Tales from my little big computing history

I started playing Commando around the age of six on my brother's Commodore 64. Later on I played classics like Commander Keen, Civilization and Monkey Island on 286 clone-PC. Gaming wasn't the only thing I liked to do. I also liked to draw pixel-graphics with Deluxe Paint.

At the same time I had the first experience in programming with C-64 BASIC. Later on I learned to program with QBasic on 286-machine and we competed with my friends who writes the coolest programs. My friends gave up programming after some time, but I progressed to Turbo Pascal and programmed with it for few years. Later on I found out that TP is also very restricted enviroment to code in. So I gradually learned to code with C and I've been on that road since. Nowadays it's of course more like C++, Java, PHP, SQL and so on, but the road is the same.

Some say that when you grow up you'll forget about games. I think that can be true for many, but not for me. Nay! I have a keen interest in the history of games. Mostly because they're really just fun, but also because games has had rapid evolution from the wild innovative garage days to a billion-dollar industry. Because I really like games I also like to collect them, so I have a quite large collection of original games on many platforms. Mostly on PC, but some on Amiga, C-64, PS1, PS2, SNES, NES, N64, Megadrive etc.

Of course when you are really enthusiastic about games then you must play them on the original platform and not just with some emulator. I don't mean that that emulators would suck or anything, but just it's not the same feeling you get when you try to play the game on a totally different kind of display using strange controls. So I also have collected some hardware to run these games. You can see what I've collected at Codise's Game Museum. Game donations are happily accepted.

Last updated: 2009-02-09