When we were young in the seventies, I don't recall my father playing games with us. Back then, the number of older people playing outdoor or indoor games was visibly few. But as we grew up in a globalised environment flooded with cross-cultural ideas and entertainment, we turned out completely different from our fathers.

I am guy from Bangladesh. I grew up in Dhaka, a crowded and not-so-glamorous city (does not mean I don't love it) in South Asia. Most people from other parts of the world have a negative idea about my country. Well I tell you, you can do anything here and you can find everything here. So its no wonder that when PCs and gaming consoles came out in the mass market in the early eighties-- we actually came to use them within a year or two. My first video gaming experience came from an Atari console. That was, I think 1986/87. The first game that I got hooked to was a racing game called Enduro. Another game I loved was building an igloo house in the north pole avoiding attack by polar bears (can't recall the name). And then there was this submarine shooter game in the arcade which drained out a lot of my money.

I never liked Pacman much. I played it on Atari, then at the arcade and later in the PC. Never loved it for more than 5 minutes, by the way. And never found Donkey Kong to be extra-ordinary.  

My passion for video games waned by late eighties due to lack of availability of good games and as there was no "gamespot", I also did not know which games should I look for.

Then in 1992, I encountered Prince of Persia 2 on the PC. My idea about video games changed radically. So far video games meant playing one challenge with incremental difficulties. In Prince, I found story, drama and a good reason to spend sleepless nights. I realised then that only PC could offer such a game because the PC offers space (well back then, the HDD was my idea of space. other radical game consoles did not invade the market yet). 

But to feed my addiction to video games, I needed to have my own PC. Back then computers were costly-- mainly the computer benchmark was Apple. It was only in 1995-96 that I realised that Apple robs people and I should actually be buying a pro-people PC. So I got me one. From then on, I played innumerable games. I am a 40-year old game addict now-- though I don't quite spend as much time as student gamers can afford. But I am proudly a game addict. I also influence my 10-year old daughter to play PC games--- including Battlefield (which she plays quite well). I believe that a certain level of PC game addiction makes a person constantly PC-smart.