It's about time for that first post!

So I've been having issues in my personal life preventing me from posting (either that or my procrastination) so apoligies for the postings.

I will be attempting either a daily or everyother day type posting schedule.

Anyways...

So my first gaming experience was when I was a wee lad. I cant pick an age or a year (even though it was for sure the 1990s). My mom had sega saturns (she had two for some odd reason), a sega genesis, a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) a SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), and a couple of other ones. The one I remember is the classic Nintendo 64, and the good old 64 game Banjo Kazooie.

As a youngin, I didn't have the higher order thinking for the games requiring brain power. I just picked a game, messed around in the first two levels, and then move on the barbies (because back then, barbies were cool).

Banjo Kazooie is about Banjo (a bear) and Kazooie (a bird) that must rescue Banjo's sister Tooty (also a bear) from the Evil Witch Gruntilda before shw can suck Tooty's beauty into her (Gruntilda is one UGLY woman). If anyone remembers how Super Mario 64 worked, Banjo Kazooie uses a similar system. There is a hub-world (the area to get to the levels) and the actual levels.

I usually ended up playing the first two levels. I wandered aimlessly around kind of sure what was going on, and then not sure of getting what I needed to movw one. There are two main things to collect in the levels to unlock more of the hub world. Jigsaw pieces (Jiggies) and notes. Jiggies unlocked new levels, and notes opend doors to new parts of the hubworld. 

I could only get enough for the first two levels before dying at almost every turn.

If it wasn't death by oranges thrown at me by a giant monkey, it was death by a shark. I can control my rage for gaming now, but back then, control was a word I could not even spell.

So aimless wandering, not much higher level thinking, and eXtreme gamer's rage might say that I shouldnt play video games that young. But wait, what about the nightmares?

That's right, I have nightmares from video games (still can't play a game at night as a result). There was one scene, ONE SCENE in Banjo Kazooie that led me to the dark places of dreaming (had to sleep with my mother). It was the game over sequence where grunty achieves her goal to be beautiful. But can't these scenes be skipped, April? Nope. The first game over you get, you much watch this scene. I don't know what scared me more. Tooty's ugly apperance or the creepy music at the end. Probably a mixture of both.

I blame my first experience for giving me my creepy dreams, but I also blame it for enhancing my life. I had an older brother, so we would both take turns playing and we really bonded over this. I started to play solo games as I got older, but these games let me enter a world and temporarily be someone else and experience fantasy. To me, my first experience is a personal part of my childhood, and one I will never forget.

So what was your first experience?