awoo woo

having amassed $75 in gamestop gift cards (most through e-rewards.com), i finally gave in and bought the one gaming system i've been eyeing for the past couple of years; it was the guitar hero edition that did it.

the last handheld i'd ever owned was the gameboy advance, before that, the original gameboy. my brother does have a psp (which was better after we put nintendo and sega games on it).



"The Gaming Years"

nes



before nintendo (early 80s), we had a system called socrates (which we pronounced so-crates) it pretty much made you spell words to get to the next level, none of us knew how to spell squirrel. my cousin had an atari, which we always played, then he got nintendo with contra. our parents got us so-crates. after our inability to pass level two, they returned it and got us a nintendo.

sega



hello sonic. i think sega was the better system at the time. the graphics looked great, the games ran smoother. I prefered sega versions of games that were made for both systems. nba jam! (i never had a turbo graphx, but i played an emulated version of it when i got older, that system would have tied for first, thanks to bonk and splatterhouse)

sega cd



this is a picture of our second sega. our first one (pictured above) wouldn't play games in color anymore and replacing the cables didn't help. a friend of ours gave us his sega cd (with no games). we never used it, but it looked cool.

super nintendo



super. it was all about the mario's at this point. that's really all this system was good for. oh and donkey kong 64, the graphics were stellar.

n64



since we had gotten a ps2, my brother gave away our original black n64 (with all our games) to a coworker. after awhile i got nostalgic missed destruction derby, nwo vs wcw, golden eye, mario party, etc. i use to play on emulators on my pc, since switching to a mac, i really never got back into it, so i retrieved a donkey kong edition n64.

dreamcast



my favorite system of all time. my brother use to go down to rocky's replay and drop quarters for hours on marvel vs capcom 2. my parents got him this as a birthday gift with said arcade game. dreamcast is all about marvel vs capcom 2, power stone 1 and 2, and house of the dead 2. As you can tell, my dreamcast has seen better days, it's a system that needs to be played daily, if not, most of your hours will be spent trying to bring it back to life.