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THE BEGGINING...

Young boy back in the 80's, my first video game experience was thanks to my cousin who had a NES with the Original Mario! I was lucky, altought video games began a long time before, I began my video game life a very special time, and probably it's best moment in time, the NES and MASTER SYSTEM era!


THE EARLY YEARS...

Finally during one christmas I got my first console ever, the NES, with Bases Loaded 2 and Mario Brothers. Played many hours of Bases Loaded with my cousin and my childhood friends back in my old house. A few months later my father got a Sega MASTER SYSTEM, it took us a while to find out that the Games where already inside the system, kind a funny event. Those inside games where SAFARI HUNT, HANG ON and the LABYRINTH one which for it to appear you had to press some buttons. It was a very challenging game. Games I remember or enjoyed the most from my EARLY YEARS where:

- Mario Series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes 1-2-3
- Double Dragon (NES ; SEGA MS)
- Marble Madness
...JUST TO NAME A FEW!

ON TOWARDS THE FUTURE...

Super NES and Sega GENESIS where the newest consoles out in the market, as well as the ever popular GAME BOY, and later on the GAME GEAR. There where other consoles out, but it was this four the ones with the most popularity. Most of my gaming went on the Super NES, as I was only able to play GENESIS at my cousin's house! When I got my Super NES I got Bulls vs Blazers, and Super Earth Defense Force, one of my favorite shooters of all time! Of course I did play a lot of Super Mario World, one of Mario's greatest game ever! On SEGA GENESIS The only game I played on a constant basis was STREETS of RAGE 2, a preety good beat'em up, aaaah, they just don't make them same! On the Game Boy, it was all about TETRIS, KIRBY'S PINBALL, and MEGA MAN!!!

Favorite Games, or most enjoyed:

- Mega Man X series
- Gunstar Heroes
- Mortal Kombat 1-2-3-ULTIMATE
- (Super) Stree Fighter 2 (TURBO) and all the other ones that came out
- Streets of Rage 2
- Final Fight 1-2-3
... Just to name a few!


AGE OF THE NEW LORD...

1995... SONY IS THE NEW KING OF VIDEO GAMES!! That unforgetable christmas my father really surprised me when he gave me that priceless box (actualy $365) with a PSone inside. My first games where TEKKEN 1, RIDGE RACER and AIR COMBAT. Sega SATURN, yeah right!, From the SATURN I only played a NASCAR game and blah, but I always want it to play KNIGHTS, the one with the pruple dude! Back to PSone, this was the Golden Age of my gaming life! my favorite games of all time are mostly PSone games. Those where the days, and I did enjoy some N64 unforgetabales!

Favorite games:

- Final Fantasy 7-8-9-T
- Twisted Metal 1
- Tekken 1-2
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
- Ape Escape
- Xenogears
- Mortal Kombat TRILOGY
- NBA JAM Extreme
- 3D Baseball
- Xtreme GAMES
- Ridge Racer (REVOLUTION) (TYPE 4)
- Ready 2 Rumble
- Resident Evil 1-2-3- Director's Cut
- Dino Crisis 1-2
- Mario 64
- Golden Eye
- Perfect Dark
- Turok
- Bad Fur Day


FROM NEW MILLENIUM TO THE PRESENT...

Not much of a gamer this days! There have been many good games this days, but they are not like they where before, gameplay quality has fallen dramaticly. I have owned both PS2 and XBOX, and both are not functioning anymore, and I'm not gonna spend more money on another system just so it breaks again later on!

I was really lucky when I managed to get a PS2, they where non existent here in Puerto Rico, each and everyone of them where sold out in all the stores near my city of Fajardo, but I struck gold, there was just ONE, yeah ONE! on the entire eastern half of the island, and it was at SEARS! After that I went home to play Gran Turismo 2 on the damn thing, and Final Fantasy IX cause there where no games. I had to wit three days for games to arrive at EB, when they did I bought Ridge Racer 5 and Tekken Tag Tournament, which ironicly where the same games I got back when I got the PSone, weird! A Year later I bought an XBOX and was blown away by HALO, danm that was a good game! A week later I bought DAVE MIRRA 2, Dead OR Alive 2, and Genma ONIMUSHA!

Favorite Games:

- Final Fantasy X
- Zone of the Enders
- Onimusha 1-2-3 (GENMA)
- NBA Live 2003
- MVP Baseball 2004
- Metal Gear Solid 2
- Dynasty Warrior 2-3-4-5 (Xtreme)
- Gran Turismo 3-4
- Need for Speed (ALL OF THEM)
- Resident Evil: CODE VERONICA

There are many others, this are just to name a few. Also, I did enjoy the Shenmue Game for DREAMCAST, and Sonic Adventures!

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PS3 tag: TipoDLuffy

"...quite possibly the greatest game ever made"

In the beginning, there was void, and from that void, Nintendo created the Nintendo Entertainment System, which got bundled with the fruits of the Tree of Life Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt on one cartridge. That was my first experience. I had a friend who introduced me to this Snoopy-based game of minigames, as well as Metroid (along with the Justin Bailey code, which she demonstrated by wearing a swimsuit and donning a NES Zapper gun on her cartridge. I later got Metroid myself, but I never understood the point of the game until I was about 18 years old. (All I would do was go around shooting stuff dead.) I later got Super Mario Bros. 3, too. But I never beat any of these games. (Wait, can you even beat Duck Hunt? or is there no limit to how high a round you can go?)

Back in the day, God Albertson's had a really cool department in their supermarkets: Valhalla the video game rental department. While they'd charge something about 70% (no pun intended this time) of what Blockbuster would charge for SNES rentals, which were for 3 days only, they'd charge $1 for a five-day rental of NES cartridges. It was through this that I discovered a ton of classics: Mega Man 4, Mega Man 5, Mega Man 6 (which didn't work), Paperboy 2, Felix the Cat (EXCELLENT game), Adventure Island 2, Adventure Island 3, Duck Tales, and probably some more that I can't remember. Strangely, I never got my hands on any of the NES Castlevania, MM1-3, FF1-3, or SMB2.

Then, one day, I got a sword from a stone Game Boy. With it came a gift from some relative, who gave me a Golden Fleece "105 games in one" cartridge. Okay, it didn't really contain 105 different games (many just started in a different place or were simply named differently), but it did introduce me to GB classics and unknowns like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mickey Mouse, Kid Niki, Motocross, Volley Fire, Tail 'Gator, Super Mario Land, Dr. Mario, Tetris, Klax, Pala Medes, Amida, Adventure Island (GB), Space Invaders, Tank something, Penguin Land, The Tasmania Story, Flipull, Hyper Loderunner, Pretty Fighter Sailor Moon, Super Awesome Final Fantasy VII preview, some column-/row-shifting game with cool music and anime-style pics, Solomon's Key, etc. etc. etc.. After many, many years of messing with this same, single cartridge of not-as-many-as-105 games, I one day ended up buying Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (after I bought MMX for SNES, actually), and so far, I've only been able to really beat Elec Man. (I haven't messed with a real version of that game for a while, though, so that might be alterable.)

So then I got a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, again bundled with a burning bush growing from a pillar of salt a Mario game, namely Super Mario World. I had earlier seen Contra 3: the Alien Wars, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, and Star Fox demonstrated on it, but I ended up getting none of those games except for SMW. I later got to see Donkey Kong Country, DKC2, DKC3, Dream TV (this game SUCKS), Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Secret of Mana, and a ton of other games, but actually own none of the, except Mega Man X and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Then, I sampled my first RPG, Super Mario RPG, and fell in love with the game--I waited long and hard to get the game. Finally (after Pokemon came out, in fact...it took that long), someone in my neighborhood was selling his used SNES and a bunch of games for $60, and my mom approved the purchase. (We later gave the extra SNES to the son of my music theory teacher, who later went on to develop a videogame pseudoaddiction not unlike the one I have.) I kept most of the games, including the Holy Grail Super Mario RPG (duh), Super Mario All-Stars, and Donkey Kong Country.

I had a short-lived experience with the Sega Genesis: On a trip to Hong Kong, I ended up playing what turned out to be a Sega Master System game, The New Zealand Story. I wasn't aware of the distinction between SMS and SGen back then, though, so I foolishly brought it back to the US, and convinced my parents to buy me a Sega Genesis (that was the only Sega system I'd heard of at that time, and for a long time after that). Cartridge didn't fit, of course, and thus I ended up playing Sonic 2 for about 2 days. The Genesis, along with the bundled Sonic 2, was then repackaged and returned to the store.

Then Jesus appeared Pokemon came out. Pokemon threw the dust off my Game Boy. I got Pokemon Blue about mid-season in the first TV season, so it was pretty cool that I could use the TV series to provide myself clues as to how to play the game (the "ghost beats psychic" thing never really worked, though, for reasons that I recently found explained in detail). I still insist that Pokemon should have come on at 7:30 AM instead of 7:00 AM, so I wouldn't have to get up so early, AND I insist that it should have stayed with UPN instead of being transferred to WB two weeks into the season. UPN would NOT have so crassly over-advertised Pokemon such that it would become the short-lived fad that it's become. And UPN had the show at 7:30 the first week.

Unfortunately, Pokemon came kinda late for me. I was 12 at the time, and I was about to enter high school as well. Back then (and even now to some extent) in high school, if you liked Pokemon, you were a childish dork. Nevertheless, I've stood by Pokemon (at least the older generation(s?) of the games and the show) up till today, and I intend to continue doing that.

I beat Pokemon Blue with a severely low-leveled team (levels 48-52 fearow, gyarados, pikachu, graveler, kadabra, venusaur). I later got Pokemon Yellow as a birthday present. Pokemon was like one of the best things in the world (there was always Voltron, mind you) back then, but I never forgot Super Mario RPG. Well, then, I got Super Mario RPG, and several other not-so-valuable items found in a sealed treasure dungeon SNES games.

Note that, up till now, I had barely any knowledge of the Mega Man series, as well as absolutely no clue what the Final Fantasy and Castlevania series were. I knew about Mario, and then about Pokemon. That was about it. Then I discovered the way of the ninja electricity fire nuclear energy SlimFast emulation.

One of our high school teachers had the habit of (1) being rather lenient on his students as long as they didn't act like complete idiots and bother other people, and (2) lecturing for aobut 15 minutes then leaving us to do work (supposedly). During the rest of class, which at my high school was 100 minutes long, I ended up doing work, chatting with friends, and other assorted stuff, until someone started playing games on the computer. Turns out he was playing some SNES Dragon Ball Z fighting game, then Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. I started checking out the compy more, later, and discovered a several games, among which were Super Mario All-Stars, some other games, and Final Fantasy II. I started a game of FFII (this being the US SNES game, a.k.a. FFIV, for those of you who aren't familiar with the strange FF numbering), but I lost interest in it by the time I was in the Misty Cave--the dialogue was kinda quite confusing, and the battle system was quite unfamiliar to me at the time. Then, someone started playing Chrono Trigger. THAT's how I came to know what Chrono Trigger was, and it was probably CT that truly started my overall appreciation for the RPG genre. (It was also CT that had the first 'girl' that I 'liked'--Lucca. Took me a while to realize that the reason I liked looking at her status portrait was because I found her attractive.)

As a sidenote, one of my friends in high school regularly played Final Fantasy Legend (I), so I got a small taste of it.

Later, it would be at that same computer that I discovered Mega Man 7, and also realized that I couldn't play Mega Man X3 because of some graphics chip or whatnot. There's a whole sidestory I can tell involving that, but (1) I've told it before on this site, and (2) it's LONG.

Soon, in my own home, I had my own Dr. Frankenstein machine "emu", complete with alchemical tools games. First, Chrono Trigger, of course. Then, Final Fantasy II. (Hence, the two games from which I derive my username.) Then, I was interested in RPGs and decided to check out Final Fantasy III (SNES, a.k.a. Final Fantasy VI).

Toward the end of my high school days, I found some kid playing on a Game Boy Advance. I somehow also made note of the music I heard. It was kinda weird, but something I hadn't heard before (not surprising, considering that I had played practically no GBA games). It also looked interesting--I remember peering over when the lead character was in some red-carpeted room with a huge pentagon/pentagram symbol floating in mid-air and beating like a heart.

I had, since getting my SNES, not gotten any new spellbooks game systems (not counting computer). I had rarely even played games on any new systems, except for demos in stores. I was well aware of the existence of the Playstation, Nintendo 64 (on which I played about two games, Super Mario 64 and Star Fox 64), Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast. I had very little reason to get anything other than an N64, since it had Star Fox 64, but I felt little reason to get an N64 itself since it cost quite a lot. (I still haven't gotten any new systems.)

I played up to the end of the WoB in FFIIIus before coming to college, and finished it my first semester here. Then I got into more hardkore programming emuing, and over the past two years, have accumulated emus for NES, GB/GBC/SGB/GBA, SNES, SGen, SMS, and even N64 (which doesn't work very well because I don't have a good equivalent to an analog joystick). I of course discovered this site, and started playing other RPGs, including other FFs. I also came to learn not only about organic chemistry and thermodynamics but also about the MM/MMX/MMZ, FF, Metroid, etc. universes.

I actually discovered the Castlevania series rather recently. I felt an impulse for trying something new one day and I grabbed Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, which turned out to be the game that kid was playing on his GBA (the music was the castle core music, though, so it took me a while to find it). It also introduced me to the most addictive song in videogame music history, "Vampire Killer".

Partial list of my ostriched emued games:

Kirby Superstar (8 games in one, although only 6 of them are fun, but has a kickass boss rush mode)
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (going from "aww" to "holy sh**" was an excellent feeling)
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World 3: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Mega Man II, III, IV, V (GB)
Mega Man 1-6 (NES)
Mega Man Soccer (rare SNES game, not that great, though)
Mega Man 7
Mega Man X1-3 (SNES)
Metroid Fusion
Metroid: Zero Mission
Super Metroid
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Felix the Cat (NES)
Duck Tales (NES)
The New Zealand Story (a.k.a. Kiwi Kraze)
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Pokemon RBY
Pokemon GSC
Pokemon TCG1
Final Fantasy I-III (NES)
Final Fantasy IV-VI (SNES)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

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it all started with teenage mutant ninja turtles...

i loved that show as a kid, ther was nothing like it

and when i went to a pizza parlor there was a video game section witch had mortal kombat, street fighter 2, and teenage mutant ninja turtles; turtles in time

i loved going against my brother as ryu vs. ken on strret fighter, and then facing off scorpion vs. sub-zero on MK, finally playing 2 player turtles in tmie

all very fun games

it wasn't long before a snes showed up at my house along with super mario world and tetris2, pretty soon a game called chrono trigger strolled into my house
a couple new games here and there F-zero for example

i had acquired a playstation with games like Jet Moto (the origonal), twisted metal, spyro the dragon
then i saw comercials for FFVII (never heward of the series before, but i though it looked great) i was 7 years old at the time

a year passes by, my friend gets VII i love that game, we would take turns (no guide involved, but it takes three 8 year olds can find the lunar harp)

pokemon red version, my brother gets blue, i pride myself as my charizard will whoop any blastoise it comes across, as well as many other water pokemon. i still will not reveal my secret till this day

at western redionals for wrestling a fellow teammate and i are comparing games, i stumble across something that will change my life forever, LoZ: Link's Awakening, since he couldnt figure it out he gives ot to me. i am hooked
i quickly get and play a link to the past

i get an N64 road rash, ocarina of time, Super Smash Brothers, mario kart64, mario64

several more years go by tekken3 gets played, then i am about 10 or 11
FFVIII comes out, it is the first actual ff i own, doesnt appeal to me as much as 7 did

next ff to come around (at christmas) FFIV with chrono trigger in FFchronicles, i highly enjoyed ff iv, and had already experienced chrono trigger

5 months later my birthday rolls around finally i have acquired FFVII as well as FFtactics

having previosly played VII, i went through on my own completely, enjoyed finally seeing the whole story
the FF tactics got played a highly addictive game
shorlty afterwards i get FF anthology and finally play FFVI and then a couple months later 5

now i am 13, i have an xbox with halo, and a few other games xbox still hasnt gotten many games under it's belt, i dont own a ps2 and therfore miss out on FFX except for a few times with friends
somebody gives me FFIX i dont' play it at this time

start playing diablo2

SPLINTER CELL COMES OUT

game boy andvance comes around, i enjoy the goldne sun series, and a lot of the remake games

a year goes by and i decide to play FFIX i love the game

now i am 14 games to follow are halo2, minish cap, soem new splinter cell
two years pass, now i am waiting for the nintendo revolution as well as xbox 360.

and that sums it up



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"Have you ever seen a baby do that before?"

It started with Mario 1 for me... then a short hiatas before I discovered Street Fighter. Shortly thereafter Final Fantasy IV and Shining Force 1 entered my life.....Then my descent into the occult occurred...

Shining Force 2, SF Sword of Haija, Shining in the Darkness

FF VI - X

When I started going to school (Kindergarten) I began playing Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System; playing an RPG while learning to read, write, and stuff. Sometime between mid-year 'til before first grade we had just bought a brand-new Sega Genesis and Phantasy Star II was in stores and I bugged my parents until they bought (and played) it. That's how my gaming life began and got me into the RPG genre of gaming.

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

I'm gonna try and avoid making a novel outta this, 'cause I will if tempted:

In the beginning, which occured sometime in 1977, there was the Atari 2600. God smiled as he wrestled with the joystick of this neato console and uttered, upon taking a restroom break, "Dang... This is good!"

But I wasn't alive then, so let's skip ahead a few years.

It was 1984 when I first played that awesome, awesome Atari. Since Nintendo wouldn't come out with their hit home gaming system til the following year - and only in Japan, at that - everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY knew and loved Atari 2600. Its name was synonymous with the phrase 'video games' itself and was always leagues above the competitors, which at the time were the inferior Intellivision, Colecovision, and the idling Odysseys.

My very first game was Adventure, and what a game it was. It's still widely hailed as the first console RPG in existance, although it contained nothing along the lines of turn-based battles or even level-ups. Truthfully, it's more Zeldaesque by today's standards, but back then it was the closest you could get to Dungeons & Dragons in a video game. I was fairly young then, so I have only the vaguest memory of my first experience, but I played that game more times over the years than I can hope to count, and still do quite a bit. I remember coming home from kindergarten every day and playing both that and Centipede against my older sister. We only had one joystick, so we had to pass it back and forth between games. My mom, who bought that Atari the first day it came out, would often take it to work with her at the police department and play Space Invaders against the guys there. She always maintained the high score, and the only game I could ever beat her at was the arcade version of Pac-Man.

We finally got an NES for Christmas in the late 80's. My sister and I would come home from school and immediately fight over who got to play first; if it was a two-player game, then we'd fight over who got to be the first player. During this period in time we'd also frequent a few arcades. One in particular was located within a skating rink which, sadly, closed down a month or so ago. Not that either of us had visited the place in years, but the nostalgia is worth holding on to. 'Sides spending all our quarters on the arcade versions of Centipede, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and the various pinball machines, we loved wasting our time on the original Rampage, a game I haven't played in its arcade incarnation ever since. It was also 'round this time that I got my first Game & Watch game, the dual-screen Donkey Kong.

My sister and I later got our collective hands on a Sega Genesis and individual GameBoys. Sonic the Hedgehog, at the time, was the best thing ever, and its sequels were even better. One of my favorite handheld games, Kirby's Dreamland, quickly pushed Donkey Kong outta the lead, followed by Super Mario Land. The latter, which introduced Daisy, always confused me in the sense that Luigi finally had himself a girl to keep his manliness, such as it is, intact. But it was Mario who rescued Daisy. Is there somethin' I'm missing?

It was late '92 when we received a Super Nintendo, along with Super Mario World and a slew of other games. This, of course, allowed me to gain an extensive collection of RPG's, and I still presently consider that era to have been the golden years of the genre. Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, Harvest Moon, and Super Mario RPG are a few great examples, and other games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat II, Super Metroid, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario Kart, etc. are all difficult to ignore!

I acquired both a Nintendo 64 and PlayStation in '96, a PlayStation 2 in 2001, and a GameCube in 2003. I've gone back and collected a few consoles and games over the years I initially passed on, but I think I'll end this before I continue to really ramble til the end of time...

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

When I was young, about seven, maybe eight, I'd often go 'round to my cousin Charlie's house, and sometimes we'd watch wrestling or play Batman and Robin, in the latter of which I was always Batman. More often than not, however, we would settle down in the converted attic and stick on Crash Bandicoot.

I enjoyed watching and giving advice, but never really had much desire to play at first. It was only when he got a hold of Tekken 2 that I decided to jump in and I found quite quickly that I rather enjoyed it. That Christmas, I asked my parents for a Playstation, and got the games Crash Bandicoot 3 and Tekken 3. It really ate up my time, and I frequently spent seven or eight hours a night dodging homework and playing Final Fantasy 7 or 8.

Then, in (I think) Xmas 2002, I got a PS2 along with a game called Airblade, which, whilst not fantastic, was enjoyable enough. Over the months, I accumulated more and more games, all the while picking up PS1 classics and, most notably, waiting nine weeks for FFIX. About 2003, I got a GameCube which it was decided me and my sister would co-own, which is now only really brought out when one of us has friends 'round, mainly for multiplayer MarioKart and SSBM. Finally, only within the last year have I got into PC gaming, after buying FFXI, giving up on it and buying WoW.

Not an especially extensive history, but I'm only young and got into gaming late.

If i were to tell my history of video games, that would be roughly 12 years (17 subtracting early years and combined total hours of me not playing video games) of history to cover, so Im going to make it simple:
It all began with Nintendo in 1990 (2 years old) and Dragon Warrior III, Super mario bros (all 3 and duck hunt), Zelda II, Tetris, and I think Final Fantasy I.
Later we moved away from japan (yes, I was born in Misawa, Japan. It was an American air base and therefore american soil, and both my parents are american so it counts as me being american unfortunatley. Still, it suprises people) to Murphys, CA. Not much change.
Moved to Douglas Flat, less than 5 miles from Murphys. Sold our Nintendo to afford a super nintendo. Got all the good Nintendo games, Including FFII (no imports by the by), FFIII, Zelda, and Mario collection. Also had gameboy with Tetris and Zelda, and some others that I can't remember, but I do remember how much I hated sharing it with my Mom and Sister, yet regretting that my dad had no interest in it at the same time.
get a new computer (i didn't play on our cpu much before then), get FFVII, CivIII, and I think Dungeon Keeper II.
FFVII didn't run very well on cpu, even afer the 50 hours I logged on it and beat it, so we got PSone and FFVII. Beat it again. Got all the other ff games, then Chocobo Racing, and many others
Graduate from Middle School and get PS2, Couldn't tell you how many games we got over time.
Friend of mine sells me his old Xbox cuz his mom one another in a contest (go figure, what are the odds). He sold it to me cheap. Got Halo.
.Hack// series, and I start getting into anime more.
Birthday money gets me Gameboy color, to replace our old gameboy that died (rain). still have it.
Got a Job sophmore year and used the money to buy me a GBA/SP. Made sweet love to its backlit screen. Only game I have for it is FFTA. More than 200 hours have been logged into it if you count times where I didn't save, battles I lost, etc.
Also ordered FFAI, II, and III off half.com to complete my FF collection
Also with money bought a gamecube. I have as many GC games as I do Xbox games (bout 6).
Saved up work money a year and bought myself my own cpu. Cost me 2000 dollars. price cumulated with games and hardware brings it up well over 2500 dollars total. Less than 6 months ago bought me a psp
Sims, EQ, and FFXI don't affect me much, but it was there.
EQ: (pre cpu purchase) started a guild with a friend, but being the lazy a55 he is he could not keep up with it and instead of handing it over to me he disbands it.
FFXI: more like affected my friends than me.
City of Heroes: I want to forget that part of my life.
PSP: bought it for the data it can hold, and lets not forget the emulators. Don't own a single game for it.
Now here I am talking about my life story on a forum I discovered recently. Posted more times here than I did on TAP anime before server probs.

Today I currently own over 50 video games, counting what really belongs to my family, and what I recieved thru bday, xmas (i may not be religious, but my family sure as hell is [forgive the pun] and im gonna milk it for all its worth), and what I earn. Above amount does not count emulators.

Whew, I think that covers it.

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

Let's see...I was born in 1989, so...

1992: Atari 2600! I loved Berserk, and Ms. Pac-Man, and had a broken Raiders of the Lost Ark cartridge, which made me pretty sad. Though we had a bunch, my favorite games were "Surround" and "Jungle Hunt"

1994: Lemmings! I loved this game, though at five years old the levels were mostly too hard.

1995: Lemmings 2. I have to say, I am a total fanboy of L2. Ten years later, there are few games that have come close to being as awesome, in my opinion. In fact, for four years I don't think I got or bought any video games. So there was lots of Lemmings 2. Unfortunately, I never beat the game, and the discs were lost some time during our remodeling in 2002, though I don't know that any of the computers around here would play it anyway...

1999: Nintendo 64-my brother got this for free at his after-prom. With GoldenEye, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, and Super Smash Bros. we beat the hell out of the controllers. And had a lot of fun with it too.

2000:
Majora's Mask (I think). In some ways I liked it a lot more than Ocarina but ultimately I've found replaying it a bit boring.

StarCraft: I was a sad, sad person (we didn't get home internet until 2002) playing the campaigns on my own. But this game still rocked. Still, for single player, I prefered WarCraft II, which I also bought that year.

2001:
Diablo II: I borrowed this from a friend for a while and almost went "Gollum" on him when it was time to give it back. I got Diablo 1 for 3 bucks at EB though, and I actually ended up liking it better.

2002: SimCity 2000/3000 and SimTower. I liked these games a lot. Especially 3K, which stopped working when we upgraded from Windows 98.

2003: WarCraft III. I played the heck out of this, then I stopped liking Real-Time Strategy games.

2004: Dabbled in some free online games. These are things I'd like to forget about. Late in the year my mom stopped caring about the virtual embargo she'd had on consoles for my entire life (I'm really not sure how the N64 fit into all that) and we got a GameCube and an NES. Really liked Metroid 1 and Metroid Prime, Zelda 1 and The Wind Waker, Final Fantasy 1, Tecmo Super Bowl and NBA basketball (1992 season-the dream team!), and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

2005: Got a SNES and a GBA. Played Final Fantasy "III" (which I arbitrarily chose over "II"), super versions of all my favorite Nintendo games, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Circle of the Moon, and some other less impressive stuff. Also emulated Final Fantasy 3j and 5, which were both pretty cool.

In the future, I plan to get a job, then the DS and PS1 will follow (as will FFII). My gaming tastes have wildly changed from being PC oriented to being console oriented as I found people to talk about my favorite games with. I've always found the social element of online games to be pretty blah, which is why I'm glad that I found a cool Final Fantasy forum. But that's all another long story...

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Intellivision, Colecovision, and the idling Odysseys.

Cant forget about the Sears 5000 .

Anywho, I got started with the NES when i was 5 (am 20 now). I had three games: Super Marios Bros., Castlevania, and Pirates!. From there I would have it for 2 more years before my dad got some uber fines and pawned it. I would be systemless until 1997 when we dug (literally) an old NES out of my friends shed when the roof collapsed under way to much snow. I got the system for free and 8 games for $15. In 1999, I got a GameBoy (the old, clunky, satin/smoke one) with FF Legend I, Tetris, Super Mario Land, Metriod 2,and Battletoads: In Ragnarocks World. 2001 I was introduced to Pokemon Blue. Then in 2001, i finally upgrade to a SNES . In 2003 I bought a PS1. After that I bought up FF titles like a back-alley crack fiend looking for a fix. 2005 I bought a GB Color off of a friend for $30. And now after being about 8 years behind everyone else (tech wised) I am concidering buying either a PS3 and/or Nintendo Revolution.

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A hero is somone who steps up when everyone else backs down.

Your greatest adversary hides inside your mirror.

the first game I ever played was sonic for the sega genisis.

I liked it so much that I boght sonic 2 which is still one of my fav games, then I got sonic3, and just about all the sonic games.

then I got a playstation and started playing crash banticoot and I liked it. so once again I bought all of those.

But I still liked sonic games, and one time I traded final fantasy 6 for sonic and knuckles and my mom was mad because she liked to play it. today I still have all the sonic games for gamecube.

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In the begining their was nothing... then god said "let their be light".... and it was good.