| SKMBlake said: Well, if we can go through our personal history on when, why and how Nintendo reached our heart, I think we need to have several approaches regarding our, at the time, knowledge of video games, how often we would play it (or still play it today), and other related stuff I guess. For my perspective, and my personal story, my real first video game was actually Super Mario Bros, on an hacked chinese console my parents bought in Turkey and which was commonly called "atari" (oddly enough). We had 1 cartridge full of games, but the most pleasant game was indeed Super Mario Bros, so we would spend hours to play it. (Contra was aslo fine tho, we would play it with my brother). And then, I saw several times my cousins playing Super Mario All Stars on their SNES (which I didn't own) and then Super Mario 64 (didn't own either), but I had a Game Boy (with my sole cartridge being Pokémon Blue). Got a refurbished PlayStation once the PS2 was released, played essentially the Demo 1 disc which was in it (at that time, games were really expensive and my parents wouldn't want to spend money on video games). But I had a PC, and that's when I discovered the emulation world, and would play several Nintendo 64 games on my pc (not an easy task). And until 2014, I never had the opportunity to actually own a console (mostly played on a low-end PC), and that's when I bought a PS3 (to play GTA V) and then a Wii Mini with Super Mario Galaxy 2 (one of the best games I've ever played). So basically, that's when I started to specifically choose Nintendo consoles and games over everything else, cause it reminds me my childhood and I still think playing on a low-end Nintendo Console is always way more pleasant than playing on a huge beefed-up gaming console. And my dearest apologies for any mistake I possibly made while I was writing my post. |
Had almost the same experience with that fake console that we, people living in the underdeveloped side of the world, called "Atari" with its 150-games cartridge. Every family possessed one for it being cheap, and it was the mainstream console that introduced gaming to everyone in my country, including adults. (Then came MASSIVELY the PS1 that sold extremely well because it was easilly hackable).
So Duck Hunt and Mario Bros for me on that "Atari" (like evereyone in my country as i suppose).
Basically we didn't know that they were nintendo games due to the fact they run on a corrupted system. Nintendo was accidentally introduced to every tunisian home.
Then, Pokémon was aired on a french TVchannel (year 2000/2001) making me an instant hardcore fan of the series, and seeing all the ads compelled me to sweat really hard to get extremely high marks at school so i can get my gameboy and Pokémon Red (500 hours of play, i deserved that anyway).
That same period, my uncle owned a SNES and my aunt a MegaDrive. Had a lot of fun watching them play games on both systems, but ended up playing SNES games more, and especially F-zero. Untill one day, my uncle rented the unique game he found in stores, and it had to be Super Metroid. He didn't like it, but i ended up playing it the whole summer spending probably 50 hours to beat it, and it was one of the best things i've ever played being one of the most challenging games at that time.
So yeah: Duck Hunt+ Mario Bros//Pokémon Red//F-zeo and Metroid for me.
