Years ago, my parents got me a Compaq Presario. It’s Pentium 1, that time considered as quite high technology already. It cost about SG$3,000 I think. Well, computers weren’t exactly the cheapest thing in town I guess.
That time was still Windows 95. I don’t know much about computers. The only thing I recall doing is to play one game of solitaire after another. You can’t blame me you know, that’s one of the few games I have in my computer.
Compaq bundled that SimCity 2000 Constructor Kit but it’s absolutely useless without the SimCity game itself. Why the hell do I want to construct buildings for SimCity 2000 if I don’t have the game?! What are theCompaq people thinking?
Then there’s another game that got me totally addicted, even up till now. Minesweeper. Finding mines have never been so fun.
But these are very basic games. After a couple of months with playing Minesweeper, I start playing online games at Shockwave.com. Didn’t play for long though.
One day, I called up my friend and ask him if he has got any good games. He recommended to me Age of Empires. So I followed the instructions and install the game.
That copy of Age of Empires is a pirated version. That time I really have the idea that pirated games are okay. Please don’t sue me Microsoft, I got yourAge of Empires game later from the stores and it’s original. [Note to Microsoft: If you sue me, please withdraw your lawsuit soon. After which, send me an Xbox and tour me around your research faculty.]
Then, there’s also the all popular Red Alert. Most of my classmates are playing it. To tell you the truth, I kinda suck in that game. All I know how to do is to build Tesla coils and watch my enemies get fried. I really like the sound effect too.
Most of the games I play requires me to build and build, raze and raze building. I like those types of games. Up till today, I still play this type of games.
I upgraded. Age of Empires 2 came. SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4 came. Red Alert 2 and its expansion pack came. Windows 2000/XP/2003 includes Spider Solitaire which I find to be more interesting than the version of Solitairethat was originally bundled with Windows 95. The only game that doesn’t change is Minesweeper I guess.
In the Visual Basic Programming module that I took in school, we’re forced to make a space game for a graded assignment. I worked alone for that one. It’s a game called “Alien Attack”. I’ll post it for download soon. I need to update some codes as the high score system does not save high scores in your computer. It reads and submits the high score to a Microsoft SQL database that can only be access in school.
This is the 3rd game I made, the most complicated one too. The first was Hang man, then followed by this 4 by 4 game with tiles and you have to move them around to arrange them in numerical order after it’s shuffled. Both are inFlash. The Alien Attack game is made using the not-so-basic Visual Basic .Net language. I’ll post it soon. 
Thanks to all whom have commented on my previous post.
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