My first - and the one that changed my life forever - experience with videogames was with a Vic 20 at my cousin's. She received it as a gift, and never spent too much time on it. I used to go to her house and play all afternoon with Gorf and Omega Race.
After some months my mom capitulated and bought me a C-64, where I used to spend a lot of time when I was a teen. I played with C64 and arcade games until 1995, when the first PC sneaked into my household. It was a Pentium@60Mhz with something like 16 MB RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive, a cutting edge multimedia kit (a 2x CD-ROM and a Soundblaster 16). Geez.

I've been working as videogame journalist since 1998, writing for one of the most prominent italian videogame magazines, The Games Machine. I'm still a member of its editorial staff.
Oh, eventually I managed to get a degree in software engineering ^___^

Best part of my life: my significant other and me got married on May 1st 2001. We have a delightful 5-year-old daughter. I love her, because she pretends to believe that I'm actually playing for work!

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Ludic stuff in my house:

• the PC listed above
• PS2 + 2 Guitar Hero controllers
• Xbox 360 (no GH yet, sorry)
• Nintendo Wii
• Nintendo DS

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Some of my favourite games (random and incomplete list, like ALL lists of this kind)

• DooM (1 & 2)
• The Last Ninja Series
• Dethkarz
• Zuma Deluxe
• Day of the Tentacle
• GranTurismo 3

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Now playing:

• Picross DS (well, actually *addicted*)
• Peggle Deluxe
• Colin McRae DiRT
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.