When I was around 6 years old I remember watching those big guys playind arcade machines. I never had the chance to play them since my parents never helped me:P, however I could stand there for hours watching the big coloured "squares" moving around. Fortunately for me, one day my dad arrived with an atari 2600 and two games. Space attack and pacman. I remember perfectly how we connected the system to the tv set and plugged the space attack cartridge, WOWWW it was great to move the green aim so you could shoot the "space battleships", hehehehehe those graphics were so simple. I played the atari 2600 for hours, days, years (pacman, baseball, soccer, tennis, jungle hunt, frogger, pigs in space, space invaders, moon patrol --> GREAT GAME, etc). After some years a NES arrived (not forget the zapper) and Mario opened a new era for me, I could actually finish a game!!! I finished so many games, hahahaha I remember having a list of finished games (for sure more than a hundred), hahahaha I think I had no life, hahahaha.
Genesis arrived, I was shocked how great the games were (remember altered beast?) and during the SNES vs Genesis battle Street Fighter II camed by. I played that game so much time, I think my mother contribute a lot to Capcom's economy for all the tokens I spend in that game, hehehe. All my friends took me to their arcades so I could avenge them in Street Fighter II (Oh my god I had no life at all, hehehe).
When the following consoles arrived I decided to make a pause in my "videogame career", my bachelour in telecommunications engineering was a bit more demanding, then two years and a half in different jobs, a master in computer science, and then I came back baby;-). PS2 with the god of war series (prince of persia, guitar hero, madden, fifa, devil may cry,...), nintendo wii (Zelda, Rayman, Mario, Madden, Metroid) and in the future a ps3 (sorry microsoft no xbox I love linux).
My life with no videogames could not be complete, cheers for my first video game experience!!!
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When I was around 6 years old I remember watching those big guys playind arcade machines. I never had the chance to play them since my parents never helped me :P, however I could stand there for hours watching the big coloured "squares" moving around. Fortunately for me, one day my dad arrived with an atari 2600 and two games. Space attack and pacman. I remember perfectly how we connected the system to the tv set and plugged the space attack cartridge, WOWWW it was great to move the green aim so you could shoot the "space battleships", hehehehehe those graphics were so simple. I played the atari 2600 for hours, days, years (pacman, baseball, soccer, tennis, jungle hunt, frogger, pigs in space, space invaders, moon patrol --> GREAT GAME, etc). After some years a NES arrived (not forget the zapper) and Mario opened a new era for me, I could actually finish a game!!! I finished so many games, hahahaha I remember having a list of finished games (for sure more than a hundred), hahahaha I think I had no life, hahahaha.
;-). PS2 with the god of war series (prince of persia, guitar hero, madden, fifa, devil may cry, ...), nintendo wii (Zelda, Rayman, Mario, Madden, Metroid) and in the future a ps3 (sorry microsoft no xbox I love linux).
Genesis arrived, I was shocked how great the games were (remember altered beast?) and during the SNES vs Genesis battle Street Fighter II camed by. I played that game so much time, I think my mother contribute a lot to Capcom's economy for all the tokens I spend in that game, hehehe. All my friends took me to their arcades so I could avenge them in Street Fighter II (Oh my god I had no life at all, hehehe).
When the following consoles arrived I decided to make a pause in my "videogame career", my bachelour in telecommunications engineering was a bit more demanding, then two years and a half in different jobs, a master in computer science, and then I came back baby
My life with no videogames could not be complete, cheers for my first video game experience!!!