SlickWhiteRabbit

I finally got the three game sI mentioned in a previous post working, but it took me until I installed Win 8 a few months ago (apart from the Need for Speed game which I sorted a week or so after the post. That just needed an extra line added in my registry. The fix I found in the Steam forums. :)

update on my Steam games. My total count is now 3629 games, but that includes dlc's and I think strategy guides. the actuial number of games after you take away the extra's for each game comes to 2025 as of the 14th June (I'll be adding more soon, with pre-orders to sort and the summer sale on the horizon probably the end of June).

I've also recently found a good community of gamers mainly hailing from the Game Collectors group. Guys (and Gals) with a thousand plus Steam games and god knows how many from other sources. If they are anything like me, they will probably have thousands. Though recently I've been confining my purchases to Steam and Desura unless the game isn't available from these sources. (e.g. Origin)

18 months into backing my first kickstarter, now i've backed over 70. Though have cut down on the numbers recently simply becasue it was getting expensive. The draw of extra goodies on the higer tiers was getting tempting. :)

I'll still continue to back some projects, but only those I think will be brilliant. The rest I'll purchase when they appear on Desura or Steam.

Thank you so much for such a great review to HyperSonic 4.

Since I discovered Kickstarter I've started to support Indie developers by sponsoring several games. I only discovered the site last month and already have committed to sponsoring 10 different games including Takedown, Wastelands 2, Kenshi, Baccilus plus others. I'm even thinking of doing one of those game development courses as I'm quite interested in creating some of my own games. I have several ideas, but don't feel i have the ability to do anything about it yet.

I've been a gamer since I started playing four player Mahjongg (using real pieces), Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and a dumbed down version called Tunnels & Trolls way back in the late 70's as well as games like Kingmaker.

I got my first computer in the mid 80's, an Einstein 84 (that was 84Kb of memory, lol). Still I loved the games I purchased such as chess games, a text based game called Island of Artuan and other simple games like worms and asteroid clones. The Einstein was the first computer to use hard cased floppy discs. There were many games that I enjoyed playing from the BBC to the Amiga (most notably F19 and Robocop) plus one of my first true desktop PC games from the early 90's called Darklands (which to my annoyance has since been hoovered up from the abandonware sites and added to GOG's catalogue).

Since a serious road traffic accident over six years ago took my ability to move around effectively I've bee housebound and consequently became more involved with gaming; helping out modders of games like Battlefield 2 and Crysis, testing mods and maps. I also beta tested for some of the big guns such as Ubisoft and E.A. Games as well as several small game houses such as Alawar, Pie-eyed games, 2DBoy and Dejobaan Games .

I found games helped to distract me from the ever present pain which arose because I wasn't treated for my injuries (the hospital missed four fractured vertebrae - two badly) , and consequently I've been left in a permanent state of disabled-ness . Now I live for games. With around 2000 Steam based games (it says 2222, but that includes dlc's) plus a couple of thousand more from arcade games to triple AAA games, hard copy and digital, with many more to purchase I'm never at a loss for something to play.