I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which contrary to popular belief has not been wiped off the face of the earth by a Klendathu meteor.
I grew up in the '80s, teen angsted grungily all through the '90s, and been hatin' on everything "new" since the 2000s. I have a fondness for cheesy '70s-'80s fliks and sounds, strong emotional attatchment to some '90s fliks, tunes n' games, and mostly resentment towards some of the more recent stuff. Some, not all...
I've been around games all my life in some form or other. It all started with a 1983 IBM PC clone with green monochrome monotirs (and also an orange monochrome) and random arcade machines found in malls or supermarkets (like Gyruss and Wonder Boy in Monsterland). Soon after came the Atari 2600, and with games like Berzerk, Combat and Pitfall I and II, that was that. I'd reached my point of no return.
I mostly play PC games. As is usually the case, PCs are needed to do stuff and therefore are always kinda just around, so when you live in a technology-expensive country like I do where technology costs 4 to 10 times what it costs yanks, for example, you tend to go all out for one thing, usually the thing that's most useful.
An aside into what "game-culture" (if you can call it that) has been like in this country (Argentina): Piracy has been very rampant in the "disc based games" era, to the point where it never even ocurred to me that what I was doing was "wrong". However, these last few years, with Steam n' other online purchase options that have significantly lowered that 4 to 10 times cost, that's not the case so much anymore with games. Hardware, on the other hand, is deadly expensive. So not a lot of "archiving" goin' on here. It's customary to sell off old games as soon as possible. You won't see video game enthusiasts still holding on to their old Atari2600s or NES' or Playstations, u-uh, no sir. That said, I still own a PS2.
I'm now an adult (35 as I write this) and I still enjoy games just as much as I ever did. I've switched my love of one genre to another a few times, but it's usually been between action/adventure games and RPGs. Some of my all-time classic favorites that come to mind at the time of writing this are: Fallout series (including Bethesda's), Half-Life, Eye of the Beholder, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Berzerk, Combat, Pitfall 1 and 2, Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Deus Ex, Morrowind, Super Mario Bros 1 & 3, Final Fantasy 4 and 6, Chrono Trigger, Ninja Gaiden (NES), Mega Man 2, Bionic Commando (NES), Metroid series, Castlevania series, and the Ultima series. These make up most of what taste in games I have today.
I'm not really into: Strategy games of any kind (including RTS), adventure games (although I used to be), puzzle games (with exceptions), shmups (with exceptions), fighting games, and now tired and iterative jRPGs.
Guess that's me in an 8-bit, pixellated, monochromatic nutshell.
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