Zelda
My family never owned a nintendo, our mother nixed it. We did have a much-loved Atari 2600 and I don't think you could find anyone better at KABOOM or Keystone Kapers, Atari-knockoff activision titles that we got from our neighbors well past the Atari prime period. Me and my siblings also never really pined for a Nintendo having other things occupying our time.
That said I did have several chances to play Nintendo games: whether at our cousin's house in San Diego during summer vacation or at friend's houses. I learned fairly quickly that mastering Nintendo games (or any video games) requires one thing over all else: lots of time on the game. Therefore trying to compete against kids who owned machines and played all the time proved to be a much one-sided affair (not in my favor) and NO FUN AT ALL. To partially combat this machine-less imposed ineptitude I early decided to focus any game time I had on one game. In arcades meant focusing on Street Fighter II (esp. Ryu) and classic Star Wars and no Mortal Kombat. And for Nintendo this meant focusing all my time on the Legend of Zelda at the exclusino of Baseball Stars or Super Mario Bros or whatever hot new game of the month was. This tactic was effective because then when ever I played Zelda I knew I could pick up enough gametime to know some secrets and hold my own gameplay-wise.
It was also a good strategy because the Legend of Zelda IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER PRODUCED. EMINENTLY REPLAYABLE AND CHALLENGING, and set me upon a life long quest to play all the Zelda games. Of the handfull of video games that I have committed more than ten hours two, five of them have been Zelda titles. Of the five video games I have purchased, three of them have been Zelda titles. The only gaming system I own (post-youthful Atari 2600) was the original NES and I only own two games for it: the Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: the Adventure of Link. It has not, though led me into an internet fandom where I actually interact with other Zelda fans, it is a solitary pursuit, and it has also not been an obsesive pursuit that defines any large aspect of my self-identity. But it is a fun time and a way for me to kill time on the video games.
Soon I'll finish Wind Waker.
That said I did have several chances to play Nintendo games: whether at our cousin's house in San Diego during summer vacation or at friend's houses. I learned fairly quickly that mastering Nintendo games (or any video games) requires one thing over all else: lots of time on the game. Therefore trying to compete against kids who owned machines and played all the time proved to be a much one-sided affair (not in my favor) and NO FUN AT ALL. To partially combat this machine-less imposed ineptitude I early decided to focus any game time I had on one game. In arcades meant focusing on Street Fighter II (esp. Ryu) and classic Star Wars and no Mortal Kombat. And for Nintendo this meant focusing all my time on the Legend of Zelda at the exclusino of Baseball Stars or Super Mario Bros or whatever hot new game of the month was. This tactic was effective because then when ever I played Zelda I knew I could pick up enough gametime to know some secrets and hold my own gameplay-wise.
It was also a good strategy because the Legend of Zelda IS THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER PRODUCED. EMINENTLY REPLAYABLE AND CHALLENGING, and set me upon a life long quest to play all the Zelda games. Of the handfull of video games that I have committed more than ten hours two, five of them have been Zelda titles. Of the five video games I have purchased, three of them have been Zelda titles. The only gaming system I own (post-youthful Atari 2600) was the original NES and I only own two games for it: the Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: the Adventure of Link. It has not, though led me into an internet fandom where I actually interact with other Zelda fans, it is a solitary pursuit, and it has also not been an obsesive pursuit that defines any large aspect of my self-identity. But it is a fun time and a way for me to kill time on the video games.
Soon I'll finish Wind Waker.
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