Gamer’s Thoughts (A Haiku)


Joystick, keyboard, mouse Monitor screen glowing brightly. Just one more game-turn!

Old Gamers Never Die: My Ten Favorite MicroProse Games of All Time


Back in the late 1980s, my late father’s brother Sixto gave me my first personal computer, an Apple IIe with a color monitor, a joystick, and an ImageWriter II dot-matrix printer. It was to be used for college-related work – I had been staying on campus till 6:30 PM every weekday so I could useContinue reading “Old Gamers Never Die: My Ten Favorite MicroProse Games of All Time”

Old Gamers Never Die: My All-Time Favorite Computer Games


I have loved computer games ever since my father’s brother Sixto gave me my first personal computer – an Apple IIe with a color monitor and an Imagewriter printer – in 1987. At the time, I was still studying journalism at what was then called Miami-Dade Community College, and I badly needed a home computerContinue reading “Old Gamers Never Die: My All-Time Favorite Computer Games”