even Tetris, which is now today’s casual game.
Another type of game that I consider to be a gamer’s game was the Nintendo 64 wrestling games. This will probably be disputed by the people that I know, but I always said that wrestling games are one of the best examples of a gamer’s game that you can play. Sure, it definitely seems like product placement, but wrestling games were very good back in those days and even today. If you were a fan of the sport (sport is obviously disputed as wrestling is now known as Sports Entertainment) then the games were just as much fun as you could book matches you would like to see and if you jack the difficulty up, you could really get a feel on how tough a wrestling game could be and it was really fun, even during the frustrating times.
At this point, I was heading into high school, I was milling around with my love for wrestling and games. To this day, I cannot go without both things and some times is tough to switch between the two things and manage other aspects of life. It’s then that I decided that video games had become something that I have loved longer than wrestling and one of the aspects of my life that I wanted to continue throughout and after games like Grand Theft Auto, Halo and Call of Duty came into my life, I had decided that I wanted to be in the video game industry. The video game industry is a great industry. A casual industry that is based on creativity and social interaction. It has created games like Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Sonic the Hedgehog and of course, the greatest game of all time (my opinion) The Legend of Zelda. But, this is not to mention the current great games that have appeared over the years: Uncharted, Gears of War, Call of Duty and Assassins Creed. These are gamers game that would find back in the day. They are rich in features and gameplay, they have great storylines that gets the player pumped to move onto the next part of the game, that part of the game is the multiplayer.
The multiplayer is now a huge part of why I play games now. The social interaction with Xbox Live and PC games is the main reason why I keep coming back to games. I love to play with my friends from my own living room and when they are in their own living room. It’s fun to play against or even with people that share the same love for a game and have fun in general. This is why I love the video game industry. My favorite multiplayer game is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Back in it’s day, it was one of the funnest and feature rich multiplayer games that was available on the Xbox and PC. Today, we are playing Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 and other great multiplayer games that are all rivals, but all of them are great to play and fun.
My gaming history has seen it’s ups and downs. I love platforming games. I love First-Person Shooters to RPG’s to music games. I love games and what they have given me. My time as a gamer will always take me to new places and my hope is that I can contribute any contribution that I can to help the next generation of gamers have the same experiences that I have had in the past.
