rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
...as if it was a day.
Yesterday I realised that 30 years have passed since I started playing computer games. In 1987 I got Atari 65XE for my birthday or maybe for Christmas (I can't remember exactly). On the same day I played the very first game in my life - River Raid. I was 7 years old. Since then, computers have always been present in my life - there has been no period in those 30 years that I would not have a PC or console. I am not only professionally connected with them - they are also my hobby. But it's the games that are a true passion.
To be able to watch the development of the industry from the very beginning, from simple lines and dots on the screen (Pong), to what we have today - Virutal and Augmented Reality, is something beautiful and I am incredibly grateful to the fate that I came to live in such great times. At the same time I am very happy that I was also able to get to know the analogue world, before the digital era hit full time.
Anyway - games became my biggest passion in life. A passion that I have cultivated for exactly three decades now. I still have a few other ones (passions), but I am not connected to any them, as much as I am to computer games and cultivating none of them gives me as much joy and satisfaction as gaming.
Today, I drink to all of those who have contributed to the development of the game industry in any way. From programmers, musicians, graphic designers, animators and a whole lot of other people, thanks to whom we can experience this form of art, all the way to its recipients - that is, us, players. Without one, there would be no other and vice versa.
Regardless of whether you are playing on a PC, console or smartphone...
Yesterday I realised that 30 years have passed since I started playing computer games. In 1987 I got Atari 65XE for my birthday or maybe for Christmas (I can't remember exactly). On the same day I played the very first game in my life - River Raid. I was 7 years old. Since then, computers have always been present in my life - there has been no period in those 30 years that I would not have a PC or console. I am not only professionally connected with them - they are also my hobby. But it's the games that are a true passion.
To be able to watch the development of the industry from the very beginning, from simple lines and dots on the screen (Pong), to what we have today - Virutal and Augmented Reality, is something beautiful and I am incredibly grateful to the fate that I came to live in such great times. At the same time I am very happy that I was also able to get to know the analogue world, before the digital era hit full time.
Anyway - games became my biggest passion in life. A passion that I have cultivated for exactly three decades now. I still have a few other ones (passions), but I am not connected to any them, as much as I am to computer games and cultivating none of them gives me as much joy and satisfaction as gaming.
Today, I drink to all of those who have contributed to the development of the game industry in any way. From programmers, musicians, graphic designers, animators and a whole lot of other people, thanks to whom we can experience this form of art, all the way to its recipients - that is, us, players. Without one, there would be no other and vice versa.
Regardless of whether you are playing on a PC, console or smartphone...
HERE'S TO YOU!
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