OXCGN writer David Hilton does this months Blog Banter dealing with the advent of the "Next-Gen" consoles when they hit us a few years ago, and how that has has an effect of both family and partners.

Plus looks at the huge change in "attitudes" of the recent generations of Younger Gamers. So make sure you slip over to the site, and enjoy our monthly adult conversation.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, something amazing happened. My new wife and I re-discovered gaming together.

I had first played video games in the 1980s on my Apple IIe but lost interest when my parents didn’t keep up with the new computers. My wife had played the Nintendo Game & Watch console as a kid, but never was much of a gamer.

Then in the early 1990s, freshly married, we found that our new 486 PC could do more than Uni assignments. We could play games! We discovered that games had advanced from the pixilated Karateka and Donkey Kong.

We watched each other play Wolfenstein 3D (I had played the original Wolfenstein game as a kid on my Apple) and I designed levels for her to play using the map editor. We sat and enjoyed the Monkey Island and Indiana Jones adventure games together.

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