At every stage of my life, I have played games. I have been a gamer but Am I a Pro-gamer?

I have stopped playing games for the last 5-6 years. 😕
I stopped playing games as I can get addicted to them. I have no self-control when it comes to games (and food 😜 ). Once I started working on my Startup, I wanted to spend more time on it rather than on games.

I remember I have tried all the ways – putting time blockers, Uninstalling a few of them but nothing worked. Finally, I deleted all and restricted myself from installing them.

But today, I checked one item from my wish list. 🤘🏼
I bought PS5 🎮 for myself. And it brought back many many crazy, beautiful memories.

At the age of 8-9 years, I was introduced to video games. Oh, man! Crazy time. Me, my brother used to play full day. I remember we have burnt a few adapters as well. We had to wait for a few days and sometimes a week as a punishment. Started with 10 games disc, then there was 99999999 games disc. 😀 I mostly played Super Mario, Contra, Olympic, Duck Hunt, and Tank (Save Eagle). I am sure I have missed many.

The video summarises my summer vacation at noon time, with 2 brothers in shorts and vests, friends waiting for their turn, and mummy busy in the kitchen.

During that same period or probably before the Video games, we had a Nintendo Switch-like device with a screen in pixels. It had very few games but was moveable and we could carry & play it anywhere, anytime. It was exciting. I think played Snake, Car-on-road kind of games in it.

When I was 12-13 years old, my brother bought a PC. It had a DOS. I played Prince of Persia, Dave, Skyroads, etc.
Prince of Persia is one of my favorite games even now. I still remember, clearing the last jump and pass before the door closes was the toughest part. I have spent hours and hours doing that.

Then, we got Windows XP installed on our PC. I have played Midtown Madness, GTA for some time, and played Virtua Cop 2. I just played and played. This resulted in poor academic results 😄.

With the same PC of 128MB RAM, we played Pocket Tank, 8 ball pool, and CoD in the initial years of my bachelor’s. Then I got a Windows Vista laptop with a Graphics card. 🤘🏼 A whole new gaming experience! Played NFS, Cricket, and Poker, and that too with the controller and joystick. Woohoo! I Played in tournaments, played against opponents and not bots, won challenges, and beat my friends at their games.
I learned to create LAN and WAN networks and play multiplayer games. With mobiles coming with good games, I played Tennis the most.

In my master, I played Counter-Strike, FIFA, WWE, Tennis, etc. We used to rent PS2 and play the whole night.

The last few games I played for a good time were Snake.io and PUBG in high processor mobiles.

I was very very good with almost all of them and I have beaten many good players. I couldn’t beat experts though.

Am I a PRO gamer? No.

But I am a PROud Gamer, for sure! 🎮
And I will definitely Play Like Never Before. 🍻