Video games
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Video games fascinated me when I was a kid. Seeing images on a
screen that move and respond to commands was something so
incredibly cool. Better than that, it was pure magic. I was rather
young when I got my first computer, something around 8. It was
running Windows 3.1 and only had a few games. One of them being a
skiing game that I can't forget! It's called Ski Free. You just ski
and at some point there's a monster that runs toward you and tries
to eat you. I don't think it's possible to escape that monster but
as a kid I was certain we could. So I'd try and try again to escape
from them, but was never successful.
My mind was blown a few years later when I discovered multiplayer
online games. Games were cool, but playing with other people
online? That's something I would have never thought in a million
years! I still remember that day in my early teens when I was at by
best friend's house. Her brother introduced her to a game called
"The 4th Coming". It's an MMORPG, but at the time I didn't know
what it meant. All I remember was that there were lots of people on
the screen, I and kept asking her "so they are all real people??".
I think we spoke to every single people in the beginner's town
before we even started to understand that the point of the game was
to kill monsters to get stronger.
Fast forward today, I'm still fascinated by online communities and
virtual worlds, although I don't take the time play games so much.
The last few days I did though. I tried a game called "aberoth".
From an art standpoint it looks like a mix between Ski Free and The
4th Coming: 8 bit pixelated art, just the way I like it. To my
surprise, even though the game is more than 10 years old there are
still players in there. There's a tavern, a bartender, and there's
even a "drinking" skill. So dear reader, let me know if that's a
game we play and who knows, maybe at some point we can kill some
orcs together!
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https://aberoth.com
What about you? What games do you currently play? How do you find
time to play?
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