I played my first Nintendo game when I was 8 years old I think. Super Mario brothers in a ‘Good Boy’ console. Then we had the SNES. Then the Ninetendo 64. Then the Wii.
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We had our first gaming console when I was around 8 years old. It was called the Goodboy Family Computer. Games during those times were Street Fighter, the game where I first learned the foundation move of all fighting games, the down+up+button combination, haha! Rockman 3, my first ever encounter with the blue little robot that glows when you hold the fire button and changes color every time you beat a boss. Of course, Super Mario who looked like a red and blue combination of boxes who grows bigger when you eat the mushroom and becomes invincible when you get the star. Then after some years, my parents bought a Super Nintendo (SNES), it was much like our first gaming console, games were chips covered with rectangular plastic which you need to forcefully insert in the opening found at the console’s upper part. This gaming console introduced me to that big macho ape called Donkey Kong (I forgot the name of his assistant, the one with the hat).
(Rockman 3. Picture from here)
(SNES. Picture from here)
(Donkey Kong. Picture from here)
After some time, my uncle working abroad went home and brought us a Nintendo 64. Because of this console, I was able to play with Mario in a 3D environment and found out that Koopa is different from Bowser, I really thought they were one and the same haha.
(Nintendo 64. Picture from here)
(Mario 64. Picture from here)
Then, during my teenage years, my parents upgraded our Nintendo 64 to a Playstation 1. It was the best of its kind during this time, well at least in our house hehe. We had Megaman X4, Tomb Raider, Marvel Super Heroes, and of course, the only RPG game I was able to finish and the reason why I had to jump out of joy (serious) because I got a blue sword with a lion engraved in its handle, Final Fantasy VIII. Squall, Zell, Rinoa… Are these names familiar? For me, they were almost good as real people hehe.
(Playstation 1. Picture from here)
(The blue sword I was talking about. Picture from here)
Then we upgraded again, this time with a Playstation 2. During this time, gaming was not my thing anymore, so I let my brothers play most of the time. Of course, having 3 other brothers who love games as well, we have mini competitions with Marvel Vs. Capcom. There was a time that I took it seriously, so I play in ‘practice mode’ when my brothers were asleep.
(PlayStation 2. Picture from here)
(Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. Picture from here)
Then just a couple of years ago, my parents upgraded our Playstation 2 with a Nintendo Wii. Talk about interactivity. It’s the best gaming console I laid my hands on. Because it was so good, I went back to playing games again. I was having my training in Nestle during the time they bought the Wii so I had no assignments and exams for 3 months! Because of that, I spent every night playing boxing… I ended up enhancing my muscles haha.
(Nintendo Wii. Picture from here)
Then I stopped playing again until a couple of days ago when my brothers brought out the dusty Playstation 2 and challenged me for a battle in Marvel Vs. Capcom. Wow! I still know the moves and I can still do some combos.
So much happened since that day where I first played with our Goodboy till the day I finished Zelda in Nintendo Wii. But after everything… I’m back playing with my brothers again, with the same enthusiasm and competitiveness as I had before… as if nothing really happened.
