An odd name, especially for a male nontheless, but behind its cuteseyness I guess it's worn on me.

But anyways, as a newer member of the DTOID community I might as well go into a bit of detail of my gaming history.

Having been born in 1984 I was one of those kids who started playing video games at a really early age. It really hasn't affected my gaming skill all that much, (I suck) but when I was born my parents had both an Intellivision and an Atari 2600, as I came into the world not long after the video game crash of the early 80s. The 2600 stuck with me for a really long time; By no means was I good at it but I enjoyed playing it more than I did the NES, although this was most likely because I didn't have to ask to play it.

I've always gone with handhelds over consoles. I got a GB for Christmas back in 1993 and it was the only thing I played. The old NES eventually broke down and my dad had bought a Genesis that didn't get played all that much. Back then I was really into sports games and flight sims. Probably my worst gaming moment came in the mid 1990s when my sister erased my 100%+ save file in Donkey Kong Land 3. Man, I was one pissed off kid, and when I got pissed off back then, I got PISSED.

I was out of the console loop for a long time. I got a GB Color for Christmas in 1998, not too long after its launch, and was probably one of the more worn handhelds that I owned. Pokémon, as much as I don't always like to admit, was my first RPG and really got me into the genre. (The Lufia and Tales series top my list of favorite RPG series out there.) When I bought my Game Boy Advance in 2003 it was like a whole goldmine of new RPGs for me to play. It was around that same time that my father had bought the family a PS2 for christmas. I didn't really care much though because, admittedly, I was a pretty bad Nintendo fanboy back in the days. (Not so much anymore.) It was probably the first console the family had in a few years, and I was able to obtain a Gamecube around Christmas 2004. I had been away from consoles for so long it honestly was weird for me to be playing a system where the controller wasn't part of the actual system itself. I eventually got back into the console groove, though, and to be honestly I loved my gamecube. I know it was the bottom of its generation and it had a lot of shortcomings but it was good enough to keep me going.

The DS came around for me in 2006, and today it's probably the only thing I've owned that has a touch screen and a stylus that's lasted over a year for me. (Despite me using my DS way way more than I ever used a palmOS.) Mariokart got me instantly hooked on the system, and the Ace Attorney series probably became my favorite series available on the system. Add the recently released gem known as The World Ends With You and my DS collection is a tad small, but well-rounded.

My latest addition to my gaming family came only about a week ago, when I finally decided to give in and splurge on a Wii. All I know is that in a couple of days I will most likely have my parents on my case about it, but that's to be expected. I'm definitely not one of the richest people out there.

Hopefully this won't be my only post here. Besides all the other blogs I've created at other sites I think I'll have to choose between a couple that would be worth keeping and go with them, but I'm hoping to get into the string of things. I've blogged before and like typing up what's on my mind about certain things, so I'll try to get some activity in on this one.