1, 14, 20, 39, 43, 48, 67 for the video game asks!
Thanks for asking!! These are so fun.
1. First game you played obsessively? Neopets. Absolutely Neopets. I was so obsessed that my mother got worried about me (I was 9 years old), so she checked out the game, and she fell in love, too, with this silly little children’s game with point-and-click adventures and typing minigames and a dumb economy and cool comics. That was the first video game we ever played together, but not the last.
14. Favorite game music? Already answered! But I will also shout out The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which has a lovely soundtrack, too.
20. Game that you know like the back of your hand? There are several. The most recent one is Doki Doki Literature Club!, which I studied for a good two weeks, rifling through the code and decrypting background files--everything short of running a hidden audio file through a spectrograph, which I didn’t have (I googled the result there)--so that a friend of mine would feel less scared of it since it was made rational.
39. A sequel that you would die for them to make? Already answered!
43. Ever play games when you really should have been concentrating on something else? Oh, all the time in high school. All the time. Usually an MMO with my friends, but various Pokemon games also tempted me.
48. How long does it take your to customize your player character? Already answered!
67. Do you have a happy gaming-related childhood memory you want to share? I have so many. Gaming was and still is so important to me, and it’s given me friends and stories, so I have a lot of good memories. But the one that came to mind was probably when I was in sixth grade, and I got a phone call from the person who would become my best friend for the next five years. We’d both apparently gone to the store with our moms the day before, and we were talking about the fact that both of us got a new DS game to play, and that we were having a good time with the games. And then my friend started telling me about the beginning of his, trying to convince me that I should play it, too, because I’d like it. About two minutes in, I cut off his story, excitedly telling him exactly what happened next in the intro, because it turned out that we had bought the exact same game, and we were both so invested in it that we desperately wanted to share it with each other. We laughed so hard that my cheeks hurt.
