[BreakABone]

My story is a bit different since most of my brothers are older than me, I grew up watching people play Nintendo games. But ofcourse in a house full of boys not much lasts, so we went through like 4 NES or something like that, with the final one I was able to actual play the games even though we didn't have much at the time, my NES collection could be broken into two camps, CastleVania and Super Mario Bros, and basically that was the 6 games I own. I guess that's why I have such a love for Mario and still like CastleVania but don't care much for handhelds so I haven't played the last three.

Anyhow, in I think it was 91 or 92 my mother won some mini-golf tourney and her prize was a Super NES with Super Mario World, it was a fun game for what I got to play... later that year my brother left for the Army or something along those lines and took the first SNES with him so it was back to the NES for me. One X-Mas, I forget the year, I got a Genesis. I really enjoyed it and at the time saw no real reason to get a SNES nor did I want one, I mean I had more than enough cool games on my SNES. Then in 96 I think it was, I got my second SNES with Super Mario AllStars and Super Mario World which were fun games, and at the same time got my first PSX. The simple fact is, most all my other brothers enjoy sports games, I don't so when you have a system with nothing but NBA games, you really don't care for it so I guess I just never had any interest in the PSX like that because of all the sports game. So I was content with my SNEs again with games like MegaMan X and Lemmings. At the time, the n64 was also making strides, at the time, I thought it had one of the most unorthodox controls ever. I mean looking at images, it looked like the controller had threee different ways to move the character and I thought that was just weird (In essence, I was right and wrong on that case since several games ultizied a different control configuration.) So I had no interest in the n64 nor Mario 64 or anything else at the time.

In the fall of 97, I begun to hang out with friends more and begun to play WCW vs nWo: World Tour for the n64. I had no idea how to play at the time, but was able to survive and sometimes even win on pure luck, but the game had me hooked so I would play it more and more and bit by bit learned a little bit more about it. Anyhow Christmas 1997, my brother finally paid back for that SNES he "borrowed" some 5 years earlier by sending an n64, he also sent WarGods which was a decent fighter, but nothing too grand, but I also invested in World Tour and was finally able to master the game which was always a weird thing to me. Then Acclaim released WarZone which wasn't a great game, but had some cool features. Then Revenge and so on. So in essence, my n64 became my wrestling game system, but since they aren't released too often, most games I purchased for my n64 were fillers between my wrestling games. I mean some of them were rather cool Mario 64 (even though I still consider it to be one of the lower games in the series), Banjo Kazooie, and some others. Some were decent like Glover and Chameleon twist and some were just bad like Art of Fighting or some crap like that and War Gods.

Then all this hype begun about this "Dolphin" system and I was intrigiued, I guess it was the prospect of knowing about a console from the floor up or something, but I followed it for quite some time until it was officially shown at SpaceWorld 2000. In the meantime, the n64 games were a dying breed so I invested in a DC to bide my time. Boy o boy was it a great system with games like Sonic Adventure, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and ofcourse my favorite RPG, Skies of Arcadia. The DC would rank among one of my favorite system which is only tarnished by not having a true wrestling game (I don't import, even though I have played Fire Pro D for it)

I invested in my Cube a few days after launch. It's the first and probably last system I ever purchase out of the gate. Launch always seems to have some cool games then it dies down for a bit then more games are released. I guess I would prefer to have a nice little backlog of games before investing in the console. As a whole, the Cube has been a fun console, but nothing other than maybe Wind Waker has been truly memorable in my mind.

I guess that's that...