30 Day Memes: Gaming!
A lot of my friends on Facebook are doing the 30 Songs in 30 Days Meme. I’ve been debating it but then I found this one: 30 Days of Gaming. Oh yeah! (Of course it seems to focus on video games, where as I, am not going to.)
Day 1: Your First Video Game
My first video game was Facemaker, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Summer Games all on the Commodore 64. For those who don’t know/remember it was essentially a keyboard that you plugged into your TV with game cartridges that slid into the keyboard. (Holy hell, I Wikied it and they rereleased the Commodore 64 last month. The new version looks the same, but had 4GB Memory and 1TB hard drive, among other goodies.)
Anyway, Facemaker (screenshot to the side) was pretty much a programming test where you built a silly face then programed it to do things. It was like the caveman version of The Sims.
It got boring pretty fast, but this being 82-84 or so I was all of 5, so when other things got too hard simple was good.
The Winnie the Pooh game was my favorite. It came with a map! You had to roam around the 100 Acre Wood, looking for objects that belonged to the Pooh cast that got blown away in a big wind and return it. Ten items to be returned and you win! (Hehe, video below.)
So seriously it was the first puzzle/problem solving game I fell for. And did I mention it came with a map?
Summer Games was harder for little Michele, but sometimes the other two got boring, so I played. I liked the pole vault and diving games best.
Oh, I have to stop myself from going on a complete tangent here and just blabbering about my computer-using history. (I always loved computers.)
As for the other kind of gaming my very very first game was table top Vampire the Masquerade/Werewolf the Apocalypse circa 1995/96. The game only lasted one session, but I was completely hooked. It was almost three years before I found another game that wasn’t filled with asshats who lied about when games were or outright told me I wasn’t invited despite them being run in my own basement. And that was the LARP where I met Jason. So, yeah, gaming, pretty important to me, even if I don’t keep up with the latest and greatest.
Full Meme List
Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time