The obligatory introductory Post.

Passionate early 20s video game enthusiast, among many other things.

I often ponder a lot of gaming-related things, and I've figured a blog would be a great platform for potentially having my individual voice heard. Hopefully someone can relate to my musings, or click away from these pages having learned something new and interesting pertaining to the hobby, or, for many of us, the lifestyle. I'll probably even start to write up some posts about other mildly related stuff from time to time.

I've also started collecting games for consoles with the intent of playing them, and have recently desired to collect for and re-acquaint myself with systems of generations past, and to discover the even older "retro" consoles that I had never been able to explore. I'll most likely review these games as I play them, and hopefully someone will benefit from that.

Ever since I was a young kid in the 90's, my parents first purchased an N64 console for me with a copy of "Namco Museum" and then there was Super Mario 64 - My first tastes of the video game media form, ranging from 2D arcade classics to what would become an old-school 3D classic. From those two games on, I was hooked.

So I wasn't spoiled with high-resolution 3D hyper-realism from an early age as many gamers today are (and I'm sure that there are some of you older folks who'd consider me to have been spoiled with my SM64s), my initial experiences were with 68-bit 3D games, and with relatively less exposure to the sprite-based home console stuff. For example, I'd often come over to a neighborhood friend's house and played Super Mario World on his SNES, and I also had a radioactive green Gameboy Color and purple Gameboy Advance.

I never owned an SNES until recently, or any other predominantly 2D console for that matter. Never crossed my mind, unfortunately. Am now going to build up a decent but small library of SNES games, before I find myself a Sega Genesis next to experience for myself. Never even realized Sega had built consoles besides the Dreamcast. How ignorant of me!