My Wii Collection

(in order of when they were purchased)

1. Wii Sports
2. Link's Crossbow Training
3. Super Mario Galaxy
4. New Super Mario Bros Wii
5. Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition
6. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
7. Mario Power Tennis
8. Donkey Kong Country Returns

My Nintendo DS Collection:

(these are in order of when they were purchased)

1. New Super Mario Bros DS
2. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
3. Pokémon Platinum
4. Super Mario 64 DS
5. Ninja Town
6. Soul Bubbles
7. Pokémon Heart Gold
8. Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks [Still waiting to get this but it's been paid for]
9. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

My Life With Video Games Pt 1 - Sega Megadrive

My brother got this Sega Megadrive for Christmas 1992, just under a month before I was born. My parents got it for him so he had something to occupy himself with while they were dealing with me... I wonder if my parents now regret that because that console was where my love for gaming began.

I don't remember playing it when I was really really young but apparently I would try to play it when I was around 1 or so. When I was 3 I was getting damned good at the games we had (particularly Sonic, Aladdin, Toy Story and Columns) and would continue to play these games for a few years until the console was forgotten for a little while once being replaced with a brand new Playstation.

Having rediscovered the console when I was 10 or 11 years old, I couldn't plug it in fast enough. I remember really really cold days in winter of 2004 staying home from school sick and playing games in front of the fire place which I remember as just the best thing ever at the time. When I bought the game Sonic Heroes for the Playstation 2 I thought "This is ok, but I wish I had the original still" - Oh yeah, I have the Megadrive!

Unfortunately the Megadrive I used as a kid didn't work any longer but I had borrowed somebodies Megadrive 2 because I had let them borrow my Playstation (which, incidentally, I never saw again :-() and boom, I was back into retro gaming.

So this is the console that got me into video gaming in the beginning and later on again in '03.