I was 5 or 6 and my parents bought a Nintendo Entertainment System with I was hooked! I loved those games! Why oh why did I foolishly sell all my NES stuff at a garage sale!? Mom, you said I could keep the proceeds, but you lied to me! For a short while we owned a SNES, then Mom got rid of it. We also had a SEGA Genesis, then Mom got rid of that too. She doesn’t like video games you see. Then why does she keep buying consoles? All the while, my brother and I went to as many arcades as we could find. I did manage to hang on to the GameBoy and GameBoy Color handhelds. I have lost most of the games.

When I was a young teen Mom then bought us kids an N64 with Mystical Ninja, and I made sure to hang on to it. I later purchased a game with my own money for the first time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. What a game! Then I bought Majora’s Mask, Golden Eye, Quest 64, and more and more games. The GameCube was the first system I bought with my own money. I no longer needed to depend on my parents to buy me games.

When I was 19 I took a two year hiatus from video games to learn Tagalog and preach the good Word in the Philippines. Upon my return I picked up where I left off and played some old favorites. I married a beautiful woman that also like video games! We got Nintendo DS consoles, a white one and a pink one, and bought loads of games. Nintendo released the Wii, and I hated it. Then the Wii U. I looked like the end for Nintendo. Then the Switch was released! My wife had to have it. I like the indie and retro games.

A few years ago I found a silver PS2 Slim and I play any PS1 or PS2 games I can find on the cheap at the Deseret Industries thrift store (the same place Napoleon Dynamite bought that sweet suit).

So that’s my gaming story. I’m an arcade fan, and I am totally biased towards anything Nintendo, except I was not a fan of the Wii or WiiU, and the Virtual Boy really hurt my eyes. Do Tiger Electric games count as video games?

I also collect video game movies and TV shows on DVD and watch them on my PS2 Slim in my dank nerd basement. I have two kids and we love to play games together.