How did you get familiar with gaming?
It seems easy now, just turn on your tv or go on the internet and gaming videos are almost slamming through the screen but more than twenty years ago that was a lot different. I'm not saying that there were no commercials but gaming was by far not as big as it is now, so getting familiar with gaming was actually not that common because most people wouldn't even admit having a console. It seems silly now but people weren't that comfortable to talk about games because some were afraid of being bullied for that and others just kept that information to themselves not thinking that others would like games as much as they like it. I'm not saying that this is how it was for everyone but this is how it was here when I grew up.
First contact with games.
It was nothing new for me, I've seen games on tv or in movies where people would play games but I never saw that as something I would do. I think the main reason was because I didn't consider it as something that was possible over here, I lived in the middle of nowhere, and so I didn't gave it much thought. But when I was nine I visited a friend and he got a NES console from his parents, so the moment I was playing on that console I knew I wanted that as well. So I asked my parent for about six months and then I finally got it on my birthday. That was like the best birthday ever! I think that I spend weeks on the first couple of games I got with it. Eventhough I was first terrible I actually got pretty good with platform games and some action/adventure games.
You don't talk about games!
I never made a secret out of my new hobby but I didn't exactly talk that much about it either, I mean if friends came over then they would see that I have a console and that I play games but it's not that I kept talking about it at school. I guess that's how it was at that time, people talked about other things and games weren't considered as cool so people didn't really talk about that. But some people that do like playing games would eventually find eachother, probably also because more and more people started playing games. Several years later as a teenager things hadn't changed that much though, at least it didn't feel like they had changed. But there was one big change, girls! Girls suddenly became interesting and how do you impress a girl? Well not with playing games, so once again I kept my hobby a bit in the background and tried to impress them with other hobbies and things I do. But sooner or later she would find out that I play games, a lot of games actually, and not every girl was happy with that. At that time playing games was still not interesting, even now some guys and girls still think playing games is lame, and so that would usually not end well for the relationship. So I still didn't talk much about games, well I did with friends but that gets old real fast when you talk about the same games with the same people all the time.
Make your own path.
Eventhough gaming wasn't popular when I was a kid I never let it keep me from playing games, which is a good thing because up to this point I've had a lot of fun playing games. Sure some of my friends didn't like games and not every girl I dated was loved that I spend a lot of time on playing games, but it never kept me from playing games. Because why be someone else if being the person you are makes you happy? So instead of trying to be cool or being popular with girls I just did my own thing, ok I wasn't the most interesting guy out there but that's fine because I never really was interested in that. When I look back I have no regrets, I had fun and I'm still having fun playing games. Games didn't ruin my life, they actually gave my life colour and music. Something I might have never discovered without games. So if you play games and you don't have friends around you that understand or like that then don't let that discourage you, do your own thing if that makes you happy!
First contact with games.
It was nothing new for me, I've seen games on tv or in movies where people would play games but I never saw that as something I would do. I think the main reason was because I didn't consider it as something that was possible over here, I lived in the middle of nowhere, and so I didn't gave it much thought. But when I was nine I visited a friend and he got a NES console from his parents, so the moment I was playing on that console I knew I wanted that as well. So I asked my parent for about six months and then I finally got it on my birthday. That was like the best birthday ever! I think that I spend weeks on the first couple of games I got with it. Eventhough I was first terrible I actually got pretty good with platform games and some action/adventure games.
You don't talk about games!
I never made a secret out of my new hobby but I didn't exactly talk that much about it either, I mean if friends came over then they would see that I have a console and that I play games but it's not that I kept talking about it at school. I guess that's how it was at that time, people talked about other things and games weren't considered as cool so people didn't really talk about that. But some people that do like playing games would eventually find eachother, probably also because more and more people started playing games. Several years later as a teenager things hadn't changed that much though, at least it didn't feel like they had changed. But there was one big change, girls! Girls suddenly became interesting and how do you impress a girl? Well not with playing games, so once again I kept my hobby a bit in the background and tried to impress them with other hobbies and things I do. But sooner or later she would find out that I play games, a lot of games actually, and not every girl was happy with that. At that time playing games was still not interesting, even now some guys and girls still think playing games is lame, and so that would usually not end well for the relationship. So I still didn't talk much about games, well I did with friends but that gets old real fast when you talk about the same games with the same people all the time.
Make your own path.
Eventhough gaming wasn't popular when I was a kid I never let it keep me from playing games, which is a good thing because up to this point I've had a lot of fun playing games. Sure some of my friends didn't like games and not every girl I dated was loved that I spend a lot of time on playing games, but it never kept me from playing games. Because why be someone else if being the person you are makes you happy? So instead of trying to be cool or being popular with girls I just did my own thing, ok I wasn't the most interesting guy out there but that's fine because I never really was interested in that. When I look back I have no regrets, I had fun and I'm still having fun playing games. Games didn't ruin my life, they actually gave my life colour and music. Something I might have never discovered without games. So if you play games and you don't have friends around you that understand or like that then don't let that discourage you, do your own thing if that makes you happy!
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