Video Games

The first video game I ever played was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis and the first console I ever owned was the Nintendo 64 which I still own to this day. The first 3D Mario game I played was Super Mario 64, and the first 2D Mario game I played was Super Mario World for the Game Boy Advanced; I played the Game Boy Advanced version before I played the Super Nintendo version. The first Pokemon game I ever played was Pokemon Blue, I played it on a Game boy console and then a Game Boy Color. My most played video games in history have got to be the Super Smash Bros. games, Star Fox 64, The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Super Mario World, and the classic Pokemon games; anything from the first three generations from Pokemon. Playing more favorite games over the years has helped improve my abilities as a gamer and the ideals that come from these creative IP's has had great influence on me as well as being greatly inspiring to me.

I value my time being a console gamer, as well as being a PC gamer and an emulation gamer; yes, I appreciate emulation because emulators helped me experience a lot of classic games I never got to as a kid. Also, being an emulation gamer is a great way for me to stick it to these corporations that are involved in the video game industry today as well as sticking it to online sellers who make it difficult to get classic consoles at a new condition as well as classic games at a new condition for a fair and reasonable price. In my opinion, nothing beats the console experience, but given the circumstances of the video game industry today, if I have to resort to emulation gaming, I will. While I am not going around openly endorsing pirating games today, I completely understand it; not only that, but also I encourage those that pirate games to keep doing what they are doing and never stop; don't let these big corporations intimidate. It's time for the voices of regular down to earth people be heard such as regular middle class gamers.

My favorite video game memories are playing the Nintendo 64 for many years, I also played the Sega Genesis for several years with my older brother Billy and that's also been one of my favorite video game memories. We enjoyed playing the arcade style games, the fun and immersive side scrolling games, and collecting Sega Genesis cartridges. Also, one of my favorite video game memories is playing Minecraft with my younger brother Arthur. Also, one of my favorite video game memories is when our father played video games with us when we had the PlayStation 2 for the first time around the time it released. He usually doesn't play video games at all because he is always busy working, but I remember when he played the PlayStation 2 with us when we played games like FIFA soccer and a pool game for the PlayStation 2. Also, one of my favorite memories is my mother always found it funny when the openings for the Sonic games we played for the Sega Genesis shouted "SEGA!" and I also remember during the Pokemon mania era when we were into Pokemon games, watching the anime, and collecting the cards, my parents sometimes mispronounced "Pokemon" as "Pokeman" and I thought that was pretty funny.