Though I got a false start in the late 1980s with the Atari, I started gaming for real in the 8-bit era, around when the big boom in NES popularity hit (around 1990). I still have the whole family NES collection. I remember back then, when we all clamored for our turn to play the Super Mario Brothers games, while mom got thoroughly addicted to Dr. Mario. And how we begged for the Zelda games, with those cool golden cartridges.
The 16-bit era I spent as a PC gamer, unwillingly for the most part. But it did introduce me to the FPS genre, as well as the adventure game genre. And I did get to experience some 16-bit console games at friends' houses (which is how I found out about FF6). Xenogears and FF7 drew me back to console gaming, because by then I was getting tired of the largely inaccessible PC RPGs and wanted an RPG experience that was better suited to my tastes. For most of the 32-bit era, about all I played was RPGs.
Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.
