<p><img src="http://www.destructoid.com/images/cblog.gif" border="0" width="468" height="50" /></p><p><img src="http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/91204-the-start-of-the-affair-a-slow-descent-into-obsession/abortresi-468x.jpg" border="0" width="468" height="374" /></p><p>[<i>Editor's note: aborto thefetus tells us how </i>Resident Evil 2<i> and </i>Skullmonkeys<i> started the affair for him as part of <a href="http://www.destructoid.com/monthly-musings-the-start-of-the-affair-88614.phtml" target="_blank">June's Monthly Musings</a>. -- CTZ</i>] </p><p>It may or may not surprise you to know that there was a time that I didn't really care about videogames. When I was little, the only system I had was my dad's Colecovision he had in college. And I only played that every once in awhile, most of the time it was in a box in the basement collecting dust. Whenever it was out, I had a blast with <i>Pacman </i>and <i>Asteroids </i>and whatnot, but when it was put away I forgot about it in an instant. <br /> <br />In fact, if it wasn't for a specific event I probably would have never got into videogames. So what event was it that got me into this hobby? Well, my relatives on my Dad's side were notorious for unloading shit on us. Books, clothes, tapes and whatnot. When the PlayStation came out, my cousins unloaded their Sega Genesis on us. My brother and I were of course excited as hell by this. We had always watched them play games when we came to visit, and the chance to actually play these games whenever we wanted amazed us. Unfortunately, we never bought games ourselves so we were stuck with the ones they gave us. Which wouldn't have been bad if their library of games didn't consist of mostly terrible games. So while everybody was playing <i>Mario </i>and <i>Final Fantasy</i> I was stuck playing <i>Cliffhanger </i>and <i>Chakan</i>. And I actually enjoyed them, which comes to show you how much of a moron I was when I was a kid. <br /> <br />But this wasn't what made me love games. It was more along the lines of a gateway drug. It intrigued me enough to make me buy my next system, the PlayStation. And it was on the PlayStation where I came across what made me love games. </p>