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| Video Game Euphoria |
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
For those of you who know me I have a sever addiction to Video Games and it has been something I have done for a very long time now. Starting with games like Tempest, Space Invaders, Breakout,Pac Man ect get the picture? But I wasn't yet the addict that I am now.
That took place a while later. I met quite possibly my best friend while in Military school, Eddie is pretty much the person responsible for my addiction to video games and comic books. Thanks Ed thanks a whole fucking lot now I have this habbit that is worse than crack. Just kidding buddy. But he introduced me to the original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). The first game I played was Mario Brothers and I thought it coudln't possibly get any better than this. Of course I didn't have my own system so I could only play it while at his house or if he brought it over to my house. The first actual system I owned was an Atari that didn't even have cartridges. I can't remember the exact numbering of the system but it was before the 2600 system. It had Break out pinball and a 3 other games built in and I thought it was cool till that damn NES. Well after alot of begging and whinning my grandmother finaly broke down and agreed to buy me a system. Of course not knowing the difference she bought me the Atari 7500 ( I think thats the correct numbering) anyways I convinced myself that it was better than the NES which it wasn't but I still tried to lie to myself. At the time the cartridges for the system were like 20 to 30 bucks pretty damn expensive for the early 80s so I didn't have quite a huge collection. But I played it extensively, especialy pitfall. A few years passed and of course once again Eddie being the innovator had a SNES ( Super Nintendo Entertainment System). Granted I had 2 systems and I thought they were great but what the SNES was pumping out was just incredible.I didn't think Mario could look any better. I had to have a SNES but that just wasn't going to happen the system was over 100 bucks and I just couldn't convince my grandmother to buy one, at least not yet. Fast foward to 1988 and I got kidnapped and dropped off in no man's land, ok so I wasn't exactly kidnapped but it was no mans land. I ended up in Lakeland Fl. Lakeland Fl you say? yes Lakeland FL. it't between Tampa and Orlando but enough of that. When I moved here with my grandmother I had my trusty Atari systems but I needed more electronic goodness. By now the SNES and The Sega Genisis were out for a while and little shops that traded games and systems started to pop up my chance had arrived. I picked up a barely used SNES and Sega Genisis both for 80 bucks plus a few games to boot. It wasn't a bad deal and I was in heaven. At least for a while. I soon re-discovered an old friend called the arcade and soon forgot about my home systems even though I had 4 of them now and well over 80+ combined cartridges. A little game called Street Fighter 2 is what did it. I was at a water park called adventrue Island in Tampa and they had an arcade, while looking for something to eat I stumbled upon it. There tucked away in the corner was a horde of kids surrounding this machine I didn't understand why. All the other games were bare no one around them I had to find out what was going on. I walked over and for the first time since Pac man felt the old flame rekindle. I put my quaters up signifying that I wanted to play and anxiously awaited my turn. Then the moment of truth came, I put my quarter in and chose my character which happened to be Blanka. I got my ass handed to me in less than a minute. I was horrified at the skill it took to play the game. After wasting about 5 bucks I decided it was time to get back to the water action but knew that there was a game that I needed to master. After about 3 days of searching convience stores and mall arcades I found the game that had beaten me into stupidity. With 10 bucks in quarters in my pockets I was determined to master the game. I was lucky there was no one at the machine and began playing. The machine took quarter after quater and then I began to learn the commands and soon the quarters were not disapearing as fast. After about 5 hours standing next to a machine cursing then jumping around and laughing I was kicked out by the cashier but I was confident because out of the original 10 bucks I had I still had 4 I felt vindicated. I drove around some more with the intention of finding compitition to test my new fighting skills. I was succesful, at a Circle K close to where I lived I stumbled upon another Street Fighter 2 game I was extactic. I waited for the poor unfortunate soul who would challenge my skills. After waiting for about 30 minutes a victim had walked in through the door, the kid walked to the counter and placed a 5 dollar bill on the counter and requested quarters. He got his change and walked over to where I was waiting for him. The game had begun, quarter after quarter I dumped into the machine while this kid was only on his first one. I was furious my skills were not enough. Then a break thru, I chose Chun Li and the domination began. Soon the kid was broken and quarterless I had done it. On weekends I would frequent arcades and and convience stores to continue to develop my skills and take kids money. This went on for years with different Such as Tekken,Mortal Kombat and Dark Stalkers also including the many incarnations of Street Fighter.
Then the new home consoles began to apear, the Sega Saturn and unproven new Sony Play Station. I opted for the Satrun at first and had quite a huge collection of games for it but the games weren't all that great they were poorly produced and the games were substandard with the exception of a few gems. I evntually broke down and sold my Sega Saturn and brought a Playstation. I was content the games were unbeliveable and I thought it just can't get better than this. Durring this time the Nintendo 64 arrived as well as the Atari Jaguar. At first I thought that the Jaguar was going to be the system to beat but I soon realized that the system was pure shit and was glad I never bought it. The Nintendo 64 looked pretty good except it was still cartridge based and the controller really sucked so I passed on that as well. Then The Sega Dreamcast came out and the graphics were just breath taking I couldn't belive it. I dropped over 600 bucks on it including 4 games an additonal controler and 2 memory cards. Then the Playstation 2 arrived on the scene and I felt that my Dreamcast was a superior system even though Sony had firmly rooted itself in just about every gamers household. After a while the dreamcast lost steam and they stopped making games for it, it was a dead system I was so pissed. I eventually bought a PS2 and was really happy with it although I still play my Dreamcast since I never got rid of it and the games were just that damn good. Of course now with my PS2 I have well over 60 games and my collection just keeps growing, but now I also have a Nintendo Gamecube and a Microsoft Xbox. Both good systems but they don't hold a candle to my PS2 even though the graphics are somewhat better on the GC and Xbox The PS2 has better marketing and control. And even though there are exclusive titles on the GC and Xbox they aren't all that good and the games that those 2 systems have are already on the PS2 so the choice is easy when I buy my games.
Now the cycle will repeat again soon with the introduction of the PS3 or what ever it will be called the Xbox2 and the Nintendo Revolution. Which one will be the dominate system? Only time will tell but I am sure I will be playing them all because no matter what system I chose now I still win.
Wired Wizard.
If I close my eyes will you go away? |
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