Video Games and Me

This is the first of several posts that are notes I compiled back in Oct 2009 of my thoughts on things that interest me. This was mostly done for my son Riley who had been born pre-mature earlier that year. Somethings might not be accurate anymore, but I'm posting them as they were written.

There are so many different videos games I have played over the years that I not going to do what I did with the roleplaying games and list each one. Instead I will briefly mention the ones that left a lasting impression on me whether for good or ill. I'm going to try and list them into the typical broad categories video games as usually list under: Real Time Strategy (RTS), First Person Shooter (RPS), Adventure, Roleplaying (RPG), Turn-based, and Simulation.

RTS Games

• Age of Empires I and II
• Star Craft/Brood Wars
• Total Annihilation and TA: Kingdoms
• Rise of Nations
• Warcraft I, II, III
• Empire Earth
• Command & Conquer, CC: Red Alert, CC 3: Tiberium Wars
• Settlers I and II
• Majesty
• Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
• Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War and sequels

FPS Games

• Wolfenstein 3D
• Doom 1,2,3
• Quake
• Rainbow Six
• Medal of Honor
• Half-life 1,2
• Unreal and UT
• Starseige
• Mechwarrior games
• Bioshock
• AvP

Adventure Games

• Zork
• Phantasmagoria 1,2
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

RPG Games

• Temple of Apshai
• Ultima
• Alternate Reality: The City
• Bard's Tale 1,2,3
• Autoduel
• Wasteland
• Pool of Radiance
• Eye of the Beholder
• Elder Scrolls: The Arena
• Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall
• Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
• Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
• Diablo 1,2
• Balder's Gate 1,2
• Planescape: Torment
• Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor
• Deus Ex
• System Shock 1,2
• Dungeon Seige 1,2
• Star Seige
• Neverwinter Nights 1,2
• Star Wars: KOTOR 1,2
• Star Wars: Jedi Academy 1,2
• Titan Quest
• Hellgate: London
• Fallout 3
• Fable
• Assassin's Creed
• Mass Effect
• GTA: San Andreas
• GTA 4
• Sid Meier's Pirates

Turn-based Games

• Civilization 1,2,3,4
• Alpha Centauri
• Master of Orion 1,2,3
• Diplomacy
• Europa Universalis 1,2
• Risk
• Stars!
• Master of Magic
• Archon
• Shogun: Total War
• Medieval II: Total War

Simulation Games

• Creatures
• Elite
• Merchant Prince
• Caesar 1,2
• Railroad Tycoon 1,2
• M.U.L.E.
• Little Computer Poeple
• The Sims
• Spore
• Black & White
• Rock Band