My first real gaming experience was the demo for Populus: The Begining foor computer. Damn I loved that thing, and my dad let me get it (first non-educational game), and the next game was the almighty Starcraft(why are Blizzards games so [i]good[/i]?) After that I had a steady diet of decent RTS's, mixed in with platformers and racers on an snes and playstation until my friend lent me Half-Life. Oh valvE, you will always have a special place in my heart, even though you have the worst PR of any company ever. Then it was pretty much only FPS's after that, with a couple of rpgs for balance. Right now I'm trying to beat Diablo, so I can move on to Diablo 2 (Damn the -blam!- Butcher is [b]impossible[/b] to beat)