Those old games

Been trying to post the last few days only to have Firefox crashed at crucial moments. *sigh* all my precious writings! Hmmph, managed to get rid of the problem by reinstalling the latest version of Firefox though.
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Been downloading some old games this week to fill up some time. These were games that I used to shell out a huge portion of my pocket money just getting them. And yea, how I used to stinge to be able to get that title that came out on The Star's weekly In-tech edition.

And yea, we did games trading among ourselves too, whereby everyone in the group would be assigned to get a certain game and then we trade. Come on, those games cost us rm 8-15 each then, when our daily allowances wouldn't go more than rm 1. So yea, you have us, them no-life gamers whose main topic of interest in school weren't those cute chicks, but on how to get the Mechwarrior to jump jet over the enemy to get to the next part of the map. Sad huh? (hee, don't feel sad thinking about it now though)



It didn't seem to matter than, that the games consisted of pixelated screens and beeping sounds, unlike those pampered Half-life 2 and Dota gamers nowadays. Games back then had substance, ideas and replayability, compared to games nowadays that gives you awesome graphics and music, at the fraction of gameplay.

There were a lot of classics I would guess. Sierra games notching up a niche for itself in the adventure gaming market through games like the Quest for Glory series, Leisure Suit Larry series (when any naughty games like these caught our full attention, heh. Mighty curious kids we were back then, heheheh), and even the technically superior Gabriel Knight series.



Gaming used to be a huge portion of my life, as mom and dad were never back till 9pm everyday, whereby dinner would arrive in the shape of polystyrene boxes of chap fan. And after that, we would have to help feed the dog, lug in dad's law books and perhaps even do our revision in front of dad.

It used to be a huge part of my life as I tried to hide the fact I hadn't had many friends back then. And when things went for worse as I stayed alone in hostel with hardly anyone to hang out with, games were my breakfast, lunch and dinner buddies as we explored unknown galaxies, won that elusive Champion's league with some Luton no-hopers or even perhaps kicked ass as some champion Counter Strike player everyone knew as Mister Potato. (we had pretty weird nicks then like Tuan Jamban, Longkang and yea, the creative yours truly)



And that continued when I shifted with a bunch of horny (they'll kill me if they see this, heheh) guys at Cyberia apartments. Days were spent battling it out on the couch to see who's the ultimate Wrestlemania champion using The Rock's moves or even skidding around in Need for Speed 3. Who can forget Squaresoft and their Final Fantasy games too, as we rode around in Chocobos, traversing the wide, green plains. Heh, so much for sweet memories.



I've stopped gaming, other than the occasional foray into the unknown, as I find that friends, not games make out my life, as memories are always meant to be shared, not traversed alone.

Someone once said, we can live a life without friends, but what would life be without friends?


Goodbye, old pal. Sure miss the good old days of yore..

p/s: Still up for some wrestlemania challenge! Who's your daddy? heheh..