I like to think of myself as a real hardcore gamer. I have always loved gaming, and it has been in my soul since my parents got my sisters and I a N64 and PSX for Christmas one year when I was about six. So I guess I need to thank them for getting me started in the gaming world. I probably could not tell you the amount of time i spent playing games when I was a kid. From Spyro and Mario to More mature games like Metal Gear Solid (a demo that came with the system) I had fun playing anything that I could get my hands on. As the years went on I found myself playing games less and less untill one day in fith grade my good friend Josh asked me if I had heard of a game called "Halo" I said no and he told me that one of his friends Paul had a Xbox and that I should go over and play it some time. Paul and I were good friends at school but we never really went over to each other's house or anything. So when Paul called me up one day and asked if I wanted to come over and play Halo with him, Josh and our other friend Robb I said I would be right over! I had some idea on what the game was going to be about, but when I saw it for the first time I could not stop playing. I guess you could say that Halo brought my friends and I together like never before. As years went by I got into the gaming community as much as I could playing big titles like Resident Evil (series), Halo, Call of Duty, Quake, Gears of War, WoW, and Mass Effect just to name a few. I even kept up with the games that got me into like Spyro and Mario. To me gaming is more than a thing you do when your bored. Over the years games have come so far that I still think about how gaming started out as single pixles and now has evolved into a massive community of not just games but true art and entertainment.