My Video Game Life

My first video game console was the Nintendo Entertainment System. I was addicted to it around the age of five, but I was living a world with the classics, not knowing of the SNES or the N64. I got my N64 for my birthday, I believe I had just turned seven, but I could be wrong. The first game I played for it was Super Mario 64. It was amazing. I had seen nothing but an 8-bit Mario, and now seeing a 3 dimensional, 64-bit Mario, had changed my view on Video games. They made me think anything was possible. They made me believe that I could accomplish anything with Video Games! The graphics also gave me nightmares. Especially after playing Banjo Kazooie, which had a creepy feel to it. I had the N64 for a while, enjoying every bit of it, not seeing how the graphics could improve on any console. Then during Christmas of 2002, I got the Gamecube. Oh god, how happy I was. I felt like I was on top of the world. Super Mario Sunshine was the most beautiful game I had ever laid eyes on. The water, the sunshine, the characters, the design was so beautiful. The originality and controls of the game made me feel so happy. How could any game get better than this? A few years later, I really got mature enough to understand video games. This basically happened when I started getting on the internet. I understood how the gaming industry worked. I didn't really know of Playstation or Xbox before then. So I became.....a Nintendo fanboy. My friends all had Xboxes and PS2s. I refused to play them, instead I just watched. The games didn't look fun at all. They couldn't compare to my Mario. I had spent my whole life with Nintendo. Mario was fun, and that's all that mattered. I was sure I would never let anything gaming related Nintendo didn't make in my house. In mid 2005, everything changed. I bought a PS2 with 8 games and two controllers, for 70 bucks. I didn't really play the PS2 much, just Raw Vs Smackdown and Mortal Kombat. I still hayed Xbox. I thought they were completely evil. Then in early 2006, I heard about the Revolution, which is now called Wii. It looked amazing. For the entire year, I drooled over everything the Wii had. The footage, the message boards. I couldn't stop thinking about the Wii. I sat in front of the TV throughout G4, feeding on everything about the Wii. Then I saw it. Super Mario Galaxy. The Mario game that would fill me with so much joy and excitement, I would be forced into an insane asylum. It was around October that I decided to pre-order the Wii. I tried every store around, but non of them had any more pre-order spots. I was forced into a mild depression. November 19th was around the corner, and I wanted the Wii more and more, but my chances seem to have faded. I was browsing Wal*Mart's website, to check out what they had to say about the Wii. Then I realized, Wal*Mart doesn't take pre-orders! I begged my mother if I could wait in line for the Wii, getting information from the Nintendo Nsider Forums, and making small preparations, such as packing my DS and CD player. I finally convinced my mother to take me there. I was extremely excited. I called my friend to see if he wanted to come with me, and he agreed. I called the Wal*Mart to check how many people were there, they said about 14. That made me very nervous. What if I couldn't get a Wii? I would be heartbroken. We arrived around 12:00pm to find the 14 groups in line. A man with a sheet came up, he told me to sign it. I received a ticket from him that said "15." This guaranteed me a Nintendo Wii. I sighed in relief. Now I just had to face the bitter cold until 12:00am. I listened to music, played my DS, played Guitar Hero 2 inside, and played wall ball all day. As night arrived, it began to get colder. In fact, it was around twenty degrees. Everyone went into their tents. I of course didn't have a tent, so we bought one. It was a tiny, one person, child tent. Me and my friend had to squeez in there, and play the DS. The burning cold was hard to handle, and my throat became soar. I decided to sleep for the rest of our time. As it got around 10:30pm, a lady from Wal*Mart came out. She said we could all come inside at 11:00. We packed our stuff up, and stood there waiting, and waiting, and waiting. It was past 11:00, and no one came for us. One of the ladies in the group went inside to complain. They said we had to wait another 30 minutes to come in.The groups were furious. Finally, around 11:40pm, some lady came. She stood in front of the crowd and yelled, "everybody, follow me in a line." We did so. She led us to the layaway room, where we waited for about 20 minutes. The clock slowly progressed to 12:00am. Midnight arrived. Everyone got their Wii, games, and accessories in order. When it came to me, I picked a remote, a nunchuck, Legend Of Zelda Twilight Princess, Excite Truck, and Red Steel. It took my Wii, games, and controllers, and left. Today I still enjoy the Wii, anxiously awaiting Super Smash Bros Brawl, and Super Mario Galaxy. I didn't really get the joy I got with the N64 and Gamecube, but I'm missing one thing. The Mario game. When Galaxy is released, I believe my Wii happiness will be fulfilled, and I may relive the video game happiness I felt before, once again.