About
In years past men would retreat to the local bar after a long day at work, read the paper and fall asleep or actually spend time with their family. These days, none of that is required (or even desired) anymore because of the wonder that is video games. Which is precisely what this site is about. PC games. Console games. You know, game type games.
It’s written by two guys (datter, the artsy sort and meeper, the programmery sort) who have an admittedly minimal professional connection to the games industry, but despite that we appreciate games and like to think we understand everything about them. Does this qualify us to write about them? Sure why not, it’s the internet. If this site doesn’t work out maybe we’ll start another about electroencephalography.
The guys
datter
http://finaldog.com
http://www.twitter.com/datter
datter@caveofdistraction.com
I can’t remember what my very first computer game was, but unless your “old” like me you wouldn’t remember it anyway. We’re talking the TI-994a computer here people, my first “rig” and it was terrific. It came with cartridges that had games on ‘em like Parsec and Blasto. I loved those games, and when you got sick of them your friends could bring over cassette tapes (!) with even more games. These were titles nabbed off of floppy disks passed around junior high, or home made games written in TI-Basic, or if you were lucky… TI-Extended Basic. mmmm extended basic.
I went from the TI to a 386 and a monochrome monitor, which was a huge step up considering my TI99 plugged into my television set. After that the upgrades started and it was all downhill from there. Hello social life, oh… goodbye social life, that was over fast. Hey look a 256 color monitor!! TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX? Holy crap that’s even better than sex, I think anyway.
It’s now like 25+ years later and I’m still gaming as much as I can, although my monitor has picked up an additional 15,999,744 colors along the way. Somehow in the mix I’ve managed to find a wife and have two kids (both boys) and so far so good I suppose. PC gaming has changed a hell of a lot over the years, and I’ve been playing along through it all for better or worse. Hell, I’d probably play more if I could get my kids to get off the computer and go outside now and then. I guess they take after their Dad.
meeper – Is too busy or LAZY to write anything for the site, much less here about himself. That’s how he rolls.