Gaming is easily one of my favorite pass-time activities. I've been playing games for as long as I can remember, starting out with Mario and Duck Hunt. Games have come a long way though, and with these new advances, I have usually followed. Though my first games were console, around 75% of my gaming now consists of online activity.

Console gaming in my opinion is dying. Every single one of the consoles are slowly changing into computers which sucks. Why pay $300+ for a console that can only play games they put out when you can get a computer that does so much more for maybe double that price, which isn't bad considering what you can do with them. Computer games also have a lot better graphics, can play with people online (you can do this with some consoles now too, but you gotta buy extra shit to do so), and usually many many different ways to play them. You can also tack on mods (not to be confused with expansions) for free. Another bad thing about console games is how the level of difficulty has dropped over the years. Whats a game for if you can't expect a good challenge?

Anywho, for a little bit of my gaming history. Started out with NES, Super NES, Playstation and 64. Right around the Playstation is when my transfer to the online world began. My neighbor and I played Quake: TF all the time, owned it up too. Quake died out for me after Half Life was released with TFC. Same thing, just better graphics. I played for quite awhile, was invovled in OGL 5vs5 ladder and 1vs1 Soldier ladder. I was mostly a medic (with crazy conc skills), but had some skill in the Soldier arena also. During this time I played Archmage a lot (too much). Was in a few clans in there, and became pretty well known. Went through several clan wars, mostly being the #1 enemy on their hit lists and still remaining alive :). After Archmage died and TFC got old, I went to Diablo II: LoD. During the time I played this game hacks were a huge thing. Bob and I enjoyed creating legit characteres for the sole purpose of owning hackers, and it worked like a charm too. Him and I were nearly undefeatable, but when it came down to the ebayers, we had to bust out our own "hacked backups". Then we owned them and went back to our legits ^-^. We played this game too much, but because of that we had a massive amount of experience in gameplay and all the items you could possibly find. After years of playing, D2 finally died out and I started playing Counter-Strike, which I still do so today, along with Battlefield: Vietnam and Half-Life: Natural Selection.