Age 5-10:
Platform: ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum +2, ZX Spectrum +3
Games of note: Horace Goes Skiing, a Scooby Doo game, some adventure game where I couldn’t get passed the fourth screen no matter how hard I tried, Mailstrom, Paperboy
Age 9-11:
Platform: Commodore 64
Games of note: Snare, Football Manager, Split Personalities, Skool Daze, a Bubble Bobble game, Daly Thompson’s Decathlon,
Age 12-14:
Platform: NES
Game of note: Super Mario Bros 3 (far eclipsing all others to the point that they’re not worth mentioning)
Age 15-19:
Platform: a 286 PC
Games of note: Moria, Monkey Island 2, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, Pinball Fantasies (many keys broken), Chemquiz (which is why I know the periodic table and all the elements now)
Age 18-19:
Platform: D’s brother’s PC in Bradford
Game of note: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (my first very antisocial addiction!)
Age 19-21:
Platform: our PC in Liverpool
Games of note: Civilisation 2/Civ 2 Test of Time, Tropico, Age of Empires & Age of Empires 2 (played over the LAN with Alex), The Sims, Shadow Warrior (not the actual game, just the level editor)
Age 21-23:
Platform: Yahoo Games while bored at work
Games of note: Literati (*cough*Scrabble*cough*), Chinese Checkers,
Age 22:
Platform: PSOne at Dan’s and at ours
Game of note: (ours) Tekken 2 & something Tony Hawk-y and (Dan’s) Bustamove 2 (many hours spent putting the world to rights)
Age 23:
Platform: laptop running Debian
Games of note: Five or more, (what is now) Swell Foop
Age 23-26:
Platform: XBox
Games of note: Psychonauts, Fable, something in the Tony Hawk series, Super Mario Bros 3 on an emulator, Soul Calibre 2
Age 25:
Platform: PC
Game of note: World of Warcraft, oh yes.
Age 27-onwards:
Platform: laptop running Ubuntu
Game of note: OpenTTD (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
Age 28:
Platform: Nintendo DS
Game of note: Harvest Moon DS (gardening and keeping chickens before I could in real life)
Age 28-onwards:
Platform: Nintendo DS
Game of note: Scrabble DS, Zookeeper
Age 29-onwards:
Platform: On ubuntu under WINE
Games of note: Age of Empires/AoE 2, Theme Hospital, Tropico
Age 29-30:
Platform: XBox 360
Games of note: Fable 2, Hexic
Age 30:
Platform: PC
Game of note: World of Warcraft, oh yes again.
Five favourite games overall (in no particular order):
- Super Mario Bros 3
- World of Warcraft
- OpenTTD
- Tropico
- Psychonauts
23/6/2011 at 11:12 am
Mine are:
Dizzy — on C64, PC and PC emulating C64
Zelda Ocarina of Time (played on neighbour’s x-box, kneeling on their hard wooden floor — 2002/03)
Morrowind (on laptop. I played it so much that even now I can achieve a relaxed out-of-body feeling by thinking the background music — 2006/07).
Sim Island (played on Nintendo DS (pink) at work while waiting to be laid off. The guy next to me stared at his blank computer screen for SIX HOURS — 2009).
Zelda Twilight Princess (played on Wii while unemployed… ahem jobseeking — 2009).
Professor Leighton 1-3 (on Nintendo DS; 2 & 3 were love gifts from my husband; played 3 while heavily pregnant and struggling with mumnesia / baby brain)