I started playing games around 1990, when my Dad brought home an NES. In the 1990's I owned a Sega Genesis, and gaming PC, and later the N64. I got hooked on strategy games early, before PC technology could even allow for RTS. I played a lot of turn based games in the golden age of Sierra gaming. Games like Outpost, Mission Force: Cyberstorm, and Dark Forces consumed hours of my summers. By the time Starcraft and Age of Empires came around, I was locked in as a strategy gamer.

As I entered high school in the 2000's, I played quite a bit of console games as well. Formerly a die hard Nintendo fan, I took a big risk in 2000 and passed on Nintendo's latest and greatest console, the Gamecube. Instead I rolled the dice and bought something the none of my friends had ever herd of: the xbox. I bough it on release day, along with the only game that mattered at the time: Halo.

As the years passed I returned to PC gaming, many in the strategy space. I still game on all my consoles, where I enjoy RPGs and shooters like Destiny, Fallout, Borderlands. My current favorite PC games are Stellaris, Cities Skylines, Hearthstone, and XCOM 2.