I have a large history with video games, stuff that I often cannot remember. Let's start with Nintendo products.
1998:Around the time I was born, my dad and my older brother by 7 years had an NES and a SNES. They played a lot of fighting games, and they even had a Mario game lying around (I think). Apparently, I played the SNES when I was like 2, but hey I wouldn't know for sure. We also had an N64, and a key title was released when I turned 3 years old:
Ocarina of Time. OoT is an absolutely legendary game. It released on my birthday as well as my older bro's birthday; in Japan on mine and in North America on my brother's. Guess what? My dad got OoT for my bro's birthday, and I've fell in love with the title ever since. My dad and bro had a completed save file within a couple days, and I would always go on that file just to fight Ganondorf because it was a fun battle imo. Anywho, around that time, I've enjoyed games like
Killer Instinct Gold, Goldeneye 007, Super Smash Bros., Perfect Dark, Super Mario 64, Bomberman 64, Bomberman Hero, F-Zero X, and many others. Yeah, fun stuff eh?
~2003:Fast forward a couple years and we're in the release window of the GameCube. My dad got a GameCube back then for two reasons: one he knew I loved LoZ and every GameCube being sold came with a Collector's Edition disc. I was estatic when he got a GC, but when we opened up the box it didn't have a CE disc. Guess what he did? He totally took the product back and demanded a CE disc, and got it he did for no extra cost. Playing OoT on GC? Amazing stuff. Anyway, the second reason is for a sweet game called
Soul Calibur II. It featured Link, which was part of the reason my dad got the game, but he had so much history with Soul prior to that including playing Edge/Blade in arcade, and of course see my SEGA section of this post. The very first thing my dad did when he got SC2, I remember this clearly, is bumping the difficulty up to Extremely Hard and playing through Arcade using Mitsurugi. He almost killed the TV because he died against Inferno like a bajillion times, it was hilarious. He would spend ALL NIGHT LONG playing SC2, not even joking, because the game was THAT GOOD. I myself enjoyed several hours with Weapon Master Mode, something I sorely miss in the crappy releases that are Soul Calibur IV/V.
Aside from CE and SC2, my little brother and I happened to buy
Kirby Air Ride, one of the best racing games I have EVER played. People hate KAR, I personally don't see why. I remember we had the Air Ride and iirc Top Ride Checklists almost 100%ed, haha. We also managed to get
Luigi's Mansion,
Wind Waker,
Super Smash Bros Melee (with Melee, man, we used to party HARD at my house; my two cousins would bring their two GC controllers over and we'd have four player smashtastic fun with Domino's Pizza back when they were good), and a couple other vidya gaems. I loved the GC era. Around this time, I saw the TP '04 or whatever trailer. I was like "who is that wolf? and where is Zelda?".
Resident Evil 4 for the GC is like so amazing. The lightning is fantastic. The scare is exuberant. People say RE4 is an action game, I look at them with a :? face all the time. RE4 =/= action. Sure it has action, but the horror and the scare permeate everything you see, ever. And Ashley, God I hate Ashley.
RE4 = a seriously good time.
Oh, but the GC isn't the only thing. The GBA had a life for me; several Mario games that I played over at my uncle's apartment in Las Vegas, the Oracle games that my mom and I bought for $10, Fire Emblem Sacred Stones...I recall seeing
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance in the store, but because Eirika/Ephraim weren't on the cover, I thought the game was incredibly dumb. Apparently people hate FE9, lol. Minish Cap was played in this time.
Let's not forget Zelda Classic.
~2007:I sees the Wii is a real thing, I really wanted one because TP was a launch game for it. Too bad I never got the chance to own one myself. Around this time I didn't do much Nintendo wise. Actually no, I take that back. I hacked Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones as well as Rekka no Ken, and managed to upload a variety of videos to the Internet, gaining a bunch of views for my Tower of Valni hack that featured
Sky Sands, a track from Kirby Air Ride, throughout the video. Unfortunately, due to copyright strikes from Jagex and WMG, my good YouTube account got suspended. Sadfaec, but hey, it was a good run.
SUPER SMASH BROS BRAWL E3, I FOLLOWED THE DOJO EVERY SINGLE DAY EVEN AFTER RELEASE.
~2008-2012:Around this time I joined ZeldaDungeon (May 2010; it's on my profile page haha), huge Zelda site to fuel my needs. A bunch of Nintendo games that I can't be bothered to list were released, I played a deal of them...yeah. By this time today,
Skyward Sword released which I think is the worst Zelda ever if you don't count CD-Is. Amazing titles like
Super Paper Mario,
Super Mario Galaxy,
Super Smash Bros Brawl,
Goldeneye Wiiloaded were released, enjoyed.
Nowadays:Wii U is releasing soon. Hyped for whatever Mario games it has in store.
I want a 3DS because OoT3D. and KH3D. Honestly, I'm working at my job solely to get a 3DS, nothing more. Screw college, screw girls, screw high school, screw food. I want a 3DS, because Face Raiders and the games on it.
Sony
~1998:My best friend had a PS1 back in the day. There is this one racing game called
Supercross 2000 or something like that. Absolutely spectacular game. We played other stuff that I can't remember, but Supercross 2000 is the game that is most memorable. Also, the PS1 bootup music is like blissfulness.
~2002:The infamous PlayStation 2 released. My dad and my bro had this
FIFA game (I liked soccer in KG), they got
MotoGP, Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec which is arguably the best freaking racing game ever made which I definitely attest to,
Final Fantasy X (we rented it),
Tekken Tag Tournament (omg this game is absolutely fantastic), thatone
Tenchugame, and several others. The PS2 in all was a great era.
~2008: Final Fantasy XII dominated my life. Over 400 hours logged into that one game within about a month's time. Best FF game EVER MADE.
Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II, reading up on the FMs...yup.
Star Wars Battlefront II.
~2010: Star Ocean Till the End of Time, best JRPG ever. Logged too many hours in this game to count. Powergrinding, Disc 1 grinding, overleveling, underleveling. I got Full Active Mode within a year, but it was damn well worth it. SO3 = absolutely amazing.
Nowadays: Eh, I want a PS3 to play Resident Evil 5 Gold. Other than that, idk.
Microsoft
~2001: Xbox was released around this time, thought it looked ugly so YO HUH BOOM BOOM didn't care for it. The end.
~2010: My dad had an Xbox 360, he gave it to us. I played
Final Fantasy XIII because the case had some kinda holographic essence to it, which I thought and think to be cool. I bought
Resident Evil 5. Later I got
Call of Duty Black Ops. Then I got
Soul Calibur IV and Star Ocean The Last Hope. NEXT I got
Sonic 2006. I regret getting SC4 and SO4, and definitely regret Sonic 2006. However, I have a love/hate relationship with SC4 as well as SO4 so idk. I love RE5, I later got the Gold Edition DLC and logged SO MANY HOURS into Mercenaries Reunion, literally spent my summer vacation as well as all my breaks playing Reunion online, I got rank 100-somethin on the leaderboards for 360 Prison 886k with my little bro <3
Black Ops is the best CoD in my opinion. Everything flows perfectly. The maps that come with launch are absolutely fantastic. Spawns are great, though spawntrapping needs fixing. The DLC maps are even better. BO >>>> every other CoD combined, IMO.
Now for Soul Calibur IV, I care for it only for these two characters:
Amy and Nightmare. Sieg is cool but I love Nightmare and Amy; I used only those two characters for Tower of Lost Souls. Ever.
SO4 is a terrible game but I love Reimi and Edge and Lym and Bacchus.
Nowadays:I have a 360 in my closet. I want to trade it to my uncle for a PS3, then perhaps make a Let's Play someday. I hate the 360, and I hate Xbox Live.
PC/SEGA brief
I played the Dreamcast and loved it because Soul Calibur, Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and several other amazing games (Ecco the Dolphin, Shenmue, Dead or Alive which my dad and bro played FOREVER)...it's a huge shame SEGA doesn't make hardware anymore.I played PC a lot. Diablo II which is the best of the Diablo series, seriously III is a huge let down and it sucks butt. Later I played StarCraft, Warcraft, Guild Wars, KOTOR and a couple other amazing games.
Currently, I'm gonna be playing Guild Wars 2, KOTOR, SWB2, CoDMW3.