Introduction

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!

Video Games

So today I was thinking, instead of just writing random stuff, I'm going to start blogging about video games.  Video games are something that I've always been kind of passionate about, and my plan is to start writing reviews and other random thoughts related to gaming on here. So my plan is write entries, hopefully no more than two weeks in between, about memories and reviews.

So stay tuned, depending on the popularity, I might make the entries more and more frequent.