So I should probably do a little introduction to my video gaming experience and collection before I get into reviewing. My first experience with video games that I can remember was playing my cousin's NES. I was probably only 4 or 5 at the time, and the majority of gaming on the NES back then consisted of trying to shoot the dog on Duck Hunt for laughing at me when I missed. My first experience with gaming at my own house was when my parents bought me a MS-DOS based Tandy computer in 1990. I had a pretty extensive library of MS-DOS games back then, including: Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders, Q-Bert, Tetris, and a golfing game with primitive voice sounds called "World Class Leaderboard."
My first console was the Super Nintendo, and I got mine when it launched in the U.S. in 1991. That was essentially the start of my console gaming experience, and it also means that I'm probably slightly Nintendo-biased when reviewing games/consoles. Over the years though, I've definitely come to really like the Sega systems from the era as well.
I'm partial to 2D shooters as far as genres go. I really like shoot 'em ups, or SHMUPS as they are sometimes called. I like simulation games (however not so much the Sims, think more like the tycoon games). My love of strategy games also tends to focus me to being a PC gamer more than anything, but I do also enjoy playing consoles. Here is a quick list of the gaming consoles that I own:
-Atari 2600
-NES
-Sega Genesis
-Game Boy
-Super Nintendo
-NEO GEO CD-ROM
-Sega Saturn
-Sony Playstation
-Nintendo 64
-Game Boy Color
-Sega Dreamcast
-Sony Playstation 2
-Game Boy Advance
-Nintendo GameCube
-Game Boy Advance SP
-Microsoft XBOX 360
-Nintendo Wii
-Sony Playstation 3
-Sony Playstation Portable (PSP)
-Nintendo DS
-Nintendo Wii U
-Nintendo 3DS
-New Nintendo 3DS
-Microsoft XBOX One
I think that pretty much covers my list of consoles. Hopefully I should post my first review/rant on gaming this weekend sometime. I'll try to include whether or not it's a rant or a review in the title. Also I plan to do retro and new games, so I'll try to change it up from post to post. Well, hopefully a post will be showing up here again soon, so stay tuned!
