First of all I would like to thank you once again for your exceeding generosity foxworks by further expanding the giveaway with two draws instead of just one and also I really appreciate it that you don't have any rep requirements which allowed me to enter. Now I have never played any of the Tex Murphy games before but I am really interested to have a go at them as they deem like great detective style adventure games and also have been recommended by many folks here including yourself and another friend as well. Therefore, I would also like to add my name to the list of hopefuls for Tex Murphy: The Tesla Effect.

As far as memorable gaming experiences are concerned there are quite a few but I will share a particular one that I still remember in vivid detail to this day:

This one is related to the original Max Payne game on PC, I remember when it released and I got a hold of it was when I was still in school and my exams were coming up soon. But, I made the mistake of installing and starting up the game to play it, from the emotionally gut wrenching start of the game with the amazing graphic novel style cutscenes and fantastic narration by the main character Max I was hooked, and then when I first got to try out the bullet time feature it just blew my mind. The matrix was still fresh in my memory and as a kid I was a big fan of the movie, so to have a game in which you could actually do the cool stuff like that was just too good to getaway from for me.

So now it created a huge dilemma for me as I had to study for my exams and yet I couldn't wait till after to play the game. My exams were still a few days away so I decided to try and finish the game before that during the nights while studying in the day time, I even got permission from my Mom to do so. But, what I didn't count on was how addictive the game would be and I just couldn't stop myself after every chapter to continue playing the next one to see the whole thing through.

The addiction to the game naturally got me into big trouble, as Mom used to wake up in the middle of the night to take her meds and she would catch me still playing the game way past midnight in my room. She would then promptly threaten to unplug the PC power cord from the main socket (yep she is inventive that way) if I didn't turn it off and go to bed. I then had to comply or risk not playing the game until after the exams. So this went on for four nights straight where I wouldn't stop playing the game until my mother scolded me to until the time when I finally finished it.

I still remember the last of the four nights being particularly insane for me as when I was at the end stage of the game it was very late in the night so my Mom woke up as always and was chastising me again to turn it off while I was pleading with her for a little more time telling her it was almost finished, all the while trying to figure out how to stop that damn helicopter from flying off for the endgame. So when I eventually finished the game and the ending graphic novel cutscenes played out on my PC monitor screen I had a satisfied grin on my face even though I knew the next two weeks were going to be hell for me because of the exams. Also incase anyone was wondering I did manage to pass the exams as well. :)