Do you remember these six games whose names are legendary today as well as Gloria?
The other day we reported together as an editor how our love for games began. When I read the stories of the others, I realized that there are a few differences and that I now belong to the slightly older part of the team with my Tetris memory! Accordingly, the game titles of my childhood are a bit older, but by no means worse.
While Commodore and Amiga ruled children’s rooms in the early 1990s, one day my dad brought home a PC of all things for work. I was deeply disappointed as I was hoping for a computer that would allow me to play the games I knew from my classmates.
Yes, classmates, I write it that way on purpose. Because I was the only girl in my class who was interested in gambling. That made me the least cool kind of unicorn because I didn’t fit in with either the girls or the boys. For the girls, I didn’t care enough about boys and makeup (the cliché was very real!), and the boys weren’t sure they should like a girl breaking into “their” hobby and wanting to have a say. That being said, nerds like me were generally looked down on.
At that time, the hip kids were watching »Beverly Hills 90210« and »Baywatch«, instead I was looking forward to the weekly episode »Star Trek: The Next Generation« on ZDF. When my parents gave me my first game for my birthday, apart from crude freeware on disks from gaming magazines, it was of course a Star Trek game that I still like to remember. Today it is the first of six legendary games that shaped me like no other.
#6 – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
When asked which series influenced me the most as a child, I always answer: »Star Trek: The Next Generation!« Captain Picard’s crew showed me the value of empathy, ethics and diplomacy when dealing with new civilizations and the Solving tricky problems. At first I only got to know Captain Kirk and his people from books.
It was all the more exciting for me to steer the important people of the first Enterprise through the game world. Here, however, the phaser or the photon torpedoes were often used and I quickly realized that the spaceship battles were not my thing at all. I was such a bad shit in fights that my then-me would probably be very irritated by my now-me if I could see me shooting down half the town in GTA Online!