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I first started video gaming around 1978 by playing arcade games at seaside places around UK.

A year or so later, my parents bought me a few handheld video games, one was called Invaders1000.

Around 1980 my parents got the video console bug and bought us an Atari 2600 console.  What a machine it was!  Some fantastic games were available on it over the 1980's.

At the arcade I enjoyed playing Pac Man, Asteroids and Galaxian. 

The first Home computer I used (and first keyboard I typed on) was a BBC B Micro in 1984.  Christmas 1984, Father bought us a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k.  Football Manager was a fantastic addictive Spectrum game I loved.  And JetPac was the first Spectrum game I completed.

Nintendo Game+Watch series looked fab so I bought a Nintendo Snoopy Tennis handheld.

I used a RM Link 480Z computer at school and later on the RM Nimbus.

2 Christmases later in 1986 I was given a Sinclair Spectrum 128+2.  Proper keyboard heaven I was in, and less multi-loading of games.  There were many many Spectrum games I got addicted to over 6 years:  Gunship, Laser Squad, Starglider, Robocop, etc.

During School lunches I would travel to the local arcade to play arcade games like Outrun.

In 1989 I went over to the dark side and got a Commodore Amiga A500.  I enjoyed the Kick Off 2 football sim.

In 1992 I bought myself my first PC, a second-hand Olivetti 386-16mhz SX.  I got addicted to a 3D FPS called Wolfenstein 3D.  Later on I played my first LAN PvP game of Doom 1 (or was it Doom 2).  I did play both and enjoyed them.

Mid 1990's I did play often at the arcade, I was a very good at Time Crisis, less good at Street Fighter 2! (haha).

On the PC my wife and I enjoyed playing Bubble Bobble games on an arcade emulator. 

Between 1996-1998 I began playing games online for the first time.  I was an online video gamer playing Duke Nukem 3D PvP over a 33.6kbps modem.  And also playing Quake on LAN at the University halls I studied in.  My video gaming name was 'Redeem'.  I later joined a Clan the infamous 4Kings playing Quake 1, although that was short-lived (I didn't have the free time).

Over the years I bought many PC's and laptops.  And pre-ordered the Sony PS2 around 2001 before it came out in UK - what a fab console!  And my first DVD player! haha.

And then bought Grand Theft Auto 3 (GTA3) and got very addicted to it, and later on GTA3 Vice City).

Around the same time I got into Counter Strike online, which I played on and off for a few years (a terrific multiplayer FPS!).  And I played and completed the lovely FPS game Max Payne.  Around 2003 I started playing Laser Squad Nemesis (LSN) online up until 2006.

In 2004 I got a Nintendo DS, followed later on by a Nintendo 3DS and a Wii console.  Yes I loved Wii Sports and Mario Galaxy.

Between 2005-2007 I was playing a lot of Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, my character was usually a sniper.

Briefly around 2013 I got briefly into the reboot of X-Com playing it on my laptop (I still want to complete that game!).  I then changed my video gaming name to 'TeaBoyLee'.

I then bought a Sony PS3 for the blu-ray element part of it.  And a Nintendo 3DS XL.

In 2019/2020 I did play Heroes and Generals WWII a FPS multiplayer online game that I really enjoyed.

In 2020 I changed my video gaming name (final time!) to 'PixelDino9797', and got the dinosaur logo (from getting a Google Stadia online account)

Also in 2020 my brother-in-law convinced me to get a Google Stadia, and I was addicted to Cyberpunk 2077 and it fantastic graphics on my TV.  RDR2 was also brilliant on the Google Stadia.  But sadly a few years later Google decided to close down Stadia, and so I had to look for alternatives.

I became a Nvidia GeForce Now PC gamer (on my laptop) and also around 2023 I bought a Nintendo Switch.  I started playing the game DayZ.  And Zelda on the Switch.​

 

*** LATEST NEWS ***

Christmas 2025 I got The Spectrum (a remake of a ZX Spectrum) as a present, so in 2026 I will be playing ZX Spectrum games again on a TV, plus occasionally playing various games on Switch, 3DS/DS, GBA and laptop (GeForce Now). 

 

I am working in a team creating our first new video game together, an 8-bit type 2D platform game, coming soon under ByteSizeFreddySoftware (https://bytesizefreddysoftware.com)

 

If you find me online on a video game, come say 'hi!' to this 50+ year old something greying haired gamer.

I can be contacted on email: pixeldino9797@gmail.com.  My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PixelDino9797

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Last thing, you can read more about me at my homepage/website here.