Hello from Wales
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:51 pm
A big hello to everyone here on the Möbius group. I've only just recently joined and haven't had a chance to meet any of you in-game yet, I lead a very busy life, working, kids, wife, dog, etc.
I come from a town called Llanelli in South Wales, UK. I started playing computer games when I was eight years old when I won a ZX spectrum in a fancy dress competition. I played games like Beach Head, The Hobbit, Football Manager, Match Day, Jet Set Willy and many, many others - indeed I still do sometimes when I get an itch to play some retro games on my tablet using Spectaculator.
When Elite came out on the Speccy, I was blown away, I was an avid Trekkie and loved space films like Star Wars etc, and space games like Star Raiders et all. Elite however, now that took me to places I could only dream of in dreams. Simple graphics now, but in those days they were ground breaking.
I stuck with the Speccy right up until it died and moved onto an Amiga 500, then the 1200, and put hundreds and hundreds of hours into Frontier. I loved the game and would play it from the early hours of the morning right through to the dawn next day, not very healthy I know - I did get sleep, but sometimes I had to put the time in because I used to do other things as well.
After the 1200 I moved onto consoles like the Mega Drive (Sega Genesis), and loved games like Star Control and Urquan Masters. I was always on the look out for Elite type games, sadly my Speccy died and my Amiga broke so I couldn't play them anymore.
Then around 15 years ago, give or take a year, I walked into my local games shop ( was looking for PlayStation games ) and noticed Freelancer for the PC. I just had to get a PC, this looked like the Elite type game I was looking for. I sunk hundreds of hours into this off and online, modded and vanilla.
And before I give you my gaming life story, after playing many many games ( I'll tell you about them another time ), and building and upgrading my many PCs I stumbled on the kick starter campaign for Elite Dangerous through a retro gaming forum, (at the time I was playing Frontier in Dos Box emulator) and grabbed my wallet pledging the last £50 I had in the bank.
Money well spent, I waited a year for Beta, and I am not disappointed. I'm a 40 year old, re living my youth - only this time its in high def.
Why pick a group like this.... Well, because I don't want the majority of my encounters with other humans to be hostile when the full release comes, and I want to choose when to PvP, as I will do that in a cheap ship and in a different group or open play as and when I feel like it.
I use the nickname Combiseries in all my forums and the web, but my name in the Elite universe is - Blood Vipre. I'm a bounty hunter, but I also like to trade, and explore as well.
Enough of me, how's you!!!!
I come from a town called Llanelli in South Wales, UK. I started playing computer games when I was eight years old when I won a ZX spectrum in a fancy dress competition. I played games like Beach Head, The Hobbit, Football Manager, Match Day, Jet Set Willy and many, many others - indeed I still do sometimes when I get an itch to play some retro games on my tablet using Spectaculator.
When Elite came out on the Speccy, I was blown away, I was an avid Trekkie and loved space films like Star Wars etc, and space games like Star Raiders et all. Elite however, now that took me to places I could only dream of in dreams. Simple graphics now, but in those days they were ground breaking.
I stuck with the Speccy right up until it died and moved onto an Amiga 500, then the 1200, and put hundreds and hundreds of hours into Frontier. I loved the game and would play it from the early hours of the morning right through to the dawn next day, not very healthy I know - I did get sleep, but sometimes I had to put the time in because I used to do other things as well.
After the 1200 I moved onto consoles like the Mega Drive (Sega Genesis), and loved games like Star Control and Urquan Masters. I was always on the look out for Elite type games, sadly my Speccy died and my Amiga broke so I couldn't play them anymore.
Then around 15 years ago, give or take a year, I walked into my local games shop ( was looking for PlayStation games ) and noticed Freelancer for the PC. I just had to get a PC, this looked like the Elite type game I was looking for. I sunk hundreds of hours into this off and online, modded and vanilla.
And before I give you my gaming life story, after playing many many games ( I'll tell you about them another time ), and building and upgrading my many PCs I stumbled on the kick starter campaign for Elite Dangerous through a retro gaming forum, (at the time I was playing Frontier in Dos Box emulator) and grabbed my wallet pledging the last £50 I had in the bank.
Money well spent, I waited a year for Beta, and I am not disappointed. I'm a 40 year old, re living my youth - only this time its in high def.
Why pick a group like this.... Well, because I don't want the majority of my encounters with other humans to be hostile when the full release comes, and I want to choose when to PvP, as I will do that in a cheap ship and in a different group or open play as and when I feel like it.
I use the nickname Combiseries in all my forums and the web, but my name in the Elite universe is - Blood Vipre. I'm a bounty hunter, but I also like to trade, and explore as well.
Enough of me, how's you!!!!
