Hi peeps, I'm Lonnie. Born in 1986 and raised in Europe, Belgium. Still living there together with my girlfriend whom some of you may know as 
I was born in what I call "The Golden Age of Video Gaming". My family always had a desktop computer and it got upgraded and replaced quite a few times over the years. At first we had an 8086 desktop without any hard drive at all. The specs don't even come close to what they are today. We were not talking about Terabytes or Gigabytes. Even a Kilobyte was a "high-end" back then. GPU's? Never heard of them. Off course, I was still a little kid. There probably were GPU's, but nothing my parents could afford. It was on that 8086 desktop computer where I played my first video game: Soko-Ban.
Soko-Ban is a video game published by Spectrum Holobyte in 1988. It is a top-down puzzle game in which you play as a warehouse worker and you need to move boxes onto their designated spots through a maze. It was a simple concept and we all loved it and played it as a family. Taking turns when we would get stuck. There even was a map editor in which you could create mazes yourself! It was one of our common "Hobbies" to try and create a maze that was managable, but difficult enough to not have someone solve it the first try. The challenge is keeping it fair.
Owning a "Personal Computer" was one of the basic needs that ran in the family. Almost every branch of the family had some sort of PC. It was fun to have someone come over with a game they just got and play it together or just being able to borrow a specific game. Off course, not every system had the same specs and we found out the hard way. We once borrowed "The Games: Summer Edition" from our uncle, but our PC didn't have enough memory to do some of the events. They failed to load on our rig while they worked at my uncle's place.
These 2 games were some easy ones to start off with and there's still a lot where that came from. I've even started collecting some "Memories of my childhood" recently. I will save them for later posts.
Off course, I will not only talk about far away memories. I still practice the art of playing video games. Lately indie video games grab my attention more than mainstream ones, so don't expect me to go Call of Duty on you;) Some of the games I'm looking forward to, will even be released in September!
Pixel Privateers is a "Squad based tactical RPG" in which you control a squad of marines and have to take on missions to get funds and resources in order to upgrade and outfit your squad members. It has drop-in/out multiplayer support. One of the reasons I'm looking forward to this game is the simplicity of its graphics. The developers aren't trying to deliver the best looking game ever. They are, however, taking their time to develop it. The developers aren't too clear on when exactly the game will come out and they have been postponing its release as much as needed. They really are going for a release once everything is ready-ready. Not half-ready like some mainstream developers tend to do.
Another game that has my attention is "Mother Russia Bleeds". It is a pure brawler that has a pixel art art-style and goes back to the roots of the brawler. I'm talking about games like Streets of Rage, Final Fight or Double Dragon. I've played all of those games, whether it was in the arcades or on a video game console I owned. I'm looking forward to this game for its art-style, couch co-op capabilities but most of all for its blood and gore.
Anyway, thank you very much for reading this far. I hope you're as excited to see more as I am to writing more.
