When I'm at home, I love playing action-oriented computer games.
I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.
When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.
I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.
Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.
When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.
Gaming notebooks aren't that abundant. Not that many gamers are able to play on notebooks.
No, I don't play video games.
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses.
I had Macs when Blizzard was pretty much the only company making games for Macs. I played all the Blizzard games, like 'Diablo II.'
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they are the same way. Games are where I want to be.
Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
I play a lot of role-playing games on the computer. And I always have.
I'm really good at World of Warcraft. Like, crazy good. Put me in front of a computer and it's like I enter some other universe.
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.
PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
