I've owned various gaming consoles through the years. I recall that my little brother had an Atari 5200, which our parents had purchased for him, though the first console I actually owned myself was the Super Nintendo. I later bought a Panasonic 3DO and then the original Sony Playstation. Today my children continue the legacy by playing video games on several different platforms. I can still play many of the games that I own for the 3DO and Playstation systems, were I to feel the desire, though I have to admit there are very few I bother with and I rarely get the urge to fire up the old consoles. These days most of my gaming is done on a computer, because I like the customization possible with computer games and that has made them far more attractive to me than their console counterparts.

  My first computer was a Commodore 128, which I had bought second hand from a friend of mine back in the latter part of the nineteen-eighties. I wasn't new to computers then, as my father worked for IBM, so he had owned some of the early IBM personal computers. This included one of the first portable computers, which compared to today's laptops was anything but portable. The thing was the size of a large suitcase! The game I liked playing the most on my Commodore 128 was called Bard's Tale and I spent many, many hours playing it. In fact, I bought the most recent installment of Bard's Tale for my PC and I enjoyed playing it thoroughly as well.

  The first internet capable computer I owned was a PowerComputing 133 MHz tower, which was essentially a Macintosh manufactured under license from Apple. Soon thereafter I got hooked on Bungie's Myth: The Fallen Lords, and later its successor Myth II: Soulblighter. I was just as taken by the community that grew up around the Myth games and I became involved early on with several aspects of that community. I initially contributed to a website which was devoted to the Myth series and through this I was exposed to the people who were editing their own original additions to the game. This eventually led to my becoming interested in the editing process as well, and the result was that I ended up developing a slew of multiplayer levels and modifications for the game myself. These Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter multiplayer levels and modifications of mine can be found here.

  I don't edit the Myth games anymore, and haven't done so for quite some time now, and rarely even play the series. There are still a couple of other games I like to play occasionally, but the game that I currently play the most is World of Warcraft. I've also created a few AddOn modifications for World of Warcraft and seem to always be doing something related to WoW somehow. In fact, I play it just about every day, though I primarily use it as an excuse to keep up with a very good friend of mine. I've known him for quite some time, and he was even Best Man when I wed my daughters' mother. He and I have been playing online together since I discovered the medium, and in fact have been playing games together of one sort, or another, for over twenty-five years.

  Prior to World of Warcraft, we were mostly found playing UT2004. I have also done some editing on UT, though only to create player skins of myself and my friend. You can view my UT2004 player skin portrait here and download the actual skin for the game here. Another game that I enjoy goofing around on from time to time is Flatout. I have many other games as well, titles such as Battlefield 1942, Doom III, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Myth III, Need for Speed Underground 2, Tribes 2 and Warcraft III, but I simply don't spend very much time playing them. Perhaps someday this will all change, but for now I am a World of Warcraft junkie.