Then I picked up Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. I needed games I could play in small doses when I had some time. In 1996 we had our first child, and free time for gaming was minimal. I was a brand new teacher at the time, and I spent many of my evening hours grading papers and writing lesson plans. I played XCOM, Warcraft, and Star Wars:X-Wing for all of 19. In 1994 my wife and I had moved into an apartment and I bought my own new PC. My entire video gaming experience prior to this was Doom, which I had played at home as a huge time sink during my lost years immediately post-college. I had never owned an NES, so I was purely a PC game player. I didn’t pay for it – someone copied it to a disc for me and gave it to me (copy protection was barely a thing back in the MS-DOS days).
I first played Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans back in 1995.
