Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Technological Biography

Man Goldeneye was an awesome game, I put way to many hours into that game when I was in 6th-8th grade. The James Bond based first person shooter (in 64 bit graphics!) really defined the FPS genre and set the standard for every shooter and multiplayer game since. An N64 was my first gaming console, and I literally locked myself in a room at all hours of the night playing, those were great days when I could have a death match with 3 other friends, that number was considered amazing back then. I;m not sure how video games effected me as a youth, except that I still like video games. Another piece of technology was our family's first PC. It was a Packard bell with triple ram, a 28 k-b-p-s modem, and a processor tyhree times the speed of a pentium. Then Angelina Jolie said, "that's too much computer for you." Hackers, anyone? Actually I don't even think it had a pentium in it. It did have DOS based Win 3.1 though, I really wish windows would switch back to a DOS platform, I might throw away my mac then because that OS was great, and stable. That machine had a few great games on it, original warcraft, and Sim city 2000, the two best stratergy games ever. Other than that my first mac, a G4 tower, which is up for sale as a bitchin' audio machine if anyone wants it.

3 comments:

Ofman said...

dude, golden eye was amazing... my cousin used to have it and i'd get my ass handed to me on a daily basis.

you should consider focusing on your first PC, i think everyone in the world had a Packerd Bell, which is kinda weak, i gave my old one to my cousin in mexico, and he still uses it.

Mrs. Mars said...

I was never into computer games or video games. But reading this made me wish i had played. It was something all the cool kids were doing and i had no idea how to play....and now it's coming back to haunt me.lol.

NewMexicoJen said...

Dave-
Seems like gaming is really at the forefront of your tech story. Do you think it brought you to your work at NMSU, to your future career path?
I liked how you reference friends as part of your history - do games/technology influence your friend circle now? Do you think they will in the future?
It might be interesting to investigate what the draw was/is for you with gaming. Why is it so damn fun for so many people?
-Jen