Here’s a confession: I don’t own a game console. Coming from a male designer that must sound pretty weird. Almost every guy I know owns one — well, at least one. Especially my fellow web designers/developers. I’m more of a comic book guy (d’uh). I do get the appeal though, and often entertain getting an X-Box, or a PS3, but I don’t have the patience to sit through a whole game. I can take racing games or a beat-em-up like Street Fighter, but thats about as long as I last. When my brother Tim got his PS1 all I did was sit with him, watch him play and look at some rendered cut scenes. I like my computer games to be simple, just like when I vegetate in front of the TV: for a little time I want to have a mental rest and just let information or entertainment wash over me before I crawl back in front of my computer and stress the few brain cells I have left. The only time I really played games was on the NES, with its simple side scrolling 8 Bit action.
So here are (in no particular order) my all-time favourites: