Soledad's Journal

I've been meaning to write about topics from my childhood for some time now. I figured writing about something lighthearted like that might be good. For those of you who may not know I am 37 now. I grew up in the 90's. We didn't have a-lot of money, I would consider us lower income. We weren't able to stay on the computer for long - and honestly I don't think we liked to stay on all that much anyway.
I can't remember much when it comes to what sort of computer we had while growing up. It was pretty basic and starting off we mostly just had regular CD games for it. Some were educational games, some were demos and introductions to games we couldn't afford or get but overall most of them were Sim games. I think it started off with Sim safari and Sim park. Then it grew into the other Sim games like streets of Sim city and Sim copter. The titles make them pretty easy to understand but basically you created a park or a city and did stuff in it. Or in the case of Sim copter or Streets of Sim city - you would ride around in said vehicle and do whatever you wanted honestly. Sometimes I would just do my own thing - other times I would follow along with what the game asked of me. I loved Sim park and Sim safari the best, because of the animals -let's be honest - even as an adult I am a sucker for games or anything based around animals. I also played the Creatures game where you had an egg that hatched into a cute little monster like critter. Then you raised that creature along with others in this fantasy world. I also liked two other games - the one being called Afterlife in which you created a heaven and hell. I'm a bit surprised my parents let me get this game. At times it was somewhat complicated for me but I still enjoyed it overall. And the other one I also enjoyed playing was a game about the Titanic. It was mystery that you were on the ship and like an undercover spy and had to solve a mystery before the ship sank. I could never complete it regardless what I did. But it was a neat game and I was always interested in that famous sinking.
I wish I could remember more of the names of the games we had for our computer back then. At times I will catch myself thinking of them and trying to remember some details but it gets to be foggy at times. It was an interesting time to be a kid - having the in-between of growing up with little to no technology to then becoming a older child into adult and slowly getting into it over the years. We had dial up for the longest time and it was fine, taught us patience. I think I will write about more of my computer games that were downloaded and not on CDs another time soon.
Do you guys have any games from your childhood you'd like to share about? Computer or otherwise?

So two more weeks hopefully for Wiley until he get's his splint taken off for good. The fracture isn't quite where it should be with healing all the way. This was disappointing news but honestly didn't surprise me all that much. I am a pessimistic deep down in my heart and in situations like this it helps - as bad as that sounds. I can tell he's over it, just Thursday night before he had to go in for his x rays he started chewing off his tape around his splint - and so are we. But just a bit longer. This has been a tiring experience to say the least.