The Cohhilition

Hello everyone I am old_fart_gaming. I was born in 1965 and I will be 50 on the 19th of August. Current I live in Texas but I am NOT a Texan. I am a gypsy of sorts. I started as a kid born to a military family that moved to where war a conflict was. My father's work with the government and the CIA was not a topic of conversation. As the other kids with families in the military we called ourselves "military brats". But you can call me Gerald. Most of us never made friends because we knew in a few years your family or your friend's family would move to where the next station. And there was no such thing as cell phones texting, or emails, or the internet as we know it today. So keeping oneself entertained was very important. In childhood I was fortunate to discover the gaming console PONG. Primitive by todays standards but to us it was mesmerizing! From the digitized square ball bouncing back and forth across the TV screen it only got better. The next console I remember the Intelivision. Not associated with Intel the processor company... I think? With it change-able game cartridges it was more digital worlds other than RL to deal with. NOW I could bore you to tears with the list of Sega, Nintendo consoles that stacked up in the corner.

In 1983 I saw my first computer. It was a very early Apple iteration A2E. 5 and a quarter floppies, whopping 256 megs of on board memory, keyboard. TVisc monitor, and processor/MB built into one unit. But things where going to change. After using everyone else's computers It was not until 1989 that I could finally afford to purchase my own. Soon after I discovered the world of BBS's. Modem driven dialup bulletin board sites. This is where you could interact with other dialup user. The potential was limited at best but profitable enough to keep me in computer hardware. When the internet opened up I used the BBS technics I had learned to get primitive website up and running with the new language called HTML By this time I only had a few minutes to do anything on the web since my job designing petrochemical structures in AutoCAD and later Microstation took all of my spare time. When I did have time I spent it playing PC games. Duke Nukem was probably the first game that I got hooked on. There was so many unmemorable gamed installed played them uninstalled. Untill MechWarrior did I find another game that I played way too much. But understand with the wife, babies, work, life in general I missed a lot of titles. This is where Twitch and the Cohhilition comes in. After being a gamer for so long it is hard not to be a gamer. With a spinal issue that relegated me to a wheelchair, my kids are adults and have moved on to their own lives, and losing my wife to a terminal condition. More than ever I find games are keeping me company.

Hello Brothers and Sisters of the Cohhilition.

Welcome! I've seen you in chat a bit as I lurk away.

Your post started really cool and then ended really sad. Biblethump.

I started off on Atari, then went over to Colecovision and then NES. My buddy down the street had an intellivision. It always seemed a lot more complex than the Atari, but was a fun "treat" to play.

After starting to watch twitch I found myself gaming more than I had previously. Watching the streams get me motivated to play games that I have on my to do list. I always seem to be a few years behind.

Hey Old_Fart_Gaming,

Glad to meet you! I've haven't been here long, but have gone through some of Cohh's old streams that I missed and I remember hearing your name around. Glad to see you are still a part of the community! Cohhilition is definitely more than just a stream team/community, but a family.

Sorry to hear about your loss. Many Good Vibes to you! You don't just have games, but the Cohhilition to keep you company as well!