I was born in 1984 (I'm about to turn 36). When I was a little bambino, we were very poor, but I remember I was happy. My mother didn't have a formal job, but she occasionally earned some money by cleaning houses and stuff like that.
I had (have) a cousin who had money. Not rich, but they lived very well. He always had the best and newest toys, and I was always at his place playing with those toys. But I never realized we were poor. At that time (probably when I was 4 or 5), I didn't understand that.
I remember when my cousin got his NES. He got the version with Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt and the orange Zapper. And he also got an extra game: Adventures of Lolo. That was the very first video game I played in my life. It was around 1989.
But in those days, once I started elementary school, I finally started to realize that we were poor. I wanted a NES... It was the thing I wanted the most, and I remember I used to cry because I wanted to go to the house of my cousin and play NES with him. Not crying as a tantrum, but quietly and with a little bit of sadness.
Then, one day, my mother, after working for weeks and weeks and saving every payment she got, she told me that she was going to give me a NES as a gift. We went to TX to get it (I remember it was a local electronics shop in the downtown area). But when we were there, I noticed my mom watching the VHS players and just marvelling at them (she didn't see me observing her). And I lied to my mom. I told her that the NES was kinda boring, and that I didn't want one anymore. I told her that what I really wanted was a VHS player, specially because they opened a VHS rental store just two blocks away from our house, and I wanted to watch tons of movies.
It took a lot of words and explanations to convince her, but I did it. We returned home with a VHS.
And I was NES-less for several more years. I finally got one once the SNES was released!
Do you remember your first console, Era?
I had (have) a cousin who had money. Not rich, but they lived very well. He always had the best and newest toys, and I was always at his place playing with those toys. But I never realized we were poor. At that time (probably when I was 4 or 5), I didn't understand that.
I remember when my cousin got his NES. He got the version with Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt and the orange Zapper. And he also got an extra game: Adventures of Lolo. That was the very first video game I played in my life. It was around 1989.
But in those days, once I started elementary school, I finally started to realize that we were poor. I wanted a NES... It was the thing I wanted the most, and I remember I used to cry because I wanted to go to the house of my cousin and play NES with him. Not crying as a tantrum, but quietly and with a little bit of sadness.
Then, one day, my mother, after working for weeks and weeks and saving every payment she got, she told me that she was going to give me a NES as a gift. We went to TX to get it (I remember it was a local electronics shop in the downtown area). But when we were there, I noticed my mom watching the VHS players and just marvelling at them (she didn't see me observing her). And I lied to my mom. I told her that the NES was kinda boring, and that I didn't want one anymore. I told her that what I really wanted was a VHS player, specially because they opened a VHS rental store just two blocks away from our house, and I wanted to watch tons of movies.
It took a lot of words and explanations to convince her, but I did it. We returned home with a VHS.
And I was NES-less for several more years. I finally got one once the SNES was released!
Do you remember your first console, Era?
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