Hey,My name is Chris, and I have been a gamer since I had the ability to hold a controller. My father started me into gaming with the Sega Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System(SMS and NES respectively). I have always been a console gamer, though I have dabbled into the realm of PC gaming. I have played a great variety of games, and I also have acquired many of the systems that have come out since my first two systems previously mentioned. I also still have all of my systems, even a few old Atari systems, which have one of my favorite games ever: Pong. I love too many games to say that I have one particular favorite, so I cannot quite choose one.
Over time, more specifically since I got to college, I have actually played less and less video games, but my love of them have not subsided. I just do not have as much time as I used to. I did once consider going into a career field that would involve video games. I tried programming but found I cannot program to save me life. I still consider writing for video games in some form once in awhile, but I tend to lose my motivation when I start on something. I have currently ended up moving into something not involving video games that I am actually quite good at: Psychology. I will not give up on my gaming life though. I still play them when I get the free time. I enjoy them very much and there is no way I could ever stop playing them.
A site which is very related to video games is gamefaqs, a site devoted to discussing, reviewing, and helping with computer and video games. I have frequented the site for many years, and it has given me great insight into video games as a whole and the people who play them.
3 comments:
Chris, you should explore more PC games, console gaming can be rather limiting at times. There are a vast number of strategy, first person shooters, and adventure games that are great experiences on the PC. These days though it's very hard to walk into a game store and really see anything worth while on the pc. I can whip up a list of good stuff to get for you. Just let me know.
Hey Chris! I think that a lot of us can relate to not really having the time anymore to play tons of games in college. I agree though that that does not mean that we have stopped- just kind of put it on hold for a while. Maybe one day you could combine psychology and gaming- like gaming therapy to release stress of something. That would be awesome. I'd be a customer!
Yeah bro. You sound kind of like what transpired with me. I started off on the classic, NES and progressed foward in consoles like Sega Genesis, N64, Game Cube and Playstation. Funny enough, I pursued Sociology, a similar field but my thrive for game play still exists. I still game semi-frequently but, like you said, time constraints have prohibited me from gaming as much as I used to. I think that the majority of people who started off blessed with the NES sort of skipped the whole PC gaming world; at least from my observations thus far. I got into a little bit of MYST and Wolfenstien, but that is about as far as it goes for PC games. Justine is right though, you should try to intertwine you psychological studies with gaming somehow or another. I have done research on social groups and videogames (some even ethnographic) and I found some interesting facts.
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