30 Games That Made Me Who I Am: 1994

We have a bit of time traveling to do for this one. Every other game so far is one that I played at least relatively close to its release in the US. Not so for System Shock, which arrived on the scene all the way back in 1994. But for me, System Shock didn’t come into focus until twenty years later in 2013 — at just the time and place when I needed it most. I don’t write about it often, but this is one of the realities of my life: I have depression. The kind of debilitating depression that at times makes