The first time I fired the NES Zapper at our wood-paneled Zenith television, I was convinced I was witnessing actual magic. It was Christmas morning 1987, and Santa had delivered the Nintendo Entertainment System Action Set, complete with Duck Hunt and its light gun peripheral. My brother Dave had already spent 20 minutes playing Super Mario Bros., but when we switched cartridges and that orange plastic gun came out of the box, everything changed. I…
My relationship with SimCity began on a rainy Saturday in 1992 when my dad came home from a garage sale…
The first time I died in Quake multiplayer, I didn’t even see it coming. One moment I was cautiously navigating…
The first time I played Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, I had no idea I was experiencing the…
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,…
I played the Left Behind DLC on a rainy Sunday in February 2014, a few months after finishing the main…
The first time I played Minecraft, I thought it was the ugliest game I’d ever seen. It was 2010, and…
I’ve always been a video game guy. From the moment my dad brought home that NES in ’85, I’ve had…
The year was 1999, and I was slouched on my friend Mark’s basement couch, watching him play some new skateboarding…
