Monday, 5 February 2007

My year as a gamer
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: A smathering or a blathering
Topic: Blather

Like most kids in my generation, I played video games when I was a kid. Mostly I played Commodore 64 games (Wow dating myself there), Atari and Nintendo. I gave my Nintendo games away when I was a teenager.  I kinda wish I kept them, I never quite beat them. (In the case of my Friday the 13th game, it kept beating me.)

I got a Nintendo Gameboy in the early nineties as a Christmas gift. I beat the Mario game I got with it, but did poorly in the other games I had (a Spiderman game, a Kirby Pinball game I actually did ok in, and a Ren and Stimpy game I never made sense of).

Aside from my handheld game and arcade games, I wasn't playing as much as I was when I had more free time on my hands.  Then came winter 2005.

My father gave me four video games for Christmas unaware I couldnt use in my gameboy (which is just as well, its now as dead as...well something dead). They were Nintendo Gamecube games. What he gave me was a Metroid Game, Enter the Matrix and games for Wrestlemania 18 and 19.

I had a couple of choices, ditch the games, have them become dust bunny farms or actually play them.

As you can probably guess, I chose to play them. Course I had to get a system first. After a month or so, I got one I put on layaway. I finally got to play the games.

So did I like them? Getting me those games has been the best mistake he ever made.

I like the wrestling games more than the others. The best part of the wrestling games is that you can create your own characters. Once I figure out how to get a picture of them, I might someday show them to you. I have made "wrestlers" based on tv pundits, newspeople and common taters like Bill O'Reilly. (ironically as much as I don't like him, the character I "christened" after him is the one I have changed the least).

I now have several other games, among which I have five or six wrestling games (Day of Reckoning, Legends of Wrestling I and 2 (by the way these two get played the LEAST, horrible controls) and a Nicktoons game, which I came close to beating, at least before the stupid thing froze when I tried to load a saved game. No problem, just started over again.

Can I call myelf a gamer? Probably not. I do love to play however. It was a long time before I got back to it, but now I'm glad I have.

Thanks dad

(Link recommendation: Check out the Angry Video (Nintendo) Nerd on youtube, whos played some of the games I have. And likes them just as much. A Caveat though, he swears, and swears a lot but creatively.)

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