Hardcoreness 0.o I'm about as hardcore as a wet flannel.
So anyway started gaming on the Amstrad CPC 464..... Damn green screen of doom :( still remember that wailing blooming tape as it loaded something.

Graduated from that to an apple mac when doom 2 was out, played Marathon 1 & 2 (never played infinity :( ) after that love them both, and also a megadrive where I found beat em ups and fighting games.

From there its onto PC and into strategy games along with western rpgs (I never played FF or any other jRPG's till FF7 hit PC, late I know but I didn't have a PS so ;P) big fan of baldurs gate and planescape, also played a lot of FPS quakeworld, quake 2, UT.
Then its onto Dreamcast more fighting games etc :) (soul calibur ftw :D)
Then an Xbox and currently the 360, also no I've never owned a sony console, before you think wheres the playstation here, missed a lot of games that were on the PS but had some issues long ago with a walkman with which sony were useless, so decided not to purchase from them again.......

If you wish to add me to friends list on Live please feel free, my friends list is rather small and could do with some more people, please tell me you're from destructoid though.