The very first video game I ever played was this LED handheld... it had some military-esque name... Battle something maybe? You played this jet that had to fly over and bomb submarines (which could shoot back up at you, apparently), and on the second level they added battleships (which make more sense, shooting-back-at-you-wise), and the third level had helicopters (which you hit with a missile instead of a bomb). The opening level sound effects and the death music were a family joke for a couple years.
Then, of course, friends with NESs or SNESs... my brother (11 years older than me) took me to his friends' houses, and I'm pretty sure one of them had a Turbografx... I actually remember the episode of Barney and Friends some other friend of his had on VHS better. What can I say? I was 6 years old.
Then on my 7th birthday, I got the best gift a kid could ask for:
Except mine came with Link to the Past packed-in.
My first night with it, I spent literally 10 minutes reading and re-reading the opening cutscene, practically memorizing the history of Hyrule and the Golden Power, because the controller wouldn't work. But I wouldn't put it into the P1 port, because I wanted to be Luigi. Eventually, my father got me to play Mario, and I was asked for a name, and then the Great Warrior of Hyrule, OM 107 was born.
