First post.

I love PC-games and have done so since I finally, in late 1991, could afford a used C64. By that time, I was 30 years old. Don't ask me where my money went before that, 'cause I don't know. I had been using computers at work for several years but never thought of them as pleasure machines.

My co-workers often talked about this-and-that-game and that speedy new 386 cpu that one of them recently bought. It was all jibberish to me, but I listened and I learned. I never participated in the discussions but the urge to find out more grabbed me.

Eventually one of them had a C64 for sale. I bought it. From that day on, I was stuck. A year later I bought an Amiga 500, learned a lot and finally, in 1995, I bought me a Pentium II 333 MHz, thanks to government subsidairies. I almost married it.

Three years later I bought a new machine, AMD 1,3 GHz, and two years later a Pentium 4, 3,06 GHz, the machine I still have and love.

Unfortunatly I'm poor. Not need-social-welfare-poor, but poor in Swedish standards. With four kids, I have to choose if I want to feed my offspring or buy the latest games. Of course I choose the latter.

Just kidding. Of course I feed the family first. The gaming might come in seventh place or so, but nevertheless I love playing computer games. Since I can't buy the latest games, I'll have to buy games that everyone else seems to have played already. That gives me the advantage to have read about the games I buy and knowing if I really want it or not. The keyword is patience.

I know that there are more people like me out there in cyber-space. Everyone doesn't have a rich daddy who will pay up for a bug-infested, rushed-to-be-published-before-Christmas kind of game. Some of us have patience and are clever enough to wait for the patches and reviews before we buy.


Now, what kind of games do I prefer?

First-person-shooters, space-sims, tetris-like and racing games. I don't like online-gaming. That's because I suck at it, not because I have trouble with lagging. I have a 10 Mbps broadband-line so that's no problem.

Why do I want to review old games? Because I can't very well review the new ones.

I hope some of you find my reviews useful. If not, who cares. I'm having fun and that's what matters to me.