Over the years I’ve learned that there are many different kinds of geeks, and I’ve spoken about this multiple times in the past. So many people think that if you are a geek on one topic, you’re a geek in all topics… umm… nope. You see I consider myself a geek when it comes to comic books, and Star Trek. When it comes to stuff like manga, Stargate, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer- no so much. In some cases it’s because they reached peak popularity when I was busy with other things. It’s not that I don’t appreciate other pop culture things, but I just may not have spent enough time to become a geek. One of those blackholes in my geek rep is video games. I’m old enough to have played “Pong” and an Atari 2600… but you see I had an older brother. My brother was really good at playing video games, to a point where it was easier to just not play. So while I did play some games, I tended to avoid video games at home. A few years ago I even tried World of Warcraft with my older brother. I dropped out because he had already maxed out his character and would swoop into to “help” and it just stopped being fun. I felt like Parzival hanging around killing off kobolds and waiting for them to respawn to gain experience. Soon I decided it wasn’t just my brother being helpful, but I was too much of an introvert to deal with the social aspects of MMORPGs. For the record my favorite arcade game growing up was the Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator, which was a simple vector graphics reimagining of Spacewar. Although I did spend a lot of tokens in the Star Wars X-Wing simulator (sitdown version).
