How Nintendo affected my life...
By: -=¤ºLil Cheep cheepº¤=-

I grew up in California with my big sister and my mother. My mother had just bought my sister a NES. My 13 year-old sister would play mario games not stop and I would sit there and watch her, untill I picked up the controller for the first time when I was 6 and my sister was 14. I immediatly beat bowser about 5 times in the first 2 weeks of playing Mario Bros. 3 (I never liked Mario 1 and I rarely played Mario Bros. 2 also known as Dream factory: Doki Doki Panic) My sister and I would always play together and I was happy. When I was about 7 (Im not really sure) my sister and I got a SNES, it was a dream come true. My sister was losing intrest in video games at the age of 15 and at the age of 18 she moved to a different city... I was left at the age of 9 to master all of the games she had left behind. None of my friends could beat me on any Nintendo game. I wanted to be like my sister and beat everyone in video games, and so I did.

But then we moved from my house when I was 10 and my mother forgot to pack the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo, so they were just sitting there and I almost died from crying so much, but my mother kept saying, "Dont worry, I will bye you a new one." And that Christmas I got a Sega Genisis. I hated it, in every way possible. One day I was so mad at it I threw it out my window but it did not break because it landed on some soft shrubs and I was grounded for 2 months. Then when I was 11 I heard about the Nintendo 64 and I was so excited, I would go to my neighbors everyday to play with it. Then on my 12th birthday, my mother bought me the N64 and Mario 64 to go with it. It was to good to be true. I loved every minute of it. I beat the whole game and got all 120 stars in about a month.

Then my life started changing, I was learning things from Nintendo games that I didnt think was possible... Example: I was being more like Mario helping people when ever I could, I was being a little like Bowser never giving up, Being like Princess Peach (Shudders) Never losing hope. I felt better about myself, I always thought that Video games made obnoxious, disrespectful, and never doing what you are asked to do. But Nintendo games helped me reach a level in life where I could help others, never give up, and never lose hope. (I feel as if I said that before...) I still play Nintendo games now at the age of 13, and I cant wait till the Nintendo Game Cube comes out... I wonder if I will learn anything from Luigi...