Happy National Video Games Day!

I spent most of my day driving my virtual Freightliner Cascadia around the American West while listening to audiobooks. Been a gamer since my mom gave five-year-old me a couple of quarters and pointed me at a Pac-Man machine while she settled the bill at a Chinese restaurant and got my first home console, an NES, for Christmas 1988.

But what really made sure I'd be a gamer for life was getting a good quality gaming PC in 2003, just in time for one of the best years in PC gaming history in '04. My last console was a PS2 and I've been PC-only ever since.

And, of course, one of those 2004 classics was Sims 2...