The first video game i ever remember playing is Pole Position for the Atari 7800, when i was two or three. That game still rules.
I remember my cousin had an NES, (didn't everyone's?) and when i was there we'd rock the shit out of River City Ransom, still my absolute favorite NES game
ever. When we got ours, we had SMB, Duck Hunt, Metroid, Castlevania, 8 Eyes, The Flintstones, and some other stuff i don't recall.
When my brother bought an SNES all we had was Home Alone. I played the hell out of it. Then we got Pink Panther, Harley's Humongous Adventure, Aladdin, and some other stuff that my brother bought cheap. We mostly rented games, with FF2 and Lufia 2 being exceptionally memorable, they were the first RPGs i had ever played.
The first game i ever beat was Aladdin. My brother didn't let me in his room often enough to play any games to the point of beating them. And, seriously, some of those games were fucking HARD, even if you totally ruled at games when you were but a wee tot.
All i ever really liked on the gameboy was Mario Land. Final Fantasy sucked.
I remember being in Toys R Us when i first heard about the n64. It was mind blowing, to be able to press the buttons on the panel and see all these awesome 3D games. Later i realized that a large sum of them sucked, but i still had fun with a few, like Mario 64, Body Harvest, WCW vs NWO, Bomberman Hero, Mystical Ninja, Chameleon Twist, Rampage, Zelda 64, Shadows of the Empire, and Yoshi's Story. In fact, i'm planning on repurchasing that system and a lot of the games i used to play. I had access to the n64 because my dad bought us the system for christmas, so i have a lot more memories regarding it. This was from fourth to sixth grade, so my brother was pretty busy out skateboarding or whatever, he was in high school by then. Yeah, i'm young. Sue me.
I remember that i was blown away by Street Fighter II when it came out. My family still went to church at the time, so my mother thought it was wildly inappropriate for me to play such a game. Don't even ask about Mortal Kombat.
I have lots of video game memories. But i think my favorite has to be Aeris' death when i played FF7. I mean, come on, that was like the saddest moment in videogame history for me. It was astonishing. I'm listening to her theme right now, and it still makes me kind of sad to think about it. I think it's the only time a videogame has ever actually moved me. But don't tell anyone, i won't be KVLT anymore.
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