I’m a gamer. I’m very proud that at 42 years of age I own over a hundred games on “Steam” (a digital game distribution and platform if you are unfamiliar with it) as well as dozens of other games. I’ve got so many there are several I’ve never even installed. Those I got as part of “bundles” wherein you buy a set of games for one price. Usually you are really after 1 or 2 of the games in the bundle, but with some bundles I’ve gotten upwards of 10.
I like my old school games too. The NES/SNES era games are a ton of fun and are way more challenging than you might think when compared to modern games. Just remember, there were no saves in Super Mario Bros. If you died on the final world, you started at the beginning.
But I usually played games on my computer. I loved the control a keyboard (and all the custom key bindings) and mouse would bring you, and the really crazy stuff back when things were beginning to take off were all on PC.
What brings this up? Well I was researching something completely different when I found out a classic is back on PC. What classic is that?
Ignore for a moment the legendary status this game has in the gaming community and industry. What makes me most nostialgic about the Original Diablo was the hours and hours my wife and I spent playing this game together. I connected our computers and we would stay up late and slay demons and loot dungeons together.
It was one of our first co-op gaming experinces and it layed the groundwork for many more years of game time. We would go on to play MMOs, virtual worlds, and many other games. We played Diablo II when it hit, and just last year played Diablo III on our son’s XBox 360 like it was the 90s all over again.
Don’t for a moment get the impression she was just humoring me. No, she was kicking my but left and right when we played PvP, and pretty much leading me in every game and on every team we have ever played. She usually plays Rouge/Archer type characters similar to the one shown here.
We’ve gotten older. We don’t game as much as we used to, and we do get out and do more in the real world. Neither of us have the same keen vision we had when we first started, and we’ve just recently gained a new appreciation for board games.
But we will always be gamers. And we will always game together when we can. After 20 years of marriage, I know I need her support to max out my abilities and her bow at my side to take on the next great challenge. I love you Angela.
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