LATE 80S EARLY 90 I'm going to warn you that my years are all messed up. Don't ask me the year because I forgot. Don't ask me the age because I forgot. What you can ask me is the game. That is what I remembered. My gaming timeline is more confusing than the timeline of
LOST. Each time I remember when I played a game I tend to forget what year it was. It dosesn't help that moving around was the norm. Despite this, I'll try my best. I remember being slightly disappointed because I thought I beat the game, when in fact there are other worlds to go to. This game I'm talking about is
Super Mario Brothers 3. At that time the game had been fairly new and it something I constantly played. Along other games I played was
Super Mario Brothers and
Duck Hunt. What little I do remember I was getting into
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I even had that for the NES. If that helped, I would not know. I had major surgery and when I came to, I found that I had a NES. Some of the games I remember enjoying and playing nonstop was
Darkwing Duck and
Duck Tales.
Darkwing Duck is awesome, and don't you forget it. MAYBE AROUND 1994 - 1996 But what games do I do remember. I remember quite a bit actually. I remember hating
Ecco The Dolphin for the Sega Genesis, I remember playing the hell out of
Bartman meets Radioactive Man (which is something I don't recommend). There's also
Jurassic Park for the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Genesis. Yeah, I had three versions of
Jurassic Park game on three different systems. Why? Because I, even to this day, love
Jurassic Park. I knew someone that had a bunch of NES games and I played a lot of them. Again, not remembering what I played. Then around 1994 I got a Super Nintendo. We didn't have a lot of games, but the games we did get was a lot of fun. We rented more than we bought. Some of the games we rented was
Alien 3,
Judge Dredd, and I borrowed
Star Fox, which I didn't get to play a lot of. We had a SNES for awhile. One of the game games we did have, and played a lot of was
Mortal Kombat and
Mortal Kombat II.
Mortal Kombat was one of the first games I've ever beaten and it was awesome. I didn't know there was a difference between the SNES version and the Genesis version, but I didn't care. All I cared about was playing a game and having fun with it.
Mortal Kombat II was something my family played a lot of. My mom, my dad, and my three sisters all played the game. I would win because of the amount I played of the game.
I think I was around 9 when I first played this. We left the SNES behind and got a Sega Genesis. Like the SNES we didn't have a lot of games and the games we did have was a lot of fun. There was this short period where the family would play darts and who ever wins gets to have anything they wanted. While I didn't win, one of my sister's did. What she picked was something that all 4 of us had to enjoy, but it would be hers. She picked
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. To say that I played the hell out of that would be an understatement. I didn't have a lot of games, but with that game I didn't need to.
UMK3 was all I need. One of the cool things about it is if you beat the tournament mode, you get to choose a prize. When I found the Supreme Demonstration logo it suddenly became an event where all my sisters and I would gather around the TV and watch all the fatalities, babalities, friendships and animalities there are. I would not any other logo. Just that one.
1997 When we moved it was lost during the moving process. Which was something of a sad tradition. If we actually stayed in one place instead of constantly moving, I'm sure that my room would be felled with old game system and games. Not James Rolfe big, but a decent collection of games I would be proud of. Then there was a small period where I didn't have a gaming system. I was young and still had a bunch of toys that I enjoyed.
Jurassic Park: The Lost World was coming out and I got some cool toys from that. I was around 11 at the time. 1997 would become my favorite year ever. That year got a Playstation.
Resident Evil had just came out and I watched my dad play it. I tried playing it myself, but would always get killed. There was
Reloaded, Twisted Metal, Twisted Metal 2, Resident Evil 2, and a few others. I even played a game that was had something to do with
Monty Python. I would have to say my time with the Playstation 1 had my clearest memories of gaming.
Tomb Raider was something everyone played, my Dad mostly played
Myst. My mom played
Tomb Raider, my sisters play some of
Resident Evil. I just played anything I got my hands on. I even played
Final Fantasy VII when that came out, and no I didn't like it. When
Resident Evil 2 came out we made an event out of it and we would watch my dad play that. I tried to play that too, but I got killed a lot.
The Roller Coaster scenes was fun into itself 1998 -1999 We moved. It wasn't all bad this time. When we moved my grandparents had a Super Nintendo. This is where I played a lot of
Tetris Attack. Tetris Attack was like an addiction to me. It was so good. Then we moved, again. Seeing that it wasn't my system we had to leave it behind. This time in, what I believe is 1999, for Christmas, I got a Sega Saturn and one of the games they had in box was
Tomb Raider. That version was OK, but if you didn't beat a level in under an hour, the loading screen would freeze. It was very strange. This was also the time where I played
Virtua Fighter and
NBA Jam for the first time. I would spend all night playing
NBA Jam and it was awesome. It was a pretty good system, if it wasn't for the PS1 I could see the Sega Saturn being bigger. This was also the first time where I got to play a little bit of the Nintendo 64. The one game I played a lot of was
GoldenEye and
Perfect Zero. Then again, we moved. It was almost a year before we got another Playstation 1. It was around 1999 and the Dreamcast was coming out. The two big games I played was
Silent Hill and
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. We didn't have a lot of games, again, but it didn't matter to me. What we had was enough. I watched my dad play
Pitfall 3D, unbeknownst to me at the time that the main Character was voiced by Bruce Campbell.
Shooting and making nothing but net from full court was memorable. 1999 - 2000 Then, maybe, around 2000 I got another Sega Genesis. The games I played this time was
Mortal Kombat 3, Vectorman, and
Zero Tolerance.
Columns was another game I played a lot of. I didn't have the Genesis for long because we moved. It was around this time where Blockbuster was allowing people to rent systems and we rented one for a while. I played
Resident Evil 3,
Ready 2 Rumble boxing, NFL Blitz, and
Star Wars Episode 1. It was around this time where I tried to get into PC gaming. Sadly, the only game that can be played was Carnivores, a hunting game where you hunt dinosaurs. I also had a Gameboy in two separate occasions. In one time I played
Pokemon: Blue and the other
Resident Evil: Gaiden. I'll let you pick which one I had the best time more. This was also around the time where I spent my biggest gap of not playing video games. Thankfully, this is where the years becomes clearer than ever. It was sort of a reset for me.
Don't Ever Play This. EVER 2002 - NOW In 2002 I got a Super Nintendo again with
Mortal Kombat II, Link To The Past, Donkey Kong Country, and
Super Metroid. I played a lot of
Link To The Past, but never finished it, the same goes for
Donkey Kong Country. I didn't play
Super Metroid because I didn't want to delete the saves the game had. I sold the Super Nintendo shortly after, yes you can facepalm here, but not long after I got a Nintendo 64. I played a lot of
Mario Tennis, Quake 64, and
Turok 64. Then I got another Playstation. This is where I finally got to play
Metal Gear Solid. I played a lot of Playstation games at that time, I couldn't tell you if it was good or not though. Maybe a few months after getting a Playstation I finally got a Playstation 2. I had that for a long time playing all the great games like
Ratchet and Clank, Psychonauts, Metal Gear Solid 2, MGS 3, Resident Evil 4, and so much more. There's a reason why it's considered one of the greatest Consoles of all time. Unlike the past, where I rarely got a game. I got few every few months, sometimes weeks. I had that until I got a Xbox 360. I played pretty much all the big games from that and now I have a PS3, which I am enjoying. My gaming history is confusing...
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