![]() so it was only at uni where one of my mates had one of these newfangled (to me) PC thingies and I watched with envy as he played, in particular, party-based RPG Wizardry VII and point and click adventure Day of the Tentacle that my interest in video games was revived. I'm totally going to try it using an emulator now I've thought about it again. And partly because I lost all my inventory when loading the second of, iirc, four cassette tapes it came on and could never finish the blasted thing. Partly because I loved that I could become one of the four hobbits and set out with my friends for Rivendell. I know I played a bunch, but the only one that really sticks in my mind was The Lord of the Rings. We did nevertheless have a bunch of (probably pirated) arcade classics for it, but for some reason the games that really grabbed me were the text based adventures. Our family got a computer when I was a kid, though it wasn't a gaming powerhouse like the Commodore64 or even a ZX Spectrum, but a nice educational BBC Micro. But as we all know, things went a very different direction, and that just set the mood and tone and my emotions for that game thereafter, because all I wanted to do was to hunt down you-know-who and pay him back.īG1 introduced me to cRPGs, and that's why the BG franchise has a special place in my heart. Leaving the safe walls of Candlekeep and "venturing forth" with my father felt so very safe, and I was expecting things to start out nice and easy and happy. What especially hooked me was the beginning of BG1. I started playing around 7 pm, and did not stop until the sun was coming up the next morning. As luck had it he needed me to house-sit for him, which allowed me the use of his computer while he was gone. In 1998 I was finishing up my grad school, and a good friend and fellow grad student was raving about this new cRPG that had just been released. Even that was very minimal because I had no money and couldn't afford my own computer, so I got to play video games only on friends' computers. Before that I had played D&D and other TTRPGs quite a bit, but my video gaming was entirely limited to wargaming. My very first RPG on computer, which also happened to be a game that blew me away, was BG1. May not get many posters, but I'll post my story.
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