kitler53 on 28 January 2014
| DevilRising said: Well..............I certainly wouldn't call myself a "fanboy". I believe there is a distinct difference between being a fan and fanboy, one being positive and the other quite negative. A fan of something has an abiding love and passion for a specific thing. A fanboy professes blind love for that said thing, but also tends to exhibit behavior that not only says otherwise, but also uses it (in this internet age of ours) as an excuse to blindly hate against anything else not said specific thing. So yeah, being a "fanboy" is not a good thing. As for why I'm a FAN of Nintendo? Well, my first gaming experiences were Pac-Man and Dig Dug in the arcade at a very young age, followed by a Tandy home computer that actually played games through a tape-deck, and a hand-me-down Atari 2600 from a cousin. I always liked video games. I loved Pac-Man as a tiny kid, even though I was no good at it. Same with a game I loved on 2600 called "Astroblast". But I didn't FALL IN LOVE with gaming, until I got an NES around age 8. Super Mario Bros. was my first gaming crush, which was then quickly taken over by Super Mario Bros. 3, which to this day is my favorite game. I love the NES because to me, it was the best console of all time. No, obviously it's not the most powerful (that goes without saying). And a system like the SNES or PS1 obviously had it better with certain genres like rpgs. But NES had everything, and it was the unconquered king of platformers and action games. So many great games and franchises either saw their start or first got popular on the NES, including Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, Kirby, Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Punch Out, TMNT, Double Dragon, Ninja Gaiden, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Ikari Warriors, R-Type, Bomberman, Adventure Island, Gradius, Tetris, RC Pro Am, Battletoads, Bionic Commando, Rygar, etc. etc. etc. Ultimately, I love the NES because to me, it was the king of consoles. When I play NES/8-bit games, to me, THAT feels like gaming. And as for why I still love Nintendo? Because over the years, while things have obviously changed, they still make the type of games that interest me and that I enjoy playing. They're just about the only old school game developer I used to love that still actually puts out games I want to play. |
sorry. you should have read the fine print. ..by posting in this thread you've accepted the terms and conditions of being labled a fanboy.
on a serious note: i'm surprised no one is voting for "it was my first". i figured more people would be fans of the first company they bought into. to me nintendo was always >>>> sega even though i had never played a sega game until on ps3. i didn't need to play because my heart was already invested in nintendo.
