I remember the exact moment I fell in love with adventure games. It was Christmas 1990, and after weeks of dropping increasingly unsubtle hints, I unwrapped a copy of The Secret of Monkey Island for our family PC. I installed it that night, the 3.5-inch floppy disks clicking and whirring in the drive, and was immediately transported to a Caribbean island where a wannabe pirate named Guybrush Threepwood was about to embark on the adventure…
The first time music made me cry, it wasn’t a sad movie score or a heart-wrenching pop ballad—it was the…
I still remember the first time I saw Sonic the Hedgehog in action. It was summer 1991, and I was…
Video games have evolved to include countless different genres, with each one emphasizing different gameplay mechanics and attracting different types…
I remember exactly where I was when I first played The Sims. February 2000, crammed into my friend Tom’s basement…
The first time I ever played a game against someone who wasn’t physically sitting next to me felt like actual…
I can still hear the heated arguments echoing across the playground of Westlake Elementary circa 1992. “Sonic is way cooler!”…
I first met Solid Snake on a frigid January night in 1999. My roommate had gone home for the weekend,…
My first sports video game was Basketball on the Atari 2600, and calling it “basketball” required more imagination than actual…
