The Nostalgia Corner

For someone who had had the pleasure of gaming for more years than id care to admit, you get to playing a fair share of games across many platforms, so much so if this was a paying job i could sit and type reviews for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, but its not a paying job, its passion, its history, its nostalgia, my memories, our memories as gamers, a loading screen, intro music, that first glimpse of those 8/16 bit graphics and so on. I have recently stumbled across a very random website whereby i can type in a console/computer, even a genre of game and as many game as i want numerically and hit generate it boom up pops a list, and i thought to myself, this is good, this is great in fact, there are probably hundred of games I've completely forgotten about, i wonder if this is a way to delve into this gamers archive and see what initial memories are pulled out from it, review if from recollection as well as going back and having a go again to see how it measures up to those memories...

Happy Friday, which means one thing to this gamer, the internal battle come midnight tonight, wrestling with the decision to game on or get some sleep, usually gaming wins and I end up like a extra from the Walking Dead (even after my first coffee) the next day having went to bed close to 3am, my fellow gamers with kids will understand (unfortunately kids have no pause button) and gamers without well you will reach that level soon enough. I digress, on to my piece for today, first person shooters, get the formula right for a first person then its like printing your own money. first and third person shooters are everywhere now but rewinding to the 90's, not so much, which for me makes it a pretty special time for this particular type of game. Now the good thing about gaming is we are not limited to picking just one game, we are allowed to have love for multiple games, but I pose the hypothetical of if you had no other choice which first person shooter would you choose. I have ma...