ZeroAX wrote:I'm guessing you were one of the 6 kids in the world who owned an SNES but not a Gameboy Xeogred?
Nope! Gameboy was not allowed in my childhood and this is not a joke. My parents ridiculed my gaming habits most of my childhood, though I was lucky enough to have a TV in my room after awhile. But they figured if I ever owned a Gameboy, I would never stop playing games, ever, and that's constantly what I would be doing. There was one Christmas once where my aunt and uncle bought me a Gameboy pocket, and my dad took it away without me even opening it/etc. Definitely one of the dickest moves he's done! I eventually got it, but this was literally years later when it didn't even matter anymore and I can't even remember how I got it, Link's Awakening and Metroid II are the only Gameboy games I've ever owned. When I was older (N64 era probably) there was one point where my dad said, if I could save up an allowance and buy a Gameboy Color or whatever myself, then I could have one. But that was the only exception. I always liked consoles more anyways, so I remember buying Ocarina of Time one summer and probably other stuff instead.
This even went into the GBA time, so I never owned one of those either. My first real official handheld was the DS, which I don't look back on fondly at all. Wasted my money on the PSP too.
It's probably this experience and neck troubles that I've had off and on, that have permanently made me pretty apathetic about handheld gaming. If the DS Castlevania games come to the Wii U VC, then I will probably never touch my DS ever again.
Don't get me wrong though, there's a lot of GB and GBA games I've managed to play over the years via emulation and that I really like a lot, Link's Awakening, the Capcom Zelda's, Megaman V, Megaman Xtreme 1-2, and the GBA had tons of good stuff. But yep.
Bet you weren't expecting that...
So you can imagine I was pretty envious when everyone around me had GB's, were so into the original Pokemon games, and the Game Gear always blew my mind when I saw one. Untouchable things for my childhood.
Fast forward to now and my mom is pretty much a FB addict always on the computer and my dad is obsessed with tablets/phones. And I don't really like smart phones and everyone being a drone to them. Go figure.
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