I'm growing up as a gamer. I started off with the Nintendo Entertainment system (only had 2 games for it) - the dual duck hunt/Mario Bros game and Tetris. (I had the Tengen version of Tetris, and apparently I can't find the damned thing any more.) My parents didn't like the fact that I used the television a lot, so they ended up buying me a Nintendo game boy. I didn't have much official software on it, because soon after that, I ended up in Hong Kong with a ton of the 10 in 1 illegal game carts. I played a lot of Castlevania, Mortal Kombat and Flippull.
Then I got bored. The Castlevanias were so hard and difficult that I almost flipped my shit as a kid. The only games I could reliably beat were Mortal Kombat (I knew how to do the Goro code), Kirby's Dream Land, and one of the Turtle games.
Then came high school, and Pokemon. Pokemon was pretty fun, and we even had tournments at school in between classes. I usually had the latest link cables and stuff to use. This lasted freshman year, and then I was back playing by myself.
Interestingly, in this period of time, I've introduced a few people to the Pokemon phenomenon. I remember playing when I was supposed to be studying - and one of my mother's workers daughters saw me playing and asked me if I could play. She then renamed all of my Pokemon to naughty words, and screwed up their movesets - causing me to have to reset the cart. (This was the days before you could relearn old moves and rename Pokemon.)
I also had a Game Gear at this time. (I told you, I'm a whore for portability.) I mostly played an illegal 12 in 1 cart and Mortal Kombat 2 on it. It didn't last too long, as the batteries drained like whoa.
I then graduated to the SNES. I had 3 games for the Super Nintendo - Super Mario World, Kirby Super Star and UMK3.
I then moved on to studying but still playing games. I ended up with a PSP at one point, but didn't like the variety of games out for it. (Mostly sports, racing and simulation games.) I bought a DS for Pokemon Diamond/Pearl and ended up selling it. (I've since gone through 2 DSes.) I finally rebought a DS Lite for music and emulating older gameboy games.
Now I'm into retrogaming. I've rebought an SNES and most of the games I've missed because of my shitty attention span. In this age of the Internet most gamers don't have to get stuck on bad games and bad systems. I've gotten a lot more patience and a lot more hand-eye coordination skills and the fact that I can reliably beat most platformers (I still suck at Donkey Kong Country, but that...unfortunate...). I realize that I was the larval form of the action RPG snob, but I still have less patience for grinding and brutal level design.
Then I got bored. The Castlevanias were so hard and difficult that I almost flipped my shit as a kid. The only games I could reliably beat were Mortal Kombat (I knew how to do the Goro code), Kirby's Dream Land, and one of the Turtle games.
Then came high school, and Pokemon. Pokemon was pretty fun, and we even had tournments at school in between classes. I usually had the latest link cables and stuff to use. This lasted freshman year, and then I was back playing by myself.
Interestingly, in this period of time, I've introduced a few people to the Pokemon phenomenon. I remember playing when I was supposed to be studying - and one of my mother's workers daughters saw me playing and asked me if I could play. She then renamed all of my Pokemon to naughty words, and screwed up their movesets - causing me to have to reset the cart. (This was the days before you could relearn old moves and rename Pokemon.)
I also had a Game Gear at this time. (I told you, I'm a whore for portability.) I mostly played an illegal 12 in 1 cart and Mortal Kombat 2 on it. It didn't last too long, as the batteries drained like whoa.
I then graduated to the SNES. I had 3 games for the Super Nintendo - Super Mario World, Kirby Super Star and UMK3.
I then moved on to studying but still playing games. I ended up with a PSP at one point, but didn't like the variety of games out for it. (Mostly sports, racing and simulation games.) I bought a DS for Pokemon Diamond/Pearl and ended up selling it. (I've since gone through 2 DSes.) I finally rebought a DS Lite for music and emulating older gameboy games.
Now I'm into retrogaming. I've rebought an SNES and most of the games I've missed because of my shitty attention span. In this age of the Internet most gamers don't have to get stuck on bad games and bad systems. I've gotten a lot more patience and a lot more hand-eye coordination skills and the fact that I can reliably beat most platformers (I still suck at Donkey Kong Country, but that...unfortunate...). I realize that I was the larval form of the action RPG snob, but I still have less patience for grinding and brutal level design.
