My first blog might as well set out my stall. I am an early gamer. I've been doing this a long time. 

Uniquely in the field of entertainment, us pioneers around today were there at the very beginning, or at least the beginning of it's public exposure. Theatre and film critics cannot say that, music critics cannot even begin to pinpoint what millennia their craft began in. Yet we have witnessed and been part of an explosion of ideas and new forms. We are like those early film audiences witnessing the transition from black and white silents to what we have today and there has never been such a quick transition to modernity from nothingness.

My first experience was on a BBC computer at school. It was an educational text programme followed by "The Hobbit" text adventure. I was mesmerised. Blips and bloops and stiff keys and I didn't care. This was like a board game ramped up to 1000 to me. The possibilities were endless, and I spent my childhood dreaming of those possibilities.

I had early exposure to an atari, a ZX spectrum, a vectrex, and then more mainstream sega and PC devices.

I suppose I game more on PC than anything else. It's not out of choice. I just game on whatever seems to offer the most at the time. Steam and Great old games allow me to explore the old games I didn't get to play as well as revisit the ones I found so enchanting. Old school RPGs and strategy games like Civilisation were my absolute favourites, and in many ways remain so to this day, although gaming has diversified and many of the top games cannot be categorised so easily.

So today, I game on whatever console or computer I can get my hands on, besides Nintendo. I feel their catering to casuals and over reliance on old franchises doesn't do much for me at all, and neither does over paying for last gen technology. So next gen I plan on gaming on PS4, PC and X1 eventually.