Brand New Start

Hi. I'm Serkan, a (former) mobile game programmer and a long-time gamer. The gamer side of me is what mostly defines me. As I can remember, I have been playing games for nearly 20 years. That's a lot of games and platforms we're talking about :) I must say, except from Commodore 64 -which I don't remember vividly because I was like 4 at the time-, SNES and Atari days were awesome. My first encounter with Mario and Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong, Goal! 3 and Popeye. There were so many other games that I can't remember the names now. Also playing with my cousin's Gameboy was extremely fun. She only had Paperboy by then but that game was a classic for me. I was having hard time just to pass the starting phase but it was so much fun.

In 1997, my parents got me my first PC. A Pentium 166MHz CPU with 32MB of RAM and a 2GB HDD. I don't remember anything else about this PC except these and the Turbo button. Today, I still don't have any idea what it does :D My first two games were FIFA 98 and Sega CD 3 in 1 with GT Racing '97, Little Big Adventure and NBA 97 or 98. I'm having doubts about the name of the NBA game because I wasn't able to play it at all. Then came Grand Theft Auto which was not that amazing for me at that moment but the second game is one of my all-time favorites.
Apart from all, "the one" game for me is Ultima Online. For me, UO is the best game ever considering all the games I've played. I played for years, like 5+ hours a day. Britain Graveyard and the Minoc Mines were always in my dreams. That was an amazing gaming experience for me and an absolute life changer. I will talk about how it was a life changer in a bit.

Another life changer event for me was when my parents bought me a Sony PlayStation. I don't remember the year of that but the important thing was why they bought it. The reason I got a PSX was that we were having a hard time upgrading my PC because of the cost and the ever-changing technology market. It was and still is hard to keep up with today's technology for me. I don't have enough money or my money spending priorities are different.
Anyway, the important thing was, I kept on playing games on it and lots of it and GTA 2 was one of them. For those who played, they already know what I'm talking about. For those who didn't, you are missing a great classic I must say.

The PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 times were/are great but the times I mentioned above are the key moments of my life as a gamer. Now I'm a keen Steam follower, wanting to play new games with brand new ideas and the games that I missed throughout the years.

Apart from that, I was a mobile game programmer for a year. Living my life-long dream, I developed 2 mobile games for Java-Symbian and BlackBerry phones, Highway Zombies: Massacre and Snowball Menace. Those were my first 2 games in my career as a game programmer and I am keen on following this dream so it will be one of the main subjects of this blog.

So, that's it for now and I hope to write more soon. For now, farewell.