Oops, lol. Anyways I am still in the same boat as you as I no longer try to chase 100% completion or high scores and instead opt to just take my time, enjoy the game and then move onto the next one.

I was like 5 or 6 and my brother used to have a turbo grafix (I think that's what it was called)

He played splatter house all the time which scared the living shit out of me.

I think it was Super Mario Bros. 3 that turned me into a gaming monster. I was never able to play when my brother had his high school friend over and they would play for hours, but I drooled every second I watched.  And boy when I finally got my hands on that game I felt like I was in heaven.

When I moved over seas ( I was like 8) I took my SNES with me. It broke down a couple months later. Unfortunately for me, no one fixed SNESs where I lived. I went for like 3 years without gaming. In 1997 my dad sent me a gift, a PlayStation. It destroyed my life.

That original PS is still at my granfather's house with a library of at least 80 games. If I ever go back to the Middle East, I'm taking them back!

Thank you for reading my life story.

Just as I did with Diablo 2 (Which absorbed at least 3 years of my life) I never watched cutscenes. I always focused on just the gameplay.

Baaah, that's not how a real gamer is supposed to play! You got to appreciate every little details!

A Turbografx in the middle east?

Was it, like, the ONLY one?

First game I played was bubble bobble on my friends C64. Got a C64 that christmas and quickly grew out of platformers.

Elite, Archon, Pirates, M.U.L.E, Ultima (couple of them), Defender of the crown, Leaderboard, Skate or die, Kikstart, Wizard of Wor, Test drive, Infiltrator, Samantha fox strip poker (!), Maniac mansion, Arkanoid, Silent service.... and plenty more, so many good games.

It was so funny back then when those kids with NES were so proud of their "mario pros". :D

Bolded

Yo, I want to play the new Splatterhouse!

Anyways, about SMB3, how did you play it? Me I preferred to complete world 1, get the P Wing, finish world 2, get the Cloud, then jump to world 8 and use the Cloud on the annoying castle level and the P Wing on the fast flying ship. 

Always made the game much easier.

Like you though my life was also destroyed by the PS1, mainly Square Soft... oh how I miss when Square and Enix were separate companies. Everything was so much better back then. Enix would make fun games with crap stories with great gameplay and Square would make great stories and great gameplay.

Now we still get some great gameplay but it is like they gave the stories to the crappy story makers from Enix.

Doom, Duke Nukem and Link's Awakening = Never look back. lol

My point exactly - you were 6 when you had it, and 8 when you moved overseas... pointing to  that you had it in the mideast...