About The Gaming Dad

Hey everyone!

Yes, this is another site about video games.  Hopefully, I can bring a somewhat unique viewpoint to the topic since I’m not a teenager and I have kids of my own who play video games. A little timeline of my gameplay experience:

Too little to know better – We had a Pong system. I’ll have to dig it out next time I visit my parents and get some pictures.

Christmas 1981 – My dad, much to my mother’s chagrin, purchased an Atari 2600. I was a bit young at the time, but I still remember playing Defender, Combat, and yes, ET.

Christmas 1986 – The NES! At this point, I was old enough to hold my own in Super Mario. I had a subscription to Nintendo Power. My friends and I talked Nintendo during recess and started early on game trading. Final Fantasy. Zelda 1 and 2. Mario, Mario and Mario.

Christmas 1991 – The SNES! More Mario, more Zelda.

~1992 – My start in PC gaming… Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein. DOOM. Duke Nukem. Quake, Unreal Tournament. I remember lugging my self-built 486 around to my friend’s houses to play multiplayer Doom. Does anyone remember ZZT?

~2002 – The GameCube. Okay, well… Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Resident Evil 4. Hey, it was still a great system, unfortunately overshadowed by the PS2, but that’s okay. I actually played Ocarina of Time for the first time on the GameCube since I skipped the N64.

Now – Wii, 360, PS3, PC.

Since this is a new site, there is still a lot that needs to be decided, but there is no rush!  I’ll be gaming for the foreseeable future, probably until the zombie apocalypse when the power goes out…