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Ahh. I was first introduced to games with the NES and Megadrive (you Americans call it the Genesis right?) when I was about two. My first ever game being the first Sonic. I got absoloutly hooked to it! After this I'd started playing the other major titles and some crappy kiddy games with being little and all lol.
It wasn't long after that I got more game consoles and add ons. I got the Sega 32x and CD add on, but only played a few games on that (Sonic CD, Mortal Kombat, Earthworm Jim are the first that pop in my head). Along with a few other minor and unfamiliar consoles, these got boring quickly...
My dad has his own gameshop (yeah, it's still running). I was able to get pretty much every game whenever I wanted! When the Nintendo 64 and PS1 came out, I was addicted once again at the age of four'ish. Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Castlevania, Banjo Kazooie/Tooie, SSB64, Crash Bandicoots, FF's, Ape Escape and many more blew my mind! I remember me thinking "Oh my god! How can games and graphics get any better than this". I was right to think that, of course. It was mostly a great time for gamers. I also had the Sega Saturn, but unfortunately (yeah, I'm a big fan of Sega) it died...! It was the same situation with the Megadrive's add ons, though. A small amount of good games and the rest being rather bad. My favourites were Nights into Dreams, Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force, and Burning Rangers.
With my dad owning his own gameshop, I had access to pretty much every game. I occasionally played the handhelds, mostly the Gameboy, but just couldn't get into it. It wasn't too bad for journies, though.
I was about 9 or 10 when the Dreamcast was released. I really, really enjoyed this and was my favourite as of yet. It had some real classics that I still enjoy today. I was/am hooked to both Sonic Adventures, Shenmue, PSO, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, House of the Dead, Skies of Arcadia and so much more! The online play was amazing at the time too. I never thought I'd have seen the day lol. Yeah, sadly thee SegaNet servers were all shut down as we all know, but there's still some private servers and methods for accessing aaan internet browser. Heck, I still play PSO online and there's usually 500-800 other players always online!
I was pretty much a teenager now. I was still with the Dreamcast, but had been introduced to the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube. The Xbox didn't quite cut it out for me and I dislike Microsoft anyway. I sold this pretty fast. The Gamecube was ok. I only got it for the Nintendo exclusives of course, though. I still play this most as of today, with SSBM, SADX, LoZ:WW and TP mainly. I bring out a few others occasionally, but meh, that's pretty much it. I'd class the two Zelda games as occasionally pretty much too though lol. The PS2 was undoubtfully the best of the three, especially with the built in DVD player at the time lol. It had some of my favourite games and I'm still playing it reguarly. I've recently got back into Guilty Gear and I've gotta say, it's pulling me away from Smash slightly... :/. lol, though at the time, I never got competitive or serious with any games. I'm competitive now ofc though. I attend local smash tournaments frequently (around two a month) and plan to attend something like Apex or Genesis soon for SSBM. I'm competitive in a few Sonic games; the two adventures and the first few of em. I even hold some WR's!
I became agoraphobic/clausterophobic (not sure on the difference) and anorexic whilst a teenager. I left school for a while and did my work at home due to it. Don't wanna go into details on this really, but this is actually what got me competitive. I'd go on the internet more for random stuff about my games. I found this place and learned most of the advanced techniques from here for SSBM. I learnt about the Sonic Center and went there to learn all of the shortcuts, glitches, tech stuff to improve my times etc. I also started collecting games lol.
I'm a lot better now and unfortunately this is mostly the contrary for the state of gaming today. Nintendo pretty much gave up on us for the cash for the Wii so little kids can play with their mom. The rest of it is a mixture; multiplayer games that are fun with friends like Brawl (yep I said it) or Mario Kart, cheap and cheesy companies making quick games for cash such as the Carnival game, action/fighting games that beg to not use the WiiMote, an average to decent Mario platformer, or something like Wii Sports that's only fun and interesting for a few days. I'm probably gonna sell it today. A local store is offering £60 for them.
The X360 started off really well in sales but have been going down recently (or so I've heard). With CoD: MWF 2 being recently released and to be combined with a rushed in for christmas Halo game (they're all overrated anyway, IMO), sales should go up easy. I hate Microsoft so much, but I've still got three of these in my house! They're mostly there for multiplayer use when friends/family come round. I'll probably sell them before they break anyway (I've gone through 7). It's like I got them because nobody else wanted to play SSB/SSBM, Quake, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye etc or any off my favourite multiplayer games. Everyone wanted to play Halo and Call of Duty. I'll probably keep one for my little brother. The other two can go. Sorry, I'm going on here lol...
The PS3! It's slowly rising up, which I'm happy for. Sony really deserves it. I prefer this out of the main three right now for the exclusives and free online play. To be honest I'm mainly using it to still play PS1 games though lol.
Same as before, I'm not into the handhelds and don't expect to be. There's still a few gems, but nothing that interests me majorly...
Here we are. At a point where many gaming to be considered at one of it's worst points ever, whereas the other and smaller amount of people think it's better for the decent online play, better graphics etc. I play my olddschool games a lot more than I do the Wii/360/PS3 tho. One thing I miss is a challenge though. Games are so easy nowadays...Well, what do I currently own. Besides the three major consoles, I've a Dreamcast, Megadrive and the two add ons, Japanese Sega Saturn, Gamecube, DS, broken PSP that I'll fix then sell, PS2, modded Nintendo 64, Japanese Dreamcast, two PC's, NTSC N64, laptop I got for xmas lol, and a SNES.
I'm obviously not gonna list every game I own...actually, I will do that:.......nah only joking lol. I do have a collection for my Dreamcast and N64 though:
I own 222 PAL Dreamcast games and 7 Japanese ones. I'm not sure on the total amount in existence since I dunno if it's official to count demos or not. Some lists have and some haven't. I still need to find out.
I own 257 PAL N64 games, 21 Japanese games (got two more a few days ago), and three NTSC games.
I own about thirty PS1 games and 52 PS2 games. Oh, the PC games...I've none but SADX. I did download and play a lot of CSS one time though. For the DS and PSP, there's three for the DS and two for the PSP. I'll definately sell these for some cash. There's about 5-20 for every other console.
So...is anyone actually gonna read this lol? Not like anyone cares, but at the mmoment I'm doing a lot of video game related stuff. I'm attempting to beat three current WR's on SADX (one of which I own), am attempting to get speed runs on LoZ:OoT (but the few luck factors are stopping me), I'm starting a new FFXII save from scratch and plan to max my stats on it, retrieve another copy of Super Mario RPG as my previous was stolen, get Sonic and Sega's All Star Racing (which will probably suck), get Splatterhourse on PS3 (I loved the arcade version!), probably FINISH AND RELEASE my SSBM PAL statistics list; it's similar to M2K's, but based on PAL so it'll have different outcomes for some results...it's also bigger than his so far and it provides some tests some other useful stuff - just not sure wether the SSBM community would find it useful enough (especially with it being on PAL), and finally I plan to upload a LOT of video game stuff (speed runs, glitches, matches, statistics etc) very regularly on my new YouTube channel. I'll post another user blog thingy if my YouTube project gets going. I expect it to also since I'll be putting a lot of work into it......sorry I'm getting carried away here...
Thanks for reading. I dunno if anyone will though lol.
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Ahh. I was first introduced to games with the NES and Megadrive (you Americans call it the Genesis right?) when I was about two. My first ever game being the first Sonic. I got absoloutly hooked to it! After this I'd started playing the other major titles and some crappy kiddy games with being little and all lol.
It wasn't long after that I got more game consoles and add ons. I got the Sega 32x and CD add on, but only played a few games on that (Sonic CD, Mortal Kombat, Earthworm Jim are the first that pop in my head). Along with a few other minor and unfamiliar consoles, these got boring quickly...
My dad has his own gameshop (yeah, it's still running). I was able to get pretty much every game whenever I wanted! When the Nintendo 64 and PS1 came out, I was addicted once again at the age of four'ish. Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Castlevania, Banjo Kazooie/Tooie, SSB64, Crash Bandicoots, FF's, Ape Escape and many more blew my mind! I remember me thinking "Oh my god! How can games and graphics get any better than this". I was right to think that, of course. It was mostly a great time for gamers. I also had the Sega Saturn, but unfortunately (yeah, I'm a big fan of Sega) it died...! It was the same situation with the Megadrive's add ons, though. A small amount of good games and the rest being rather bad. My favourites were Nights into Dreams, Virtua Fighter 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force, and Burning Rangers.
With my dad owning his own gameshop, I had access to pretty much every game. I occasionally played the handhelds, mostly the Gameboy, but just couldn't get into it. It wasn't too bad for journies, though.
I was about 9 or 10 when the Dreamcast was released. I really, really enjoyed this and was my favourite as of yet. It had some real classics that I still enjoy today. I was/am hooked to both Sonic Adventures, Shenmue, PSO, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, House of the Dead, Skies of Arcadia and so much more! The online play was amazing at the time too. I never thought I'd have seen the day lol. Yeah, sadly thee SegaNet servers were all shut down as we all know, but there's still some private servers and methods for accessing aaan internet browser. Heck, I still play PSO online and there's usually 500-800 other players always online!
I was pretty much a teenager now. I was still with the Dreamcast, but had been introduced to the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube. The Xbox didn't quite cut it out for me and I dislike Microsoft anyway. I sold this pretty fast. The Gamecube was ok. I only got it for the Nintendo exclusives of course, though. I still play this most as of today, with SSBM, SADX, LoZ:WW and TP mainly. I bring out a few others occasionally, but meh, that's pretty much it. I'd class the two Zelda games as occasionally pretty much too though lol. The PS2 was undoubtfully the best of the three, especially with the built in DVD player at the time lol. It had some of my favourite games and I'm still playing it reguarly. I've recently got back into Guilty Gear and I've gotta say, it's pulling me away from Smash slightly... :/. lol, though at the time, I never got competitive or serious with any games. I'm competitive now ofc though. I attend local smash tournaments frequently (around two a month) and plan to attend something like Apex or Genesis soon for SSBM. I'm competitive in a few Sonic games; the two adventures and the first few of em. I even hold some WR's!
I became agoraphobic/clausterophobic (not sure on the difference) and anorexic whilst a teenager. I left school for a while and did my work at home due to it. Don't wanna go into details on this really, but this is actually what got me competitive. I'd go on the internet more for random stuff about my games. I found this place and learned most of the advanced techniques from here for SSBM. I learnt about the Sonic Center and went there to learn all of the shortcuts, glitches, tech stuff to improve my times etc. I also started collecting games lol.
I'm a lot better now and unfortunately this is mostly the contrary for the state of gaming today. Nintendo pretty much gave up on us for the cash for the Wii so little kids can play with their mom. The rest of it is a mixture; multiplayer games that are fun with friends like Brawl (yep I said it) or Mario Kart, cheap and cheesy companies making quick games for cash such as the Carnival game, action/fighting games that beg to not use the WiiMote, an average to decent Mario platformer, or something like Wii Sports that's only fun and interesting for a few days. I'm probably gonna sell it today. A local store is offering £60 for them.
The X360 started off really well in sales but have been going down recently (or so I've heard). With CoD: MWF 2 being recently released and to be combined with a rushed in for christmas Halo game (they're all overrated anyway, IMO), sales should go up easy. I hate Microsoft so much, but I've still got three of these in my house! They're mostly there for multiplayer use when friends/family come round. I'll probably sell them before they break anyway (I've gone through 7). It's like I got them because nobody else wanted to play SSB/SSBM, Quake, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye etc or any off my favourite multiplayer games. Everyone wanted to play Halo and Call of Duty. I'll probably keep one for my little brother. The other two can go. Sorry, I'm going on here lol...
The PS3! It's slowly rising up, which I'm happy for. Sony really deserves it. I prefer this out of the main three right now for the exclusives and free online play. To be honest I'm mainly using it to still play PS1 games though lol.
Same as before, I'm not into the handhelds and don't expect to be. There's still a few gems, but nothing that interests me majorly...
Here we are. At a point where many gaming to be considered at one of it's worst points ever, whereas the other and smaller amount of people think it's better for the decent online play, better graphics etc. I play my olddschool games a lot more than I do the Wii/360/PS3 tho. One thing I miss is a challenge though. Games are so easy nowadays...Well, what do I currently own. Besides the three major consoles, I've a Dreamcast, Megadrive and the two add ons, Japanese Sega Saturn, Gamecube, DS, broken PSP that I'll fix then sell, PS2, modded Nintendo 64, Japanese Dreamcast, two PC's, NTSC N64, laptop I got for xmas lol, and a SNES.
I'm obviously not gonna list every game I own...actually, I will do that:.......nah only joking lol. I do have a collection for my Dreamcast and N64 though:
I own 222 PAL Dreamcast games and 7 Japanese ones. I'm not sure on the total amount in existence since I dunno if it's official to count demos or not. Some lists have and some haven't. I still need to find out.
I own 257 PAL N64 games, 21 Japanese games (got two more a few days ago), and three NTSC games.
I own about thirty PS1 games and 52 PS2 games. Oh, the PC games...I've none but SADX. I did download and play a lot of CSS one time though. For the DS and PSP, there's three for the DS and two for the PSP. I'll definately sell these for some cash. There's about 5-20 for every other console.
So...is anyone actually gonna read this lol? Not like anyone cares, but at the mmoment I'm doing a lot of video game related stuff. I'm attempting to beat three current WR's on SADX (one of which I own), am attempting to get speed runs on LoZ:OoT (but the few luck factors are stopping me), I'm starting a new FFXII save from scratch and plan to max my stats on it, retrieve another copy of Super Mario RPG as my previous was stolen, get Sonic and Sega's All Star Racing (which will probably suck), get Splatterhourse on PS3 (I loved the arcade version!), probably FINISH AND RELEASE my SSBM PAL statistics list; it's similar to M2K's, but based on PAL so it'll have different outcomes for some results...it's also bigger than his so far and it provides some tests some other useful stuff - just not sure wether the SSBM community would find it useful enough (especially with it being on PAL), and finally I plan to upload a LOT of video game stuff (speed runs, glitches, matches, statistics etc) very regularly on my new YouTube channel. I'll post another user blog thingy if my YouTube project gets going. I expect it to also since I'll be putting a lot of work into it......sorry I'm getting carried away here...
Thanks for reading. I dunno if anyone will though lol.
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