In a years time

Hey guys

 

It dawned on me earlier today that in a years time I will have been doing some kind of gaming for 20 years. That to me is just insane because it makes me sound like I have had like a huge experience in gaming - like job amount of experience, but not haha.

 

I started gaming at around six, hear me out, we had Commander Keen on MS DOS and Wolfenstein. Granted Wolfenstein may not be your usual choice for a child to play, but I remember playing it with my Dad. Commander Keen however was something I loved to play myself - as long as Mum got into it for me because I didn't understand operating systems back then... heck even sometimes Windows freaks me out when it comes up with an error I have never seen before.

Moving on in years I would have little Tetris games and a soccer game, but I didn't have the usual platforms everyone else had. My best friend had a Super Nintendo and then got a N64 - I didn't have anything like that so going over to her house to play Donkey Kong was really fun. Then later on she got a PlayStation and we would play Tony Hawk on it, can't remember the game but heck that was fun skateboarding - mainly because we both sucked at anything like that IRL.

 

I was always more of an online gamer or into virtual worlds. The Sims was one of my favourites, and my Aunty bought me a collection of Sim games... SimSafari was the best thing EVER. I really wish I could find that game again, but compatibility and all that jazz I don't think I could be bothered to try and get it working.

I then moved into online communities. Starting at about 9 or 10ish I think, I got into Neopets. It could have been a little later, but it was the time when you could still sometimes get a limited supply of Poogles.. I KNOW. I spent a good portion of my preteens there before going onto Habbo Hotel. That was about 13 or 14, and around the time I turned 16 the Australian version was available. I met some great people around that time, some I still talk to, or have on facebook!

One of those friends got me into RuneScape and I got to like 76. I farmed flax like a mad woman to get myself a Dragon Scimitar, and worked hard towards Dragon Hide(?) armour. Around this time I had met a new person IRL who recommended WoW.

At the time, I was like LOL no way, WoW is for noobs...... Ha, yeah I'd never played the game or knew anything about it.. but he insisted it was so awesome and he said he wouldn't ever play RuneScape after playing WoW.

 

So as I always do I went out and bought both Vanilla and BC. That's when my love began for WoW. I was like OMG pixels, OMG Mana Wyrms, OMG I'm dying!

I guess part of that problem was I was levelling my very first toon as a HOLY Priest. Yeahhhhh...

I went Shadow quickly at level 10 and didn't turn back! This was around June 2007 and not long after I also bought myself an XBox360. Now I'd bought a PS2 just to try a Final Fantasy game out, but after playing and kicking ass playing Soul Calibur 4 I just knew I had to get it.

Unfortunately, other than buying a Kinect later on, I haven't really used it much. I also bought a DSLite, then some other kind of DS and now has a 3DS. I have also just recently bought myself a Vita. I guess you can say I like new shinies.

 

Since 2007 I haven't stopped playing WoW - I may have taken a short break trying out the new games like Aion and Rift, but I never unsubbed to WoW or could ever give it up.

Now I have at least 8 legitimately levelled 90s and a few booster (such as my Horde) toons to play on, have some raid experience but not much, but have made some great friends however quite a few don't play WoW anymore or not as frequently because life for everyone has carried on.

 

Did I see myself heading towards a love of gaming? Or becoming a little bit geek chic with my love of all things interwebz encompassing? From teenagerland I could see myself enjoying manga and anime, but did I ever think that I would be almost finished my first anime love with Naruto ending soon in manga?

Nope. I also didn't in a million years think I could find someone to spend my life with either, but these things happen and WoW has done it for quite a few people other than myself.

 

So next year is not only my 20th anniversary of gaming in my eyes, but will also be the time I am going to be doing a few things. I plan on doing something involving youtube, but just unsure what it is yet. I will also be carrying on with my getting healthier plan that I am trying to stick to... I can't let my brain overrule my heart and ruin my progress when I haven't had a result I *thought* I should have gotten.

 

I will do it!

So I leave you with this song which just makes me so happy... and I also like to PvP to it and smack some faces in. :D

 

Mon x