oh, the nostalgia...

i still remember the first time i used a computer. someone in my homeland, around eleven years ago, had the idea of using the computers of the informatics classes that were taking place at the evening in the town hall to entertain the kids - like me, mind you -during those hot summer afternoons. i remember entering the room along with an old friend and picking the only computer that seemed interesting - the one where someone had forgotten to quit duke nukem. the first videogame i ever played on a computer (had watched my friend playing doom on his aunt's pc, so i knew the type). i remember that the lady in charge of us tried to make us write in the computer and to do other crap like that - and we did it, faster than anyone else, only to be back to our game. oh, the good times (if i ever tell anyone again that i have no good memories from my childhood, slap me in my face twice and remember me of the month i spent kicking, shooting, shrinking, freezing and nuking to oblivious the nefarious aliens that had invaded los angeles and turned nice whores into slaves). oh, the gore.

duke nukem was also the first game i bought when i finally got a playstation - seems an eternity ago (aging is restless). it gave me a lot of good moments - discovering the secrets, finally finding the solution for the first level of the fourth area, nightmare zone - trully a nightmare for over two years. of course, it is a basic game, an old game that, just like many others, rocked when they were released, but now are relics of the past, as the technology improved and games better in every way came out. still, sometimes i still miss playing it, to scatter alien guts with the devastator's rapid fire while duke - good old duke -kept saying those evil dead-like punchlines.

hail to the king, baby!