femalegamer

I swear I’m too young to be pulling the “I remember when…” card, yet I find myself doing it more and more these days.

I remember when children could entertain themselves in the car and not need a DVD player…

I remember when MTV and VH1 played, gasp, music videos…

I remember the passion and love that went into making a mixtape, unlike the sterile emotionless experience of burning a CD…

I remember when a 15-minute Internet outage wouldn’t cripple an office…

Most of all, I remember walking into a game store like Babbage’s or GameSpot and having shelf upon shelf of PC games to look at.

I have to admit, it actually saddens me that now that PC games have been relegated to one tiny shelf and every other platform imaginable has taken over. While I can appreciate that these other platforms add to the options and fill a need, I can’t help but feel that those of us who prefer PC gaming are slowly going by the way of the cassette. We’re being pushed out to make room for the new and shiny consoles.

Yes, we could move on to the new platforms as well, but part of me, maybe stubbornly, still prefers a game on a computer more than I ever could via a controller on a TV.

I find myself longing for the not-so-old days, when we had our pick of the bunch and weren’t limited by lousy selection, staring jealously at the neverending racks of PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii games.

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