Number one.

This is just a practice article to kick off the blog. I don't have many great ideas for articles yet, but I suppose I should start with myself. This blog is not going to be about me, what movies I've seen, which of my friends are totally being too flirty with the popular kids, or all those negative connotations I have about what a blog "is."

Except this one.
I've been into video games for as long as I can remember. On second thought, that's actually a lie. I think I still retain a single memory before video games, something about wanting a cup of juice. It's all too foggy, but I digress.

My father would be the one I'd have to thank for my video game obsession. I hold no reservations on calling it an obsession, because I am in fact addicted. I shall seek no aid to cure this, however.

He's always been the type of person to have the latest technology, which means we had Nintendo. From the time I erased my fathers endgame save in Legend of Zelda before he was able to beat it, to the time I apparently experienced seizures due to the delicious flashing lights of a movie-based game by the name of Jaws, video games have had a close relationship with me. As I grew up, so did games, and my father was right there buying the new systems. Come to think of it, I have to wonder how much of his money he invested in something he hardly touched and left to me to enjoy. 3DO, Dreamcast, SNES, Gameboy, XBOX, etc etc. Despite having this technology, he hardly ever touched it. It's still something that sort of bugs me to this day. Was he buying these things for his sake, or for mine? The answer seems clear but I don't want to imagine such a selfless father that would sacrifice thousands of dollars for little 'ol me. That's just too righteous of a person and I have no way of paying my gratitude.

At any rate, however, because of this I was able to experience lots of new and beautiful and awesome things. As the years wore on, new games would come out that I'd have to wait forever to play because I had no source of income, television channels dedicated to this hobby would appear, and it would no longer be associated with the word "nerd" or "geek."

Glorious, I say, despite how many Halo jocks there are now, but I digress.

Did I mention I love digressing? I do. I cannot explain why, but it's an easy way to get out of a mess. In fact, I just thought of a neat slogan: "In a mess? Just digress."

Do not worry, I punished myself for saying something so silly.

I got into the Let's Play business because I discovered Deceased Crab's La Mulana videos. I was quite stricken by how fun it was to watch these videos and play alongside somebody who suffers like us John Everyman. Thank goodness for his videos, too, because if I were to play that game and not have a video guide, I would have lost my mind and ragequit the best indie game I've ever played. I digress.

So I looked for recording software, bought myself a cheapo microphone from Target, which to this day I still use, and found some weird moon-language game to play featuring a bunny-suit clad female in a metroidvania style game.

This has brought me a few unexpected things. 1. A fun hobby that I have enjoyed doing for more than a week, and 2. friends. There's an amazing group of people whom I talk with regularly who've all found me one way or another, be it on Steam, Xbox Live, or the livestream channel. I don't think I can find the right words to say how appreciative I am of their company and support. I've had some amazing multiplayer experiences, a few deep hardy laughs, and good life advice like starting a web log in order to gain a portfolio of writing work in order to spur my career as a video game journalist.

I think that wraps things up. From now on it's going to be about the actual video games and my impressions of them and the industry.

Oh, and here's links to the important parts:
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/hateworkboy
Livestream: http://www.livestream.com/HWBs_vidya_corner

a review which contains the download link of Bunny Must Die, A.K.A. Chelsea and the 7 Devils: http://indygamer.blogspot.com/2006/11/bunny-must-die.html