Writer's Block: Gaming From Young to Old

What was your favorite game as a child? What's your favorite now? View other answers

"As a child"? Awfully specific, don't you think? Well, I'll work around it.

As a little kid, back when the household computer was a Mac Plus, I was a huge fan of "Express Lane". (Fun fact: unlike normal games where cheating merely makes you lose, if you try to steal from the store in Express Lane, it would crash your computer. Seriously, you'd have to push the debug switch to get out.)

The next game that sticks out strongly in my mind is the IBM "Prince of Persia", but I was never very good at it. I just liked watching my brother.

After that, around and into the time I got into the Boy Scouts, I became a fan of quote-D&D-endquote. By which I mean SLUG, essentially. (I'm still kinda proud of getting my friends in the Scout troop started on the tradition. No idea if it will persist past their graduation, of course.)

A bit later on, I became a "Gran Turismo" fiend. (For the record, among seventh-generation consoles, I maintain that "Forza Motorsport 2" is the truest successor of Gran Turismo: it includes the simulation-style driving, the dizzying array of automobiles - you think I'm kidding? Try this: it's got the Porsche 914, the Eagle Talon, the Buick Regal GNX... - and a tuning system that must be seen to be believed - can you say "engine swap"?)

A few years ago, I was a "Second Life" fan.

Right now, I'm back to D&D - but now it's AD&D 2.5, the campaign my brother is running.

Tomorrow? Well, one of the guys in the AD&D campaign is working on a RIFTS campaign....

Scaling Problems

Anyone else notice Twitter is being down a lot now? Was it always like that, or am I just unlucky enough to have joined when too many others did?

Oh, and speaking of Twitter, a few of you may be mildly irritated with me soon - either already or in about eighty minutes. Just FYI!

*runs away*