What in the world happened to me?
If we rewind 10 years I could not be moved from my couch where I would play video games non stop. Regardless of callous fingers and thumbs, I would press forward slaying dragons, mashing buttons, and having fun. I didn’t have a girlfriend (girls never really liked me) so I didn’t have anywhere to go after work or school, I would just sit there numbing the thoughts and pressures of running my record label, being a musician and other cookie jars that I had my hands in.
After high school, I entered a new world of learning. College seemed to be a cesspool for video games, since my college was one of the few in the southern California area to offer a video game degree, so I was definitely in good company. But as time progressed I slowly put down the controller, and eventually sold my ps2, playstation, dreamcast, and all the peripherals that came along with those things and have not as of yet bought a new system.
Granted I do have a Nintendo Ds but the luster has grown stale and is no longer a possession that I use on a consistent basis, although I dare not sell it, lest I be without a few rounds of Castlevania or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
Did I grow up?
I promised myself at a young age that I would never become an old fogey, unaware of the culture of video games, comic books and other things that cemented me as a child. These things were all I had outside my faith and with few friends to call my own, and no love interests, this was my ticket to an escapism that the church didn’t frown on in any way shape or form.
But somewhere along the lines I sold out. Now I stand at the foot of a great world of gaming, and yet I am complacent. The Wii looks cool, but the PS3 has that familiar control scheme, a backwards compatibility that I love, but the price tag is so high. The Xbox 360 looks sleek and calls my name from time to time, but I never want to get xbox live which defeats the purpose to me.
But wait!
There’s more!
I don’t really go into retro-gaming either. I loved Nintendo so much growing up. I would wake up before the dawn of the new morning to play games before going to school, and on weekends I could sit there for roughly 18 hours playing video games, get 3 hours of sleep and crawl over to the grey box that owned me and get back to the action. I was never one to beat games, but I would play them constantly, over and over again.
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Castlevania is still around? Geeze, I think the last time I played that was on the original Nintendo! I think the original Nintendo and Nintendo 2 were the only gaming systems that I really liked and played on a regular basis.
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I was never cool enough to have one of them. But I remember always being at friends place that did
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I have never played much (I only had a Game Boy) but I watched my friends play for hours. They were a bit older than me and seemed to master dragon killing really well.
I just don’t play anymore… PC games sometimes.
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A degree in video games - kewl.
When my daughter was 8 or 9 I bought her a Game Gear (she’ll be 25 in April). She wanted a game called Ecco - about a dolphin or something - and played it eight hours straight till she won.
She does RPGs, and I have seen her go 14 hours non-stop!
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I feel you, I still think Ms Pac Man is the best game ever, you can shred at it and then put down the controler and do other things. Games these days require 90 hours of your life and leave you full of pizza and horrible poo. I suggest you don’t lose touch, cause there is no getting back on the escalator. Get a wii, have some friends over and play wii sports and get Wario, it is fun quick A.D.D. games that keep you saying, “WTF?” over and over and laughing with others. never play alone, and you’ll be fine.
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OMG! That’s so old school! MEMORIESSSS ! LOL
OH my gosh! My parents still have that Nintendo in their basement. I loved playing that as a kid!! What a blast from the past.
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I played Nintendo so much in elementary school that I have done a 180… I make an effort to read, to go to school, to be informed because I feel like I wasted so much of my life on video games. I felt stupid, which I think is different from your concern.
You don’t want to grow up?
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