I first encountered Star Control II during what I now refer to as “The Great Summer Boredom of ’93.” My parents had dragged me to my grandmother’s house for a month-long visit, and her idea of entertainment for a fifteen-year-old consisted mainly of jigsaw puzzles and reruns of Murder, She Wrote. My salvation arrived in the form of my uncle Dave, who showed up for a weekend with his fancy new PC and a stack…
I realized I might have a problem last Saturday at 6:42 AM. I was standing in a stranger’s garage in…
It was the summer of ’92, and I was stuck indoors during a particularly nasty heatwave that had turned our…
The first time I played Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, I had no idea I was experiencing the…
The first time I died in Quake multiplayer, I didn’t even see it coming. One moment I was cautiously navigating…
My relationship with SimCity began on a rainy Saturday in 1992 when my dad came home from a garage sale…
The first time I fired the NES Zapper at our wood-paneled Zenith television, I was convinced I was witnessing actual…
It started with a whisper. Scott Thompkins, a quiet kid who sat two rows ahead of me in Ms. Harrington’s…
I first played Alone in the Dark on a sticky summer night in 1993, sitting in my friend Kevin’s basement…
Watching Fallout’s sixth episode last night felt like that moment in Fallout 3 when you first emerge from Vault 101—disorienting,…
