JOMG - Just One More Game!

By Smersh July 25, 2008 0 Comments

An ol' skool gamer, I started on an Acorn Computer way back in the mid-eighties which used cassette tapes instead of disks (it also had a 1:10 chance of actually loading a game). I then moved onto an Amiga 500 in the late eighties which is still one of my all time favourite gaming systems, I had about a bazillon games in glorious technicolour including classics like: Double Dragon, Barbarian, Ikari Warriors, Rainbow Islands, Syndicate, Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder, Turbo Outrun... I could go on forever.

Then came my Sega Master System 2, which I loved to bits (literally) and spoiled me with not one, but two buttons!! Sega introduced me to some cult classics like Alex the Kidd, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat (an average port with only 6 players but it saved me lots of arcade time), Californa Games (which I now have on my mobile phone) and Ecco the Dolphin. Then one day the underwater spikes level in Alex the Kidd got to me one to many times and my Sega felt the fury as it flew out the bedroom window crashing onto the concrete driveway... game over Sega.

From there I moved into a whole new world of gaming courtesy of Sony and it's unstopable grey box... the Playstation. I vividly remember my friends and I staying up for days without sleep playing Extreme Games and Tekken, taking full advantage of the 2-Day hire and returning the thing at the last possible minute. This 3D stuff was a whole new world to us and there was always time for just one more game. Eventually I got a job purely to buy a Playstation of my own, I couldn't believe how gaming had evolved in such a short time. Two games which totally absorbed me during that era were Metal Gear Solid -- which was the first single player game that made me feel that the game was actually playing me! and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater which my friends and I would spend a whole summer using as a psych up for days of grazed elbows, broken knees, and bruised arses.

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