February 13 1998 - What a wonderful day --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My day started off pretty well today. School was a struggle, as usual. But today i had something to return home to. Two days ago i was at a friends house, he introduced me to a little game that later on changed my entire life. I remember first time seeing the game, My first thoughts was, is my friend nuts? This isn't a real game i thought. The game had simple 2-D graphics. And the basic idea of the game made me want to burst out into laugh! What kind of game is this actually? Driving around on a funny looking bike collecting apples. (At least this is what i thought back then) The main character of the game was a funny looking fellow. My friend used to play it 24/7 and while he was playing he was laughing, crying, screaming and so on. So i thought, well what the hell, i'll give it a try! So i sat down and started playing, i think i banged my head over 250 times during 10 minutes of playing. The internal levels didn't appealed me so much so i went home, during the night all i could ever think of was how c0ol to make own levels. I started drawing sketches of own levels, i made perfect bumps, perfectly placed apples and so on. Next day when i went to my friends house we took turns playing one hour each. During my play his computer kinda went stupid and we had to start it over. This time when i started the game i found something interesting, in the options there was something called the editor. I asked my friend about this and all he could do was shake his head and say that he didn't know. I slowly pushed the down arrow towards the editor option, my heart was pounding for each push i made on the arrow. Finally i was there, and when it accured to me that i could make my own levels i was so happy i almost fell out from his yellow plastic chair. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 21 1998 - Big change in my life --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was almost one week since i played that wonderful game. Life was nothing like the joy of staying at my friends house until late at night just creating whatever popped into my head. My parents had forbid to go to my friend, coz they tought that something strange was going on. But today was a special day, my friend had got himself internet. And i was filled with joy when i ran over 4km to his house. I rang the doorbell all sweatty. My friends mom anwsered the door. I kinda pushed her away and ran into my friends room and he welcomed me. I sat down beside him and started taking time until my turn. On over had passed and i shoved him away from his own computer :D I sat down, started the game and went straight to the editor. Something was wrong here, everything looked so different. The list where it only used to be some levels called Ali.lev and pyramid.lev was filled with other names. I looked over to my pal and he had a big smile on his face. I rushed into the external levels and started playing. I really liked what i saw. One level though that made me put so much effort in my levels designing was a level called titanic.lev i think. It had so much c0ol stuff in it i could cry. This was really a big change in my life! The name of the game was Action SuperCross. ---------------------------------- Ali Dorani AKA nemo^, nem0r- 2001-11-14