My relationship with SimCity began on a rainy Saturday in 1992 when my dad came home from a garage sale with a stack of SNES cartridges. “This one looked different,” he said, handing me SimCity. “The guy selling it said it’s not really a game where you win or lose. You just… build a city?” He seemed genuinely perplexed, which immediately piqued my interest. A video game that wasn’t about defeating a final boss or…
The first time I played The Secret of Monkey Island, I was sixteen and spending the night at my friend…
There’s something deeply satisfying about the clean, definitive moment when a puzzle clicks into place. That mental “aha!” sensation when…
October 1996. I was 18, fresh out of high school, and working part-time at a local video store that had…
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…