As far as beginings go I started off Playing Doom. I was a master of the game at a mere 6 years old and then wolfenstein came out. I was hesitant to move over and found a delicate balance between them. Just as I finished wolfenstien for the fifth time, Quake was becoming popular as it introduced Class Based play. I jumped ship from single player to the world of quake and was amazed.
The one even that I would say shaped my life and really kept me in gaming was the release of Half Life on 11-19-1998. This was a single player quake mod created by a very young and ambitous "Gabe Newell". We all know where his young company went from there.
Then, the world of gaming changed for me forever in April 1999 with the release of Team Fortress. In those days it was a Quake mod where every character was the same size, the spy could fiegn death, the sentries (IMO) looked much cooler than they do now, and there was the imfamous poisen system. I played TF avidly and got into the midst of clans in late '99.
My first clan based gaming expirence was in a group that called themselves the "Puny Insinorators" or the -P|I-. So, my name back in the day was.
DoomBringer -P|I-
With time my tags and clans changed as several times the clans disbanded. Oddly enough I've run across some of those guys from -P|I- a couple times and there is a clan somewhere that recycled that tag from us.
And the, if not to add to the glory of online multiplayer class based games - Day of Defeat was released for download in early 2000. I had heard speculation of the game in many chats while in game in TF. When someone AIM'd (AOL Instant Messanger - That really shows my age) me the link for the download I remember saying, outloud mind you - " 'smirk' yeah right, I give it a week" It diddn't take me that long to become addicted. The new MPCBG included deployable BAR's, bayonetts, Amazingly accurate sniper rifles, time accurate maps, and custom sounds/speach. I had to learn to force myself to stop playing one in order to play the other.
At the time of the 1.3 I was in a clan that called ourselved [1st SB] or the First Strike Battalion. We were orignally a group of guys who played the game and we're TRYING to test the new VAC system. It was simple back then, but no hack AT THAT TIME could get around it. We see how long that lasted. As we played more together we began to do what was called "Reality Play" now called "realism".
In an odd twist of events, I remember one day browsing the forums here and saw that JohnT and Artimus were originally part of the Resistance Platoon - a group we faced often. It saddens me that I can not say more to it than that but it would be like me talking about NADES or SCE or USMC right now. Most of you don't even know who they are, they are allies in our INS department.
In late 2003, Steam was in it's early beta stages and reveloutionized the world of gaming. "iTunes for Games" it was called. We at 1st SB all got set up with steam and it made our lives ten times easier, save for the constantly broken IM system.
Then in mid 2004 rumors began about Valve developing a new revoloutionary game engine. Being as we played quake mods, we had no idea what could be better. In mid 2005 Day of Defeat: Source was released via steam. We all gave it a try and with in two weeks all of 1st SB had moved over to source and we were talking servers. We had serious disscussion about starting up something serious. This is where my break started, My mother was diagnosed with Stage IV (terminal) Breast cancer in early 2002. It became very serious and consequently we moved to Texas in late 2002.
At fourteen years old I was more than happy to put down the headset for her and go to all of her chemo theropy sessions. I held her hand everytime the docor came in to tell her what was next, how her blood tests went, anything. I remember the room she went to chemo in, it could not have been more ....MEH!. It was battleship grey with her favorite chair over in the corner, right under the airvent. After six months of chemo, her hair fell out. I saw the absolute hearbreak when she looked at the hair brush that day. That night I shaved my head bald, and wore beanies with her everytime it got cold.
My mother, my best friend, the person i was closest too ever -- Died at the cold hands of Breast Cancer November 11, 2004. I had been talking to her only two days earlier that the two year anniversary of Half Life was coming up.
I did not play a game again until about a year ago when a buddy of mine said he had just bought DoD on steam. That acronym and that word brought back a whirrling rush of memories too great to pass up. I learned it was source when I got there. I got my computer in late 2008 and began to play DoD:S again in the first days of 2009.
Now you can find me everywhere, From TF2 to DoD:s to CS:S to CoD. I play them all and love them all. Sometimes, when I'm tired from playing.... I'll put the old -P|I- tag on my name and then change my name to
DoomBringer -P|I-
Just to bring back memories, to sit and remember those times. To sit and remember those who brought me to where I sit today, typing this for you all to hear.
Gaming may not be an ample place to start their bio for most people, well to that I must say that I'm by no means like most people.
Remember,
Any Game, Any Time
RIP: Kari Ann Calloway
5-20-62 ----11-11-04
) I got it in July 08, joined eGO Nov 08. My favourite wespone then was the thompson and map was flash 
