LarryUnderwood
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First read this: http://www.edge-online.com/review/half-life-review/
I read this review in edge, in print, in 1998 in the back of station wagon, while moving away from the best friends I ever had. I felt like I had nothing and lost everything and had to make friends all over again, all on the cusp of my junior-high insecurity. I was my own doctor, and this was my typical junior-high end of the world self-diagnosis.
I bought the game at a Wal-Mart in Hope, Arkansas. I played it. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have had. I played it on my grandparents' computer. My sister and I were staying there, caught between Maryland and Texas, while my parents were doing post-navy house hunting. Half-Life had characters, action, a plot, mystery, and sadness. It was art and it was the first time I was able to appreciate art. The first friend I made in Texas had just bought this game. We would get on an IRC chat, play through a chapter, and talk about it. AOL was lame. IRC seemed like last internet frontier for a 13 year old. I would workaround the AOL app, and dial directly into the AOL servers so that I could play online. When AOL laid the hammer down on that misbehavior, I became more nerdy and convinced my parents to ditch AOL, mostly because my dad didn't understand what the hell I was talking about and I was the family's literal internet gateway. We got an internet service that let me dial into an ISP through windows networking. I played TFC with dial-up lag and loved ever ms of it.I bought a hardware modem. I installed Linux. I uninstalled Linux. I built my own PC with money I scratched together from Christmas, birthdays, and my part-time job at Eddie Williams. It was ghetto. It was beige. It had a TNT2. It caught on fire once. My parents don't know about this.
I love games because they are fun. But I also love games because I had to learn to play them on PC. Maybe this is a result of jank, but dammit if I don't look on dialing another computer to play command and conquer fondly.
I love games because of Half-Life.
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Why do you love games? Answer with a game.
I read this review in edge, in print, in 1998 in the back of station wagon, while moving away from the best friends I ever had. I felt like I had nothing and lost everything and had to make friends all over again, all on the cusp of my junior-high insecurity. I was my own doctor, and this was my typical junior-high end of the world self-diagnosis.
I bought the game at a Wal-Mart in Hope, Arkansas. I played it. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have had. I played it on my grandparents' computer. My sister and I were staying there, caught between Maryland and Texas, while my parents were doing post-navy house hunting. Half-Life had characters, action, a plot, mystery, and sadness. It was art and it was the first time I was able to appreciate art. The first friend I made in Texas had just bought this game. We would get on an IRC chat, play through a chapter, and talk about it. AOL was lame. IRC seemed like last internet frontier for a 13 year old. I would workaround the AOL app, and dial directly into the AOL servers so that I could play online. When AOL laid the hammer down on that misbehavior, I became more nerdy and convinced my parents to ditch AOL, mostly because my dad didn't understand what the hell I was talking about and I was the family's literal internet gateway. We got an internet service that let me dial into an ISP through windows networking. I played TFC with dial-up lag and loved ever ms of it.I bought a hardware modem. I installed Linux. I uninstalled Linux. I built my own PC with money I scratched together from Christmas, birthdays, and my part-time job at Eddie Williams. It was ghetto. It was beige. It had a TNT2. It caught on fire once. My parents don't know about this.
I love games because they are fun. But I also love games because I had to learn to play them on PC. Maybe this is a result of jank, but dammit if I don't look on dialing another computer to play command and conquer fondly.
I love games because of Half-Life.
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Why do you love games? Answer with a game.