I’ve written some reviews, and posted a number of links and comments about games and gaming over the years. They can all be viewed in the gaming category archive.

My history in gaming goes back many years. I have a quite small group of genres I am interested in such as racing games, space games from Egosoft, Silent Hunter submarine simulations and real-time strategy.

The earliest games I remember playing were on the Commodore Vic-20. They were text-based adventure games and my parents played them with me. By paying me this attention I think they kind of moulded where my life went, and I ended up never going towards consoles. I stuck with computers and learned everything from MS-DOS to the current versions of Windows and Mac OS.

Formula One Grand Prix

After the Vic-20, I was given an Amiga by my parents and this was when I really got into sim racing for the first time. The first major simulation being Geoff Crammond’s F1GP, and eventually this led me to move through most simulations and end up working for two simulation developers.

Frontier - Elite II

I went through many of the big games in history, but another which stuck – and got me interested in the genre ever since – was the Fronter – Elite II game from David Braben. This has led me to play the X Series games from Egosoft to this very day.

I don’t have as much time to put into gaming right now. Sometimes people think that working for a game developer is ‘playing games all day’, but I probably don’t get to touch the products made by the company I work for even 1% as much as the average customer. Not that I’m complaining!