TOG - The Older Gamers

Like many of you who will read this, I enjoy MMORPGs. I've been playing them off and on (mostly on) since the late 90's. I started with Asheron's Call, took a detour through Everquest, City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies, and I have found a comfortable existence in Lord of the Rings Online, and World of Warcraft, with the odd attempt now and then to give myself a seizure in Perfect World. While some of you may count this a thin resume, I feel that it gives me a certain pedigree in the world of...

About two weeks back, I was going to meet some friends to see a movie. I, and another friend, arrived early, and as so often happens these days, out came the iPhone.

We played Battleship on my friend's iPhone. I mention this to illustrate two points; the first is that I rock at Battleship, I won four games to zip, and secondly, to show just how far portable gaming has come in my lifetime.

I still have my original Gameboy, and as of last night when I resurrected it with...

Since this is my first post, I thought that I would spend it with something akin to a mission statement, a Raison d'ętre of what I'm going to be talking about here, why I'm a Togger, and why I'm a gamer in the first place. I've written about some of this before, but its worth restating here, and I hope it will be an understanding and receptive audience.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I acted as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish...