Stuff I Love meme - Day 9. Witth an interlude by Daisy

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Day 9: Video games

I love playing video games! My first -

Daisy interrupted this post to let me know there are - apparently - monsters down the side of the armchair cushion. I tried to help but that (again, apparently) caused the monsters to jump on my hand. Daisy chased them (and me) off and went back to routing them out from the side of the cushion. Now she's finished, Daisy's eaten some biscuits and gone outside to play in the wind.

Where was I? Oh yeah. My first experience of video games was the ubiquitous Space Invaders game followed by Pac-Man played on those huge machines. And I was absolutely terrible at them.

Then, some time later, I tried Sonic on a friend's Sega Master System, followed by Alex Kidd, and I was hooked. Then, I tried the Sega Mega Drive. It's still my favourite game system. I play video games on my pc and my Kindle but they don't compare to the sheer elation and thrill of the Mega Drive games. They were brilliant. Maybe it's nostalgia coupled with a time in my life when I was able-bodied and more in control of everything around me but I've never found anything that matches.

That's not to say I haven't played some excellent games on my pc. The Dark Parable series are excellent story based games while the Jewel Quest match 3 games are fun to puzzle my way through. I've got some puzzle games (like Elven Mists 2) I play over and over. I really do enjoy video games.

Comments

[swordznsorcery]

Space Invaders! I used to play that quite a lot, as I had a ZX81, and that was just about the only game it could manage! Later I upgraded to a Spectrum 48K, which brought the extra "delight" of Manic Miner, but I was never really a fan of many games. Too much repetition for me, in so many of them. I do love Simon the Sorcerer though. Fun adventure games, where you have to find objects, and figure out what to do with them, to advance the story.

I'm glad you're so well defended by Daisy Monster Bane. :D

[dimity_blue]

Oh, I loved Simon the Sorcerer! I think I only played the first one though. It was a really good game.

Apparently the sitting room doorframe is making faces at Daisy. She's attacked it twice so far.

[corvidology]

I never got into them but I have friends and family members who really love them and still play them for hours.

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I probably spend far too long playing them.