Castelak
03-14-2004, 04:00 PM
At the age of three, I began my side profession as a gamer. It all started on our PC Junior with which I played some great DOS games. At the age of five my dad bought me a NES with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. The next purchase by my dad was the best of all!
I was to be seven years old in around two weeks. Super Nintendo ads were all over the place and the Software Etc. in the mall was packed with people waiting to play Super Mario World. I remember there was a five minute timer so that others would get a chance to play, but I still never was able to. Being the little six year old I was, constantly brought up the fact that it was my birthday soon and that I would LOVE a SNES to celebrate the occasion. Ok, it was more like "Please please dad I want a SNES so bad!!" but you get the point. All the stores have been sold out for a couple weeks and the systems with Super Mario World were close to 200 dollars! My dad always gave me the excuse of it being "too expensive for your birthday".
Flash forward a week later, we are leaving church and about to go out to lunch. "So dad can I get a SNES?" I asked. "No sorry Chris it's way too expensive." he would reply. Sigh. Guess little Chrissy will have to settle with a (God forbid!) NES game for his birthday...
"Let's go to Toys R Us!" says my dad. I still liked to look at gaming systems there (They were all in the back behind glass displayed like trophies) so I said "Sure!". We walk in and my dad tells me to wait by the door, he comes back in two minutes with one hand behind his back. He then shows me what he was hiding. "Happy Birthday!" he says with a big smile. It was a little slip of paper with some numbers on it. "What is it...?" I say confused. "It's a slip for a SNES deck with Mario!" he exclaims. YEAAAAAH!!! I ran full speed down the asile to the counter where the systems are kept. We got a system and I held it in my arms all the way home. My mom was convinced to let me have it a week early, but it was 8:00 PM and I could only play for a half hour. Every day after that for over a year it seemed I played that system with Super Mario World in it start to finish multiple times, sometimes getting up at 3:30 each morning and playing a good five hours before school started. Anyone and everyone was the envy of my gift, it was good to be the birthday boy! To this day my dad continues to buy me gaming systems/games and goes out to game stores, pawn shops, and goodwills to look for classic games for me. Thanks Dad!
I was to be seven years old in around two weeks. Super Nintendo ads were all over the place and the Software Etc. in the mall was packed with people waiting to play Super Mario World. I remember there was a five minute timer so that others would get a chance to play, but I still never was able to. Being the little six year old I was, constantly brought up the fact that it was my birthday soon and that I would LOVE a SNES to celebrate the occasion. Ok, it was more like "Please please dad I want a SNES so bad!!" but you get the point. All the stores have been sold out for a couple weeks and the systems with Super Mario World were close to 200 dollars! My dad always gave me the excuse of it being "too expensive for your birthday".
Flash forward a week later, we are leaving church and about to go out to lunch. "So dad can I get a SNES?" I asked. "No sorry Chris it's way too expensive." he would reply. Sigh. Guess little Chrissy will have to settle with a (God forbid!) NES game for his birthday...
"Let's go to Toys R Us!" says my dad. I still liked to look at gaming systems there (They were all in the back behind glass displayed like trophies) so I said "Sure!". We walk in and my dad tells me to wait by the door, he comes back in two minutes with one hand behind his back. He then shows me what he was hiding. "Happy Birthday!" he says with a big smile. It was a little slip of paper with some numbers on it. "What is it...?" I say confused. "It's a slip for a SNES deck with Mario!" he exclaims. YEAAAAAH!!! I ran full speed down the asile to the counter where the systems are kept. We got a system and I held it in my arms all the way home. My mom was convinced to let me have it a week early, but it was 8:00 PM and I could only play for a half hour. Every day after that for over a year it seemed I played that system with Super Mario World in it start to finish multiple times, sometimes getting up at 3:30 each morning and playing a good five hours before school started. Anyone and everyone was the envy of my gift, it was good to be the birthday boy! To this day my dad continues to buy me gaming systems/games and goes out to game stores, pawn shops, and goodwills to look for classic games for me. Thanks Dad!