My story is quite similar. My parents originally bought a NES shortly after it came out for my older brother. I actually started playing it when I was 3. We had lots of games, at least 40. I remmber a few years later, I was probably like 7 I think, well, it was right after SNES came out. I saw it in the store and asked my Mom if I she could buy it. She gave the old excuse: "it's too expensive". But the christmas of that year, I opened up one of my presents and there was my brand new SNES. I ended up with lots of games for SNES too, most of them good, although some were pathetically gay (Michael Jordan In the Windy City, LOL).
In early 1996, my brother gets a PlayStation. I remember watching him play all those cool new games, I just HAD to have one. Christmas that year, I wanted to get my own PSX. My Mom new that since my brother was 15 he wouldn't want to share his PSX with me, so he said she owuld get me one for Christmas.
... what is about to happen next pisses me off so much!... even today I still think about it, and it still makes me mad...
One day I told my brother that Mom was getting me my own PSX for Christmas. However, he said "Why not get an N64?"... and I was like... "well... there are so many cool games on PSX I really really want one." ... he says "Don't worry about it. You can play my PSX, and if you get an N64 that means we'll own two cool new systems. Besides, Mario is your type of thing anyway."
obviosuly I was suckered into his statement, and I then told my Mom I wanted an N64 instead of a PSX. So that Xmas I got my N64 with Super Mario 64.
"You can play my PSX"......... LOL... what a joke.
As you can probably tell, My brother still never let me play his PSX. I was so mad! And every xmas when I had the chance to get a PSX, I got N64 and GB games instead. Argh.... and guess what? on Xmas morning, I didn't even get to be the first one to play my N64, instead my borther goes and hooks it up and starts playing !
What an asshole! Sometimes he would he even play MY N64 without letting me go downstairs and play the PSX.
Well, 5 years later, in April 2001, my brother moves out. Two months before that he also bought a PS2. He let me play it a few times. Also, I played it at school with some friends. Later in the summer, I had happened to go to my friend's house where DarkMaster was also there and he had the FFX demo for PS2. I played the demo, thought it was pretty awesome. Later that year... I was forced to make a decision.... GCN was about to be released and once again I had to choose bwteen Nintendo and Sony, although this time I didn't have some idiot trying to decide for me. So, I ended up choosing the PS2. I got FF:Chronicles and Dragon Warrior VII, and I found Breath Of Fire III at my local EB for 30 bucks and bought that too. In late January, I bought FFX. Three months later I picked up Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Cross. I was so happy that finally I was able to choose the good system that I wanted. Later that year, I got a GCN with Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil, and bought Super Mario Sunshine shortly after.
With all the good games that have come out for PS2, I am glad that I went with the PS2 in 2001 instead of a GCN. Since then, although I still like Nintendo, I can say that I like Sony and PS2 much more. I never took an immediate interest in Xbox, but I do plan on buying one later this year.
The major thing that pissed me off about not being able to get a PSX was the fact that I missed out on so much. RPGs are my favourite games and I missed out on tons of them, which is why I plan on buying quite a few PSX games when I get a job. To think that I could have enjoyed all those games years before really makes me mad, but only my brother is to blame becuase he lied to me. But on the bright side, I was blessed with Ocarina Of Time, which I thought was aboslutely the best game I've ever played, until I played Chrono Cross.
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