Games Day 2021
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Around this time work suddenly became this very serious proposition as I immersed myself into areas that interested me far less because the money was so much better and voila ...
I was no longer a gamer due to time constraints.
I have known a lot of gamers in my life. I had a good friend when I worked at Bechtel who had a computer and all the stuff required for superior gaming experiences ...
Even a fully functional steering wheel with gear shifting and accelerator/brake pedals. I was amazed at the realism before the computer screen when he sat in the yoke of his car or airplane controls and demonstrated a few of his favorites.
Earlier there was an acquaintance and colleague when I taught at the local technical college who was a fantasy role playing game aficionado and authored several very popular iterations of the early role playing games.
He migrated to a support role with one of the school districts in the state and died quite young from a massive coronary. I always suspected his physician wife of ridding herself of his less than hygienic rather greasy presence.
Now the massive multiplayer games predominate the genre. It's just too much for me to personally track because I have too many other irons in the fire.
Suffice it to say a lot of those I know have their favorite game and play it frequently. Too many I know use their phones as gaming devices.
These days I'm far too busy writing markup and code in an attempt to remain technically relevant in my old age.
Today marks Games Day, a gaming convention held annually under the ausipices of Games Workshop who has a number of game franchises and markets all manner of battle alliance games.
Games Day has been in operation since 1975 which is an astounding length of time for a gamer institution.
I think it's good that interest has exhibited such longevity.