A gamer since '78, a proud Father in '92 and '94 and an even prouder Grandad in '18 and '20.

It must have been around 1978 when I first defended planet Earth from Invaders from Space. Since then, over a long and varied career, I've been a rather Manic Miner around the time I had Jet Set Willy, I've driven fast cars generally not fast enough, slain mighty beasts (and provided dinner for a few), taught Tiger to play golf and, like Tiger, pumped the odd babe or two (both sexes), shot lots of bad guys.....and good guys, taken more hostages than I've rescued, planted many bombs but didn't defuse enough, ran around robbing banks whacked out on scooby snax, taken enough meds to sink a battleship, sunk many battleships, conquered the World (several times), rewritten history - generally for the better, stopped time, created life, never religious but reincarnated a Groundhog number of times, given birth to several great civilisations and a few failed ones, been both a despotic dungeon keeper and a wise Leader but never at the same time, routinely travelled faster than the speed of light, defended Earth from all sorts of nasties and even explored unknown sectors off Orion's shoulder.

All in a day's,

but more often,

an evening's work.


I pretty much only play casual CSGO.

For those of you that have read this far, please take a moment to consider.

I'm 57 years old and I've been playing video games since the age of 12. I don't feel I'm particularly good but the thousands of hours, over a lifetime, means that on occasion, I may play well. Don't leave nonsense messages about cheating* on my profile, please.

Always strive to be a decent human being. Thanks, Mark.

* I may be guilty of writing a few choice formulas on a ruler 45 years ago.