Strictly speaking, in the world between the glorious elite of gaming and the unfortunate slugs of console gaming (best illustrated
here), I am squarely in the latter category. Instead of a keyboard, I prefer a controller, which with 18 some buttons is confusing enough. But let it not be said that there are games that I like to play on a PC:
Minecraft,
Sims 3,
Civilization,
Plants vs. Zombies, etc. as well as a slew of Flash games that are constantly available on the Internet.
Unfortunately, my computer (to borrow my French roommate's current favorite English idiom) has bitten the dust. After a year of faithful service, it seems the motherboard has gone kaput.
In most circumstances this would be a lamentable time, but my husband wisely invested in some sort of protection plan from Dell which promised "next day service."
Our experience with the warranty was not virginal. This very computer had some sort of keyboard/monitor/I-can't-even-remember-what problem before and the issue was resolved professional and efficiently, making us happy in our decision to go with Dell for our laptop needs.
This experience has been anything but... with over ten phone calls to Dell customer support (which provides quality support like a
cat would make a quality surgeon), resulting in confusion not only over when our "next day" service would account for a technician being able to fix the problem, but indeed wether or not a part was actually in stock (dissenting answers from both sides were abundant).
So, considering all those systems in the house capable of playing video games, I really must give a shout out to Nintendo, whose products have rarely faltered (excepting in those cases wherein blowing the cartridge fixed whatever malady had presented). Despite its apparent lack of appeal to the "mainsteam" gamer, I've never failed to put in
Super Mario Galaxy and have results.
With any luck, I'll be able to explore
Minecraft 1.7 (with PISTONS) before long, and hopefully with fewer crashes...
