When it comes to my gaming history, I didn't really explore too much when I was younger. The first game I can really remember playing was when my dad passed down a small handheld game of space invaders, that was extremely simple with just a grey screen with black spaceships, a D pad and an A and a B button. From this amazing device, I moved onto a similar handheld game based on the first Terminator movie, where you just shot robots that were advancing towards you. After this, I moved onto a Nintendo Gameboy colour where you were able to explore the amazing world of Pokémon, not quite managing to catch them all. There was also the classic super Mario that I always enjoyed playing and still do. I also remember cards you could get for the Gameboy that had roughly 50 games on one card, which was quite cool for a device as small as the Gameboy. Weirdly I think I picked one of them up from a holiday trip to Spain.
The next milestone in my gaming history was the Playstation for one of my birthdays. I have a lot of fond memories of the Playstation, playing games like Metal Gear Solid, Tenchu, time crisis with the huge grey gun controller and Fifa 98 with square shaped football players. The first game i got with the Playstation though was crash bandicoot which was always a family favourite, spending hours riding hogs, bouncing on papu papu's head and breaking boxes. The next console I owned was the Playstation 2, I got it for Christmas and my parents couldn't pull me away from it all day. I think the first game I had on it was WWE smackdown, back in the days when I believed it to be real fighting. Playstation 2 was the first console I played that had an analogue stick, a big development for controlling assets, which gave your thumbs a bit of a break from the harsh edges of the D pad. My favourite games for the Playstation 2 was Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3. They really stick out from the ridiculous amount of games I had because there was a good degree of realism unlike other games, especially in snake eater where you had to eat to survive, and the stealth side of it was just so fun to engage with, you never got bored of it.
From here I brought the PSP. This was a great console to play on the move and make long journeys a bit more bearable. The graphics were a big step up from playing the Gameboy and are still quite good for a handheld console. Again my favourite game was Metal Gear Solid, but on PSP it was a lot different, similar to a strategy game, where instead of free roaming you had a certain amount of moves before the enemy had chance to move so you had to watch their behaviour and plan your moves wisely.
My most recent console is the Xbox 360. I also have the Kinect for the Xbox, which in my opinion has beaten the Wii hands down when it comes to fluidity of game play and graphics, plus reduced the risk of me putting a controller through my TV screen. My favourite series of games for the Xbox, is Assassins Creed. Surprisingly I'm not really a call of duty fan, I prefer to free roam, which I think Assassins Creed achieves tremendously.
For future gaming, i would like to see myself putting on a headset and sensors to pick up my movement truly making your actions the controller. I think for first person shooters that would be the ultimate experience. To dream a little bit further ,why not in the future create an idea like the film gamer, where you control an actual person through the scenarios of a game. Then when I'm probably no longer alive I think gaming will turn into a concept like Tron where life is just a continuous game that the majority of us get sucked into.
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