Started gaming in the late '80's on my older brothers Intellivision system until getting an original Gameboy in '89 with Tetris and Super Mario Land. Played everything I could on my friends and neighbors NES, Sega Genesis, Commodore 64 and PCs, though never had one for myself at the time. Loved to go to the movies so I could hang out in the arcade in the mall playing TMNT, X-Men, Defender and all the lightgun games, especially Terminator 2.
Took a brief side quest into the wonderful world of early Macintosh gaming on the family machine(Mutant Beach, Loom, Marathon), until finally getting an SNES for Christmas of '93 (Saved for it for months but my parents refused to let me buy the system myself so that I couldn't keep my younger brother from playing it. That's fine. More cash for games :-D).
Finally, in '94, my father let me take home an unused 486 system and some extra hard drives and RAM sticks that were laying around his office, freeing me from the shackles of playing freeware and demos on his work laptop. I built myself a Frankensteinian beast rig and Wolf3D, Doom, Ultima and Tie Fighter were finally mine! It was also my first taste of system building, which I've kept up since with double digits in built PCs under my belt.
Kept my passion for gaming through high school, college, and into young adulthood. Played or owned most of the released consoles, kept my PC as up to date as my income would allow and have followed gaming since. I hope to keep on playing 'til the wheels come off and am glad to have found a community of like-minded individuals at Giant Bomb.
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