A Different Gaming Experience

So while i’m considered enough of a gamer for my parents to get on my case if i spend any amount of time on a console or at my laptop, once again i’m not part of the “gamer” crowd. I’ve never played any Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other big japanese/Nintendo titles that are considered an essential part of gaming sub-culture. I mean, back in my day, we had a PlayStation 1, and this was before the downfall of video rental stores, so the number of games we actually owned versus the number of games we played was very different. My first “japanese” game was Tekken 2 (and later Soul Calibur 2 at the local arcade at the mall), but for the majority, the games i played were PC strategy games: Age of Empires, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Warcraft 3. That sort of thing.