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During this time the NES’s replacement, the SNES, had come out, and tantalized me with a huge library of games that I had essentially locked myself out of playing. Eventually I sold my NES and my games for it, certain they would not be missed. But constantly disconnecting one system to set up the other got tedious, NES cartridges got scarcer every year, and the many titles I had read about and never located or played became distant dreams. I kept the NES for a while, as there were still good games to be played, and it wasn’t hard to persuade friends who had moved on from it to let me borrow their cartridges indefinitely. Even the controller was a marvel – three face buttons instead of two? And so I got one, and gradually amassed a collection of cartridges over the years. No Nintendo game looked this good, sounded this good, had so much energy. Sonic the Hedgehog was the pack-in game, and I knew I had to have it.

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I would rent a new Nintendo game almost weekly, read books and magazines about Nintendo, computer games, and programming, and whenever possible, I would find places where there were computers around, and virtually turn them inside out looking for new games and software to play around with.Įventually I learned of and previewed a new video game system called the Sega Genesis.

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Learning how to program the computer took out a lot of the mystique of video games, but led me to much better appreciate the logic, design, and sheer amount of work that went into making even the most barely functional of them. All of that would come in time.Īnd in time, I would possess my own Nintendo, and soon an IBM clone personal computer. I didn’t care that I hadn’t the skills to beat the first level, nor did I even understand the concept of levels, and my friend who owned the Nintendo was too impatient to allow me any real time practicing. The possibilities were immense beyond imagination every minute was an experience nobody had seen before, and that nobody would ever see again. When I pushed on the plus sign on the corded remote in my hand, the little cartoon man on the screen walked! When I pushed one of the round buttons, he jumped! In my naiveté, I wondered how the Nintendo could have possibly animated every possible outcome of the game ahead of time.

But Nintendo was something truly magical the images on the screen weren’t the immutable recordings of VHS tapes, but an extension of my own will. Video itself had already been an important part of my life, and I greatly preferred video tapes, rented or recorded, to watching broadcast TV, because it put me in control over what I watched and when I watched it.

My history, adventures, experience, and observations as a gamerĮver since the very first day I saw a Nintendo, video games and computers have fascinated me.

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