There are moments where I miss playing video games. I've been a gamer since I was about three or four years old. I remember playing with my brother and cousins many types of games. I even remember that my father used to be very good in Dr. Mario, he never liked video games but in that game he was a master, he stopped playing because he forced his eyes a lot.

Some of the first video games I played were Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt, Pac-Man, an old Flintstones game for MS-DOS and also a weird game with a cat that had to jump over trash cans. In my childhood I played all sorts of games: sports, adventure, fighting, racing, role play, fantasy, war and I remember that I didn't care about the gender I only wanted to have fun. Today I am more selective in what I play, I don't like to play sports or racing games, I also dislike games that can punish the player for simple mistakes, I do not deal well with frustration and to be honest I am not a very skilled player.

In my teenage years I started to discover the games that I really liked, in those years I found Role Playing Games: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Dragoon, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and also some adventure and fantasy games like The Legend of Zelda. These types of games became some of my favorite games. Later I discovered that I loved to level up characters and make progress in the games, if a game has that type of elements I will play it, even if it is an action game or any other type of game.

There is something special in games where you are able to start from zero and little by little make progress. With each strike become stronger, with each spell you are wiser and with each stealthy kill you become sneakier. I remember the first time I played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, it was not only a full world to explore but you could even level up by jumping and running all around. If you are not familiar with the level up system of that game let me try to explain it to you:

In the game you have skills and the more you use them you increase their level, after leveling up a certain number of skills you can level up your character and become stronger. I remember that I summoned a skeleton soldier to fight with me but instead I started hitting him with a sword, I threw fireballs at it or shot some arrows and I even let it hit me to level up my armor skills. It was fun because I could level up several skills at the same time.

Fallout and Skyrimg have similar leveling up systems but I will always remember Oblivion and it will have a special place in my heart.

Other types of games hat I really like are farm simulation games, or any other simulation but that also has RPG elements. I have played Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley and more recently Graveyard Keeper.

The following videos are from some of the games that I missed playing. As I talked in previous blogs I prefer spending time playing Blockchain games, but there are times where I miss playing regular games, I'm sure that soon I will also find time to monetize that content, either with blogs like this one, with videos and/or with livestreams. Gaming journalism has always been something that I have been interested in. Here are the videos: