Like many others, the NES was my first video game system. Well, it wasn’t really mine it was my dads, but that’s not the point. It was a gray box of awesome. So simple in design and yet it was cool looking. Also like many others, Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt was the first game I played. It was simple and it was fun. You could run and jump, that was it, and it was fantastic! It was also the first video game I beat. I was so excited when I beat it that it was all I could talk about for the next couple of weeks. I had friends coming over to watch me play and beat the game because they didn’t believe me. There was only 1 game that I put more time into on the NES, and that game was Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy blew my tiny mind. I could name people, choose the type of fighters I wanted to use and save an entire world! I wasn’t that good at it though. Luckily my dad played too. I used to watch him play for awhile and when he was done I would just copy what he did. I had other games too, I just can’t remember most of them. I do remember Batman, Legend of Zelda, Zelda 2, Castlequest and Shadowgate. As awesome as the system was, it was also frustrating. I was constantly greeted with the dreaded blue screen of death and always blowing into the game cartridges to try to get them to work. Not sure why that worked, but it did. I still have my NES and replaced the pin connecter and it works even better than it did back in the day.
I also had the Gameboy at that time too. The Gameboy was even more impressive to me because I could take it with me anywhere and play it and I loved that. It obviously wasn’t as good as the NES, but you couldn’t fit the NES in your pocket. Well, you couldn’t really fit a Gameboy in your pocket either because the thing was huge, but I could hold it in my hand no problem. I kept it and all my games in this G.I Joe box. I have no idea where the box came from or what was in it. I just remember having it and storing games in it. I still have it actually. Not sure what’s in it now though….maybe gold! *tears room apart looking for the box, finds it and opens it* Nope, no gold. Just some old school papers and a yoyo.
Both the NES and Gameboy would have to keep me entertained for a good number of years because I wouldn’t get my next system until Christmas of 1996. That was both a blessing and a curse…
My first game system was called Odyssey. It wasn't a cartridge system. It had a dial that would let you play like 7 or 8 games I think. They were all variations on Pong really. Still it was awesome! The first cartridge system we had was Atari. Pitfall was the first game I ever beat. I took a picture of the screen. =) I did eventually own the NES and The gameboy (which I still have and play)
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