Koala Game Diary – March 27, 2008
Posted by koalabears on March 28, 2008
Hey folks! This is the inaugural post of a recurrent feature here at Chewing the Eucalyptus. I’ll be periodically posting the goings on of my gaming life. But first some background: I’ve been an avid gamer since as far back as I can remember.
My very first system was the old classic NES that my parents got me as a gift at much cajoling. I can still remember rolling on the floor shooting ducks and trying to figure out how to use the R.O.B. that came with the game.
After that, my brother and I pooled our (meager) life savings, and with some help from mom and dad, were able to get ourselves a SNES. Man oh man, the hours we spent on that system. I don’t know how many hours I lost to Street Fighter II, A Link to the Past, and Super Mario World
Then next step in the evolution was my very first CD-based game system, the original Playstation which my parents got my brother and I as a present for Christmas. While we were looking to upgrade for awhile, it was only after watching those CG commercials for Final Fantasy VII that made the system a “must buy.”
Then came the great schism of 2001. Flush with my own cash from my summer job as a research intern, I waited in line on launch day to get my very own big black Xbox….and Halo. And thus, I never owned a PS2. Only like 100 million of the things sold, and I never had one myself. But I never regretted it. Halo 1 was full of countless LAN parties, and with the emergence of online play in Halo 2, well I am pretty sure I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 200-300 hours playing that game. Hell, my brother quit his job one summer, spent the next 8 weeks playing Halo 2, and then got a new job with better pay in the fall. Coincidence? I think not.
So now, we are up to the current gen. Of course I have myself an Xbox 360, which is my primary gaming machine. But I also have myself a Nintendo Wii, which basically only plays the new iterations of the same old nintendo games I’ve always played, and BOOM! a PS3, which is more or less a media player at the moment. Gotta love Blu-Ray and the ability to play Divx off of the hard drive. I’ve also got a Nintendo DS for those on-the-go gaming moments. Basically, as I’ve gotten older and had more money, I just bought every system I wanted. Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M.
So now that you know where I come from, be on the lookout for the new details on my gaming adventures…
