After being in the background on destructoid for a good while ive been thinking of a blog that would be good in the dtoid community.I had ideas for stuff but bleh my smash techniques and Monday Map shows were planned but failed.
Then after a good while i gave up and just kept reading the site.
Recently ive started playing OLD games... i dont mean space war and such.
Ive just started playing games i used to play when i was younger.im still getting a lot of enjoyment out of it with the nostalgia and whole fact im a lot better than i was when i was 6 or so(obviously).
Unlike games nowadays that can been done in 8-10 hours *cough haloez and bioshocks* games used to..take ages to complete....hell games hardly EVER got completed when i was little and if so it was a amazing acomplishment (will be featured in ep.2)
So with this ive come up with writing a blog about how i have changed as a gamer in the past 16 years or so

The Human Save file

(Btw the baby is NOT me)

Everyone starts off somewhere in there life when it comes to gaming.Some of the older people will of started off in arcades but most of us these days started with us getting our first console.May it be a Snes,Megadrive a ps1 or even a more modern console like a gamecube or xbox .Everyone starts somewhere and for me it was the Gameboy...


(Note not this big)

My old gameboy is old.Ever since i can remember ive had it.I must of recieved it around the age of 3 or 4 and since then ive been playing games.I got my gameboy with a few games actually:
Tetris
Golf
Tennis
Pinball Revenge of the Gator <- i love this game <3
Mickey Mouse Castle of illusion - Way too hard for a small child


At the time i probably didnt know what the hell i had been given.I switched it on and before i knew it I was playing a game where weird blocks would fall from the top i found i could move and spin them.as they stuck atop each other it got higher and higher until they touched the top resulting in a "BBAAAAAAHHH" noise. "Im well good at this" i thought in my youthfull mind and so i kept going and going until my mum said i wasnt very good. This confused the crap out of me and she gave me advice that i had to make lines and so with my first tip i was off.
Although i knew what i had to do i still got bah noises again and again...


Some other choice memories are of me messing about on the options and controls
Eg."OMG THERES A MAP on golf if u press B" and asking my mum why wont 2 player work on my games.
as for my other games i know:
I was alright at the golf.Especially when i would"SUPERSHOT" the ball over water.Getting bogeys...which was funny.
I remember being shite at Tennis... i still am.
The mickey mouse game was AMAZING the Anti-christ in dificulty...barring the passwords were four letter words and it wasnt long for my mind to figure ones out... My fave levels are ZOOM(with pipes)GIFT with lots of keys and LOVE which was near the end.

But my first EPIC game has to be revenge of the gator

Made by Hal laboratories which in the future would bring us smash was this GEM!
This game started it all of for me as i was good at it. =]
I had played pinball before and due so i knew what to do.
The game was amazing ,every bit..high scores...secret areas...a intro...crocodiles.
I used to watch the start screen all the way through before i started so i could watch the 3 small crocs dance to the funky music before marching on again.
The game was amazing for its time.The music was epic and catchy and i would hum it all day.The Bonus stages were creative like hatching crocs and the boards were all diferent as the higest one had you feeding a croc fish in the last chamber.....which gave LIVES.
Took me maybe a few years to finally feed a croc enough so it became too fat and gave me a 1-up with its demise . All the time in my youth i was aiming to get higher and higher scores..
One big problem was that after being switched off scores would go... so i wrote them down... i still have the drawing book with the numbers 2,042.350 wrote in big digits on the back page....which for my age was preety good being 4x the highest game score. Even the physics were amazing on this retro game =] the game continued to shine in my eyes but it wasnt long before the next console and biggie to come along which would feed my rolling desire ......SONIC THE HEDGEHOG


Next time....chemicals?......Final battles?....dolphins?

Episode II:Skills,Trials and celebrations.