@yahel_1 I also play for fun, but i am kind of an old gamer. Started playing a long time ago and games are still the place to go to relax.
I also love movies, anime, comic books, music and books. I was always interested into the gaming industry, but i never worked in it. My biggest passion was and still is history, though.
My first game was the ancient Pong, which was on a TV set owned by friends of my family. I've spent a good chunk of my childhood in Arcade Halls, been through quite a few consoles (Atari, 3DO, Neo Geo, NES, SNES, Master System, Game Gear and many others) and i've settled on PC in the nineties. I've still owned a few consoles now and then, but my interest in the console games lowered when there were more reflex oriented games and less stuff that would suit someone with my kind of reflexes. There are still a few titles that i play there from time to time (more of a PS fan, as they have a nice jRPG collection).
Back in the nineties, them main source of information were the gaming magazines, as internet was rare and only a few had access to it in our country. But once it spread, i've found a lot easier to find the needed information and check more points of views until i would decide what games i want to buy.
As you gathered, i love games. Any type of games. The things that i take in consideration: does it appeals to me, is any good (read decent gameplay), bugs, optimization. Graphics are a bonus, but due to the RPG's, TBS, RTT and RTS being my favorite genres, those are not that important. They need to be clean, with decent animation and not blocky. So i am not that demanding when it comes to graphics.
And history applies to a lot of things🙂. Like economics, society, psychology and so on. That's the beauty of it: it touches a lot of areas of our lives, but most people are not aware of that. It's also connected with a lot of sciences that is using in determinating the evolution of the human race and not only.
