When I first played Elite, my father tells me, I was 2. OFC, I didn't understand a thing that was going on in the screen. But my father played Elite when I had not been born yet. I guess that's where I really started.
Then I had an infancy filled with Pokemon (as a kid that grew up in the 90's) and GameBoy.
Later came the Dreamcast, and I really fell in love with videogames there.
But I got back to PC when my father told me "We're going to build you a PC". I already had a PII 133MHz, and knew how to install (and break) the SO, but I went for a Gforce 2. Enter Elder Scrolls Daggerfall and Frontier (I know they were old by then, but I had never heard of them before... I didn't even know about Arena, or Frontier being Elite 2, for that matter!). Morrowind, modding...
I, however, kept collevting rare handheld consoles, and played FE2 in a korean console called "Wiz". I played as I was on the bus to high school. Never made it very far (took me a week to exit the port without being shot at).
Then Freelancer. I was in awe. Truly, I still cherish the box with the original game I bought back then. This sparked me into Space Sims, and I re-discovered the Wing Commander series (had played them briefly in the 90's, didn't even know who Chris Roberts is), Freespace, Freespace 2 (I had played a shareware version of Descent)
And then X2. My, that game was awesome, it translated into X3, X3:TC and X3:AP... I even pre-ordered X:R Knowing Egosoft, they'll have a decent game in a couple of years, but it is already obsolete.
Then I found out about the KS of E: D just by chance, and pledged on KS special level.
Time went by and I discovered Star Citizen, that had gone under my radar. Bought a Super Hornet
But I always kept an eye out here. Bought myself a HOTAS and Track IR, and then, when that mail came (and with a little help from customer support -ok, a lot of help-) and I entered the Premium Beta. I am in love with it, I play 7-8 scenarios a day and I'm fawning over the alpha (have the moneh, but I has to save for Oculus Rift Consumer Version 1).
Now, here I am, back again playing the latest installment of the first game I ever played, and of which "pew-pew" sounds I could hear before I was born. Such a poetic full circle!
Then I had an infancy filled with Pokemon (as a kid that grew up in the 90's) and GameBoy.
Later came the Dreamcast, and I really fell in love with videogames there.
But I got back to PC when my father told me "We're going to build you a PC". I already had a PII 133MHz, and knew how to install (and break) the SO, but I went for a Gforce 2. Enter Elder Scrolls Daggerfall and Frontier (I know they were old by then, but I had never heard of them before... I didn't even know about Arena, or Frontier being Elite 2, for that matter!). Morrowind, modding...
I, however, kept collevting rare handheld consoles, and played FE2 in a korean console called "Wiz". I played as I was on the bus to high school. Never made it very far (took me a week to exit the port without being shot at).
Then Freelancer. I was in awe. Truly, I still cherish the box with the original game I bought back then. This sparked me into Space Sims, and I re-discovered the Wing Commander series (had played them briefly in the 90's, didn't even know who Chris Roberts is), Freespace, Freespace 2 (I had played a shareware version of Descent)
And then X2. My, that game was awesome, it translated into X3, X3:TC and X3:AP... I even pre-ordered X:R Knowing Egosoft, they'll have a decent game in a couple of years, but it is already obsolete.
Then I found out about the KS of E: D just by chance, and pledged on KS special level.
Time went by and I discovered Star Citizen, that had gone under my radar. Bought a Super Hornet
But I always kept an eye out here. Bought myself a HOTAS and Track IR, and then, when that mail came (and with a little help from customer support -ok, a lot of help-) and I entered the Premium Beta. I am in love with it, I play 7-8 scenarios a day and I'm fawning over the alpha (have the moneh, but I has to save for Oculus Rift Consumer Version 1).
Now, here I am, back again playing the latest installment of the first game I ever played, and of which "pew-pew" sounds I could hear before I was born. Such a poetic full circle!
