Why Do I Play - Part 1, Life Before WoW
Blogger Tobold has been doing a fascinating series called "Why do we play?" wherein he looks for the various reason people play an MMORPG. That got me thinking about the question of why do I play? This is really important to me right now because at somepoint in 2010 I'll have a decision, a major decision, to make. So I went back to the beginning. Why did I get started in WoW in the first place? Before I ever started WoW, video/computer games were already a big part of life. I started out on an Atari 2600, and then moved up to an Atari 7200. My sister would play Pac-Man with me. In that game, you alternated turns so when she died, it was my turn, and when I died, and it was her turn. When it came my turn, you would make a big deal of getting some pillows and getting really comfortable, because she was going to be there a while. My Dad and I played Atari Baseball. Then I got a Commodore 64. I played games like Summer Games and my first RPG game whose name I can't remem...