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Life’s a Game: how did you get into computer games?
Back in the 80’s, the year when computer games really started, I was too small, young, and stupid (also for most of the 80’s non existent) to take notice of what were known as computer games. I was happy enough running around randomly using my then vibrant imagination. I can’t remember when exactly, but the earliest memory of anything to do with Nintendo was at one of my older brother’s friend’s house. He had a NES, it was quite old by the time I saw it, really old, like 5 years. I can’t remember ever playing on it, probably once of twice, but I do remember two specific games. The first Super Mario game on the NES, of course, and a game where you used a light gun to shoot discs flying through the air, can’t remember what that was called. Anyway back then I rarely played any attention to it. It held nothing against a certain blue hedgehog that I seemed to like a lot.
But the most old, weird and dodgy was at my cousin’s house. He had this games console with which you used tapes to play games on! It was really strange. It had this racing game which was quite fun but it was so impossible long ago that I can’t remember all of it. I just remember this big chunky box, which looked really weird. If anybody remembers this could you explain what it actually is?
A little earlier, another one of my older brother’s friends had a Saga Mega Drive. He lived just down the road from my house and sometimes I stayed there after school when my mum had to pick up my brother from school. I seemed to have found the most amazing game ever. The combination of Mario style plat-forming and high speeds had me hooked to it. Whenever I was there I played on it. It also had a permanent effect on my life. This was ages ago before the time when I learned my “left and right.” There was this cheat on Sonic the Hedgehog that let you access all the levels. It went: Up, Down, Left, Right, A and Start together. Now I had no idea what to press when it came to the left and right bit and I really wanted to remember it, and being dyslexic I had to keep running over it in my head until I learnt it. From that day to a couple of years after, whenever I needed to know my left from my right I thought Up, Down, Left, Right. When I was about 9 years old I stopped doing that, this being the year when I stopped being stupid. One of my cousins also had a Mega Drive, which I hoped to inherit when he go bored of it (he was about 17 back then), but annoyingly they threw it away. Anyway I really liked Sonic and that’s probably what started me liking computer games.
The first computer thing I ever got, well it wasn’t really me, was a Game Boy. My older brother was saving up for one of them. He had been waiting for ages and had only saved up half of the money. So my mum paid the rest of it saying that it would half be mine. I was very happy and this all seemed fair considering back then I got no pocket money. Still we got it but couldn’t afford any games. So once we got bored of seeing just the Nintendo sign, which was pretty soon, we borrowed a game of one of my brother’s friends. He lent us Final Fantasy Legend, which was very good up to the point of the sword king who seemed to us impossible to defeat. Anyway we got a couple of more games (like “Balloon Kid” and “Golf”), but still I didn’t really like computer games. I did spend many a car journey getting several points under par on “Golf” and I did actually almost finish “Balloon Kid” (it had no save option so it was a real chore) so overall the Game Boy was a good investment for my mum on my behalf.
It was only until I got a SNES when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We got this amazing bundle where you get Starwing with the console. I got back from school and looked at the box, desperate to play on it. The only problem was that the cables connecting it to the TV were too darn complicated; hey I was only 6 years old. So I had to wait until my Dad go home, which seemed like an eternity. I remember watching children’s TV with it lying on the sofa next to me with the weird looking version of Fox Mc Cloud on the front of the box. When he did get home, about seven o’clock, it took him about half an hour to set it up, the cables eve confused him. My brother had the first go. The game looked amazing and it was 3D! Unfortunately by the time he had finished I had to go to bed or at least they made me go to bed. “Starwing” is still one of my favourite games of all time and I played it almost every day. That is until my brother swapped it for “Zombies” (which is inferior on many accounts) and never got it back, which was very annoying! I was happy playing on games such as the amazing “Donkey Kong Country” made by, now my favourite game developers, Rareware. Even with such brilliant games I never tended to invest much money in computer games, and when blasting giant babies on “Zombies” became tiring I tended to leave it off for days on end. Anyway the prospect of waiting a large proportion of the year in order to save up enough money for a new game was not very inviting, although me and my brother did buy a couple of 2nd hand games from a shop in Slough.
Somewhere along the line my family decided to invest in a PC. Even I was a bit sceptical at the make (DTK). Anyway I was really happy with it, mostly for the paint program on which I spent many hours drawing grainy pictures of Lego men. Yet when I tried to do anything else with it the computer was too reluctant. The most powerful game I could get it to work was Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy, which I got given for Christmas, and that stopped working after a few months! The problem was that every time we uninstalled a game it left a load of un-uninstall able junk on the hard drive. So by the end of it for me to run Age of Empires (great game) on it I had to get rid of most of the stuff on the hard drive. This computer amazingly stayed with us for, to put it lightly, several years (7 actually) until we got an amazing new computer and I could finally play on the Sims, which almost all of my friends already had. That computer is the computer I’m using to write this and it hasn’t failed me yet.
But then couple of years later something amazing and brilliant came out. The N64. I never new about it until, about a year after it had been released; my brother brought a little magazine home from school. It featured little previews of all the amazing games that it could play. It also went onto boast about the N64’s power, that it was “over 1000 time more powerful than the moon-landing computer. I was won over. There was only one problem. The price was way out of my reach so I had to team up with my two brothers. My older brother was fully behind the idea. It was just my little brother that needed convincing. I decided to take advantage of his love for penguins. “Look! This game has penguins in it! It’s also the best platform game of all time. Why don’t we get Mario 64?” Of course he needed a bit more convincing and eventually he agreed to team up with me and my other brother. But he dropped out at the last minute. I was really angry. My chance for gaming perfection had been chucked out of the window. Fortunately that year Father Christmas decided to be particularly generous and got us an N64 with Mario 64 and an unexpected extra controller, which I didn’t see much point in considering Mario 64 is a one played game.
So my little brother decided to get a Game Boy Colour so everything turned out all right. It was good because he got “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” which is probably one of the best handheld games of all time.
Unfortunately I didn’t get enough money to get Diddy Kong Racing, which was my initial plan. So my older brother and me made a deal. He’d give me £50 if he could have my half of the N64. I was desperate and agreed, without knowing I had probably made one of the worst decisions of my life at that point. My brother was as strict as an angry school teacher. He created all these rules about the N64, which seemed reasonable at the time. But after 2 whole years of this I started to crack. It just got really, really annoying! So in a drastic decision I decided to get my own N64, thus solving my problem. Unfortunately this was just a few months before he decided not to get any more N64 stuff. Meaning that I had just wasted £70! (Which was a huge amount of money for me) Anyway I went on to enjoy many other brilliant N64 games until last year when I got my final game and started the long wait saving up for a Gamecube.
How did you get into gaming?
Back in the 80’s, the year when computer games really started, I was too small, young, and stupid (also for most of the 80’s non existent) to take notice of what were known as computer games. I was happy enough running around randomly using my then vibrant imagination. I can’t remember when exactly, but the earliest memory of anything to do with Nintendo was at one of my older brother’s friend’s house. He had a NES, it was quite old by the time I saw it, really old, like 5 years. I can’t remember ever playing on it, probably once of twice, but I do remember two specific games. The first Super Mario game on the NES, of course, and a game where you used a light gun to shoot discs flying through the air, can’t remember what that was called. Anyway back then I rarely played any attention to it. It held nothing against a certain blue hedgehog that I seemed to like a lot.
But the most old, weird and dodgy was at my cousin’s house. He had this games console with which you used tapes to play games on! It was really strange. It had this racing game which was quite fun but it was so impossible long ago that I can’t remember all of it. I just remember this big chunky box, which looked really weird. If anybody remembers this could you explain what it actually is?
A little earlier, another one of my older brother’s friends had a Saga Mega Drive. He lived just down the road from my house and sometimes I stayed there after school when my mum had to pick up my brother from school. I seemed to have found the most amazing game ever. The combination of Mario style plat-forming and high speeds had me hooked to it. Whenever I was there I played on it. It also had a permanent effect on my life. This was ages ago before the time when I learned my “left and right.” There was this cheat on Sonic the Hedgehog that let you access all the levels. It went: Up, Down, Left, Right, A and Start together. Now I had no idea what to press when it came to the left and right bit and I really wanted to remember it, and being dyslexic I had to keep running over it in my head until I learnt it. From that day to a couple of years after, whenever I needed to know my left from my right I thought Up, Down, Left, Right. When I was about 9 years old I stopped doing that, this being the year when I stopped being stupid. One of my cousins also had a Mega Drive, which I hoped to inherit when he go bored of it (he was about 17 back then), but annoyingly they threw it away. Anyway I really liked Sonic and that’s probably what started me liking computer games.
The first computer thing I ever got, well it wasn’t really me, was a Game Boy. My older brother was saving up for one of them. He had been waiting for ages and had only saved up half of the money. So my mum paid the rest of it saying that it would half be mine. I was very happy and this all seemed fair considering back then I got no pocket money. Still we got it but couldn’t afford any games. So once we got bored of seeing just the Nintendo sign, which was pretty soon, we borrowed a game of one of my brother’s friends. He lent us Final Fantasy Legend, which was very good up to the point of the sword king who seemed to us impossible to defeat. Anyway we got a couple of more games (like “Balloon Kid” and “Golf”), but still I didn’t really like computer games. I did spend many a car journey getting several points under par on “Golf” and I did actually almost finish “Balloon Kid” (it had no save option so it was a real chore) so overall the Game Boy was a good investment for my mum on my behalf.
It was only until I got a SNES when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We got this amazing bundle where you get Starwing with the console. I got back from school and looked at the box, desperate to play on it. The only problem was that the cables connecting it to the TV were too darn complicated; hey I was only 6 years old. So I had to wait until my Dad go home, which seemed like an eternity. I remember watching children’s TV with it lying on the sofa next to me with the weird looking version of Fox Mc Cloud on the front of the box. When he did get home, about seven o’clock, it took him about half an hour to set it up, the cables eve confused him. My brother had the first go. The game looked amazing and it was 3D! Unfortunately by the time he had finished I had to go to bed or at least they made me go to bed. “Starwing” is still one of my favourite games of all time and I played it almost every day. That is until my brother swapped it for “Zombies” (which is inferior on many accounts) and never got it back, which was very annoying! I was happy playing on games such as the amazing “Donkey Kong Country” made by, now my favourite game developers, Rareware. Even with such brilliant games I never tended to invest much money in computer games, and when blasting giant babies on “Zombies” became tiring I tended to leave it off for days on end. Anyway the prospect of waiting a large proportion of the year in order to save up enough money for a new game was not very inviting, although me and my brother did buy a couple of 2nd hand games from a shop in Slough.
Somewhere along the line my family decided to invest in a PC. Even I was a bit sceptical at the make (DTK). Anyway I was really happy with it, mostly for the paint program on which I spent many hours drawing grainy pictures of Lego men. Yet when I tried to do anything else with it the computer was too reluctant. The most powerful game I could get it to work was Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy, which I got given for Christmas, and that stopped working after a few months! The problem was that every time we uninstalled a game it left a load of un-uninstall able junk on the hard drive. So by the end of it for me to run Age of Empires (great game) on it I had to get rid of most of the stuff on the hard drive. This computer amazingly stayed with us for, to put it lightly, several years (7 actually) until we got an amazing new computer and I could finally play on the Sims, which almost all of my friends already had. That computer is the computer I’m using to write this and it hasn’t failed me yet.
But then couple of years later something amazing and brilliant came out. The N64. I never new about it until, about a year after it had been released; my brother brought a little magazine home from school. It featured little previews of all the amazing games that it could play. It also went onto boast about the N64’s power, that it was “over 1000 time more powerful than the moon-landing computer. I was won over. There was only one problem. The price was way out of my reach so I had to team up with my two brothers. My older brother was fully behind the idea. It was just my little brother that needed convincing. I decided to take advantage of his love for penguins. “Look! This game has penguins in it! It’s also the best platform game of all time. Why don’t we get Mario 64?” Of course he needed a bit more convincing and eventually he agreed to team up with me and my other brother. But he dropped out at the last minute. I was really angry. My chance for gaming perfection had been chucked out of the window. Fortunately that year Father Christmas decided to be particularly generous and got us an N64 with Mario 64 and an unexpected extra controller, which I didn’t see much point in considering Mario 64 is a one played game.
So my little brother decided to get a Game Boy Colour so everything turned out all right. It was good because he got “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” which is probably one of the best handheld games of all time.
Unfortunately I didn’t get enough money to get Diddy Kong Racing, which was my initial plan. So my older brother and me made a deal. He’d give me £50 if he could have my half of the N64. I was desperate and agreed, without knowing I had probably made one of the worst decisions of my life at that point. My brother was as strict as an angry school teacher. He created all these rules about the N64, which seemed reasonable at the time. But after 2 whole years of this I started to crack. It just got really, really annoying! So in a drastic decision I decided to get my own N64, thus solving my problem. Unfortunately this was just a few months before he decided not to get any more N64 stuff. Meaning that I had just wasted £70! (Which was a huge amount of money for me) Anyway I went on to enjoy many other brilliant N64 games until last year when I got my final game and started the long wait saving up for a Gamecube.
How did you get into gaming?
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Life’s a Game: how did you get into computer games?
Back in the 80’s, the year when computer games really started, I was too small, young, and stupid (also for most of the 80’s non existent) to take notice of what were known as computer games. I was happy enough running around randomly using my then vibrant imagination. I can’t remember when exactly, but the earliest memory of anything to do with Nintendo was at one of my older brother’s friend’s house. He had a NES, it was quite old by the time I saw it, really old, like 5 years. I can’t remember ever playing on it, probably once of twice, but I do remember two specific games. The first Super Mario game on the NES, of course, and a game where you used a light gun to shoot discs flying through the air, can’t remember what that was called. Anyway back then I rarely played any attention to it. It held nothing against a certain blue hedgehog that I seemed to like a lot.
But the most old, weird and dodgy was at my cousin’s house. He had this games console with which you used tapes to play games on! It was really strange. It had this racing game which was quite fun but it was so impossible long ago that I can’t remember all of it. I just remember this big chunky box, which looked really weird. If anybody remembers this could you explain what it actually is?
A little earlier, another one of my older brother’s friends had a Saga Mega Drive. He lived just down the road from my house and sometimes I stayed there after school when my mum had to pick up my brother from school. I seemed to have found the most amazing game ever. The combination of Mario style plat-forming and high speeds had me hooked to it. Whenever I was there I played on it. It also had a permanent effect on my life. This was ages ago before the time when I learned my “left and right.” There was this cheat on Sonic the Hedgehog that let you access all the levels. It went: Up, Down, Left, Right, A and Start together. Now I had no idea what to press when it came to the left and right bit and I really wanted to remember it, and being dyslexic I had to keep running over it in my head until I learnt it. From that day to a couple of years after, whenever I needed to know my left from my right I thought Up, Down, Left, Right. When I was about 9 years old I stopped doing that, this being the year when I stopped being stupid. One of my cousins also had a Mega Drive, which I hoped to inherit when he go bored of it (he was about 17 back then), but annoyingly they threw it away. Anyway I really liked Sonic and that’s probably what started me liking computer games.
The first computer thing I ever got, well it wasn’t really me, was a Game Boy. My older brother was saving up for one of them. He had been waiting for ages and had only saved up half of the money. So my mum paid the rest of it saying that it would half be mine. I was very happy and this all seemed fair considering back then I got no pocket money. Still we got it but couldn’t afford any games. So once we got bored of seeing just the Nintendo sign, which was pretty soon, we borrowed a game of one of my brother’s friends. He lent us Final Fantasy Legend, which was very good up to the point of the sword king who seemed to us impossible to defeat. Anyway we got a couple of more games (like “Balloon Kid” and “Golf”), but still I didn’t really like computer games. I did spend many a car journey getting several points under par on “Golf” and I did actually almost finish “Balloon Kid” (it had no save option so it was a real chore) so overall the Game Boy was a good investment for my mum on my behalf.
It was only until I got a SNES when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We got this amazing bundle where you get Starwing with the console. I got back from school and looked at the box, desperate to play on it. The only problem was that the cables connecting it to the TV were too darn complicated; hey I was only 6 years old. So I had to wait until my Dad go home, which seemed like an eternity. I remember watching children’s TV with it lying on the sofa next to me with the weird looking version of Fox Mc Cloud on the front of the box. When he did get home, about seven o’clock, it took him about half an hour to set it up, the cables eve confused him. My brother had the first go. The game looked amazing and it was 3D! Unfortunately by the time he had finished I had to go to bed or at least they made me go to bed. “Starwing” is still one of my favourite games of all time and I played it almost every day. That is until my brother swapped it for “Zombies” (which is inferior on many accounts) and never got it back, which was very annoying! I was happy playing on games such as the amazing “Donkey Kong Country” made by, now my favourite game developers, Rareware. Even with such brilliant games I never tended to invest much money in computer games, and when blasting giant babies on “Zombies” became tiring I tended to leave it off for days on end. Anyway the prospect of waiting a large proportion of the year in order to save up enough money for a new game was not very inviting, although me and my brother did buy a couple of 2nd hand games from a shop in Slough.
Somewhere along the line my family decided to invest in a PC. Even I was a bit sceptical at the make (DTK). Anyway I was really happy with it, mostly for the paint program on which I spent many hours drawing grainy pictures of Lego men. Yet when I tried to do anything else with it the computer was too reluctant. The most powerful game I could get it to work was Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy, which I got given for Christmas, and that stopped working after a few months! The problem was that every time we uninstalled a game it left a load of un-uninstall able junk on the hard drive. So by the end of it for me to run Age of Empires (great game) on it I had to get rid of most of the stuff on the hard drive. This computer amazingly stayed with us for, to put it lightly, several years (7 actually) until we got an amazing new computer and I could finally play on the Sims, which almost all of my friends already had. That computer is the computer I’m using to write this and it hasn’t failed me yet.
But then couple of years later something amazing and brilliant came out. The N64. I never new about it until, about a year after it had been released; my brother brought a little magazine home from school. It featured little previews of all the amazing games that it could play. It also went onto boast about the N64’s power, that it was “over 1000 time more powerful than the moon-landing computer. I was won over. There was only one problem. The price was way out of my reach so I had to team up with my two brothers. My older brother was fully behind the idea. It was just my little brother that needed convincing. I decided to take advantage of his love for penguins. “Look! This game has penguins in it! It’s also the best platform game of all time. Why don’t we get Mario 64?” Of course he needed a bit more convincing and eventually he agreed to team up with me and my other brother. But he dropped out at the last minute. I was really angry. My chance for gaming perfection had been chucked out of the window. Fortunately that year Father Christmas decided to be particularly generous and got us an N64 with Mario 64 and an unexpected extra controller, which I didn’t see much point in considering Mario 64 is a one played game.
So my little brother decided to get a Game Boy Colour so everything turned out all right. It was good because he got “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” which is probably one of the best handheld games of all time.
Unfortunately I didn’t get enough money to get Diddy Kong Racing, which was my initial plan. So my older brother and me made a deal. He’d give me £50 if he could have my half of the N64. I was desperate and agreed, without knowing I had probably made one of the worst decisions of my life at that point. My brother was as strict as an angry school teacher. He created all these rules about the N64, which seemed reasonable at the time. But after 2 whole years of this I started to crack. It just got really, really annoying! So in a drastic decision I decided to get my own N64, thus solving my problem. Unfortunately this was just a few months before he decided not to get any more N64 stuff. Meaning that I had just wasted £70! (Which was a huge amount of money for me) Anyway I went on to enjoy many other brilliant N64 games until last year when I got my final game and started the long wait saving up for a Gamecube.
How did you get into gaming?
Back in the 80’s, the year when computer games really started, I was too small, young, and stupid (also for most of the 80’s non existent) to take notice of what were known as computer games. I was happy enough running around randomly using my then vibrant imagination. I can’t remember when exactly, but the earliest memory of anything to do with Nintendo was at one of my older brother’s friend’s house. He had a NES, it was quite old by the time I saw it, really old, like 5 years. I can’t remember ever playing on it, probably once of twice, but I do remember two specific games. The first Super Mario game on the NES, of course, and a game where you used a light gun to shoot discs flying through the air, can’t remember what that was called. Anyway back then I rarely played any attention to it. It held nothing against a certain blue hedgehog that I seemed to like a lot.
But the most old, weird and dodgy was at my cousin’s house. He had this games console with which you used tapes to play games on! It was really strange. It had this racing game which was quite fun but it was so impossible long ago that I can’t remember all of it. I just remember this big chunky box, which looked really weird. If anybody remembers this could you explain what it actually is?
A little earlier, another one of my older brother’s friends had a Saga Mega Drive. He lived just down the road from my house and sometimes I stayed there after school when my mum had to pick up my brother from school. I seemed to have found the most amazing game ever. The combination of Mario style plat-forming and high speeds had me hooked to it. Whenever I was there I played on it. It also had a permanent effect on my life. This was ages ago before the time when I learned my “left and right.” There was this cheat on Sonic the Hedgehog that let you access all the levels. It went: Up, Down, Left, Right, A and Start together. Now I had no idea what to press when it came to the left and right bit and I really wanted to remember it, and being dyslexic I had to keep running over it in my head until I learnt it. From that day to a couple of years after, whenever I needed to know my left from my right I thought Up, Down, Left, Right. When I was about 9 years old I stopped doing that, this being the year when I stopped being stupid. One of my cousins also had a Mega Drive, which I hoped to inherit when he go bored of it (he was about 17 back then), but annoyingly they threw it away. Anyway I really liked Sonic and that’s probably what started me liking computer games.
The first computer thing I ever got, well it wasn’t really me, was a Game Boy. My older brother was saving up for one of them. He had been waiting for ages and had only saved up half of the money. So my mum paid the rest of it saying that it would half be mine. I was very happy and this all seemed fair considering back then I got no pocket money. Still we got it but couldn’t afford any games. So once we got bored of seeing just the Nintendo sign, which was pretty soon, we borrowed a game of one of my brother’s friends. He lent us Final Fantasy Legend, which was very good up to the point of the sword king who seemed to us impossible to defeat. Anyway we got a couple of more games (like “Balloon Kid” and “Golf”), but still I didn’t really like computer games. I did spend many a car journey getting several points under par on “Golf” and I did actually almost finish “Balloon Kid” (it had no save option so it was a real chore) so overall the Game Boy was a good investment for my mum on my behalf.
It was only until I got a SNES when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We got this amazing bundle where you get Starwing with the console. I got back from school and looked at the box, desperate to play on it. The only problem was that the cables connecting it to the TV were too darn complicated; hey I was only 6 years old. So I had to wait until my Dad go home, which seemed like an eternity. I remember watching children’s TV with it lying on the sofa next to me with the weird looking version of Fox Mc Cloud on the front of the box. When he did get home, about seven o’clock, it took him about half an hour to set it up, the cables eve confused him. My brother had the first go. The game looked amazing and it was 3D! Unfortunately by the time he had finished I had to go to bed or at least they made me go to bed. “Starwing” is still one of my favourite games of all time and I played it almost every day. That is until my brother swapped it for “Zombies” (which is inferior on many accounts) and never got it back, which was very annoying! I was happy playing on games such as the amazing “Donkey Kong Country” made by, now my favourite game developers, Rareware. Even with such brilliant games I never tended to invest much money in computer games, and when blasting giant babies on “Zombies” became tiring I tended to leave it off for days on end. Anyway the prospect of waiting a large proportion of the year in order to save up enough money for a new game was not very inviting, although me and my brother did buy a couple of 2nd hand games from a shop in Slough.
Somewhere along the line my family decided to invest in a PC. Even I was a bit sceptical at the make (DTK). Anyway I was really happy with it, mostly for the paint program on which I spent many hours drawing grainy pictures of Lego men. Yet when I tried to do anything else with it the computer was too reluctant. The most powerful game I could get it to work was Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy, which I got given for Christmas, and that stopped working after a few months! The problem was that every time we uninstalled a game it left a load of un-uninstall able junk on the hard drive. So by the end of it for me to run Age of Empires (great game) on it I had to get rid of most of the stuff on the hard drive. This computer amazingly stayed with us for, to put it lightly, several years (7 actually) until we got an amazing new computer and I could finally play on the Sims, which almost all of my friends already had. That computer is the computer I’m using to write this and it hasn’t failed me yet.
But then couple of years later something amazing and brilliant came out. The N64. I never new about it until, about a year after it had been released; my brother brought a little magazine home from school. It featured little previews of all the amazing games that it could play. It also went onto boast about the N64’s power, that it was “over 1000 time more powerful than the moon-landing computer. I was won over. There was only one problem. The price was way out of my reach so I had to team up with my two brothers. My older brother was fully behind the idea. It was just my little brother that needed convincing. I decided to take advantage of his love for penguins. “Look! This game has penguins in it! It’s also the best platform game of all time. Why don’t we get Mario 64?” Of course he needed a bit more convincing and eventually he agreed to team up with me and my other brother. But he dropped out at the last minute. I was really angry. My chance for gaming perfection had been chucked out of the window. Fortunately that year Father Christmas decided to be particularly generous and got us an N64 with Mario 64 and an unexpected extra controller, which I didn’t see much point in considering Mario 64 is a one played game.
So my little brother decided to get a Game Boy Colour so everything turned out all right. It was good because he got “The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening” which is probably one of the best handheld games of all time.
Unfortunately I didn’t get enough money to get Diddy Kong Racing, which was my initial plan. So my older brother and me made a deal. He’d give me £50 if he could have my half of the N64. I was desperate and agreed, without knowing I had probably made one of the worst decisions of my life at that point. My brother was as strict as an angry school teacher. He created all these rules about the N64, which seemed reasonable at the time. But after 2 whole years of this I started to crack. It just got really, really annoying! So in a drastic decision I decided to get my own N64, thus solving my problem. Unfortunately this was just a few months before he decided not to get any more N64 stuff. Meaning that I had just wasted £70! (Which was a huge amount of money for me) Anyway I went on to enjoy many other brilliant N64 games until last year when I got my final game and started the long wait saving up for a Gamecube.
How did you get into gaming?