Hmmm...What should I call my first post?

Greetings readers (note the optimism!). If you are reading this, thanks.   I am too too old to be playing games and reading comics, but I am also too old to “grow up.”  If you think what I have to say is stupid and/or just plain wrong, no problem.  I may agree with you in a day, or a week, or right after I write it.

This is my…I have lost count… latest entry into the blogging world.  I thought I would get back into outing my thought about games down.  It has been a few years since I was reviewing for loadedinc.com (which no longer exist).  As a matter of fact, most of my reviews are now credited to other folks when they transferred over to a new domain, all the old review being dumped in under the name of the new editor.  Thankfully X-Plane 9 and Dangerous Waters have a brief quote of my review on their boxes/web sties, and Google has archived a few reviews with my name.

My gaming began as a wide-eyed youth punching numbers into a calculator my father brought home form IBM.  There were no graphics, merely a trajectory and fuel usage calculation.  Get it working and you crashed.  Get it right and you landed safely.

Simple.  Repetitive. Addictive.

Enter text adventures.  Zork,  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.   Again, no eye candy, just a relatively simple goal in mind each step of the way.  And then came pong.  The games left my imagination and entered the realm of the screen. 

Fast forward to today - the age on the Internet and online games.  What was the old cigarette ad (yes they used to advertise those thing all over the place) “You’ve come a long way baby!”

No longer the realm of nerds and geeks (which were negative terms in the days before gaming going main stream).

I am currently involved in a little game called World of Warcraft.  I am a very late adapter.  I have played every genre imaginable and wasted (and continue to waste) many hours in pursuit of electronic goals.

Gaming is one of my vices, along with comics, of course, which I only recently reintroduced into my life.

I am about to unleash my narcissistic self on the net (again).  If I am the only one who reads this, that will be just fine.  After all, who cares what I think?

I am not quite sure what I will write and how often, but here I go again.

I’ll just keep plugging away.