I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.
I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.
I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 days.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.
My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
I'm not really big on video games at all, I played a lot at the arcade as a kid. I didn't have a system growing up at my house.
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.
I am not a gamer. Not since the days of Atari.