I first encountered a computer in high school, where we learned programming on workstations. Enjoying that, I became a computer lab assistnat which gave me the wonderful job of going to the computer room on my frees instead of sitting in the cafeteria or library. We later found out that the mainframe we first learned on was a bit older than we were... it had vacuum tubes in the back. Needless to say, no fun & games on that beast, so we brought in a Commodore 64 to play Ultima during our frees.

At home I had a Mac, and surprise... game options were slim there as well. So, while Dark Castle was good for a quick game here or there, and I ran through every Might & Magic game that came out for the Mac, I spent most of my gaming time playing AD&D with friends. I took my Mac to college with me, and started programming it to take care of most of the tedious dice rolls and book-keeping when I was the dungeonmaster for our regular group. Better games started coming out for the mac then as well: Tetris and Spectre were favorites.

After college, our AD&D group was scattered, so my wife and I started looking for computer games that would fill the gap. We also got our first Windows machines then, so there were many more options than in the mac arena at the time. We got each other EQ for Christmas, and have been playing MMOG's ever since. We left EQ to alpha and beta test DAoC (hey out there to all my scouts and the other archers from CritShot)and stayed there for several years, played around with AO in some spare time, tried SWG and Horizons, City of Heroes and EQ2 held our interest for a while, back to DAoC for Catacombs, and WoW. Although I've played some single player RPG games, and some cooperative RPG games, I definitely prefer MMOGs. FPSs tend to get me slightly motion sick.

We recently got a Mac Mini for the kids, and our oldest son has a PS2, so we're playing some games on those systems as well.

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