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I'm so tempted to save Mario Galaxy for Christmas. After all, there's Mass Effect and loads of other great games to play (if ever such a feat of abstinence were possible, it has to be now). To be honest this is very unlikely - tearing the wrapping off with my teath combined with an explosion in the boxers is more probable - but it would be great thing to wake up on Christmas day to.
As a kid my memorable gaming moments nearly all coincided with an occasion of some kind. It's how I remember various birthdays. Infact, I scale my whole life alongside big game releases (which is probably terribly sad). I was definately a kid when Super Mario World was released, but for Street Fighter 2, which arrived just a year or so later, I was a teenager and had discovered boobs. University was Golden Eye. Anyways, every 'big' Mario game bar Mario 64 and Sunshine (i.e. before i'd moved out) was a birthday or Christmas present. As hard as it is waiting for much anticipated games to be released these days, it was so much harder knowing they were wrapped up downstairs and not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It was also that much more special when you did get to play, which I miss. These days it tends to be taking a day off work and waiting for console or game X to be delivered. It's not the same playing a new game first thing on a thursday (especially when you're fully grown and should be at work), nor is waiting for the DHL man a patch on waiting for Father Christmas.
I remember opening my Super Nintendo one Christmas morning, but not being allowed to set it up untill after lunch! (after waiting for months and spending a tortuous night not sleeping, my parents had no idea how hard done by I felt). I was about 11 or 12 and spent hours studying every illustration and word in the Super Mario World instruction book (which I still have around - it's the most awesome instruction booklet) untill it was food time. I can remember eating so fast I hurt my throat, having to wait for everyone else to finish (how was that fair, they said not untill I had eaten?!) and finally being allowed to set it up on the tv in the spare room. So, after some hasty fumbling with wires and power supplies, and after sternly telling my extended family that I was not to be disturbed, I was playing SMW in the tiny cupboard room with the door shut. It was awesome.
As a kid my memorable gaming moments nearly all coincided with an occasion of some kind. It's how I remember various birthdays. Infact, I scale my whole life alongside big game releases (which is probably terribly sad). I was definately a kid when Super Mario World was released, but for Street Fighter 2, which arrived just a year or so later, I was a teenager and had discovered boobs. University was Golden Eye. Anyways, every 'big' Mario game bar Mario 64 and Sunshine (i.e. before i'd moved out) was a birthday or Christmas present. As hard as it is waiting for much anticipated games to be released these days, it was so much harder knowing they were wrapped up downstairs and not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It was also that much more special when you did get to play, which I miss. These days it tends to be taking a day off work and waiting for console or game X to be delivered. It's not the same playing a new game first thing on a thursday (especially when you're fully grown and should be at work), nor is waiting for the DHL man a patch on waiting for Father Christmas.
I remember opening my Super Nintendo one Christmas morning, but not being allowed to set it up untill after lunch! (after waiting for months and spending a tortuous night not sleeping, my parents had no idea how hard done by I felt). I was about 11 or 12 and spent hours studying every illustration and word in the Super Mario World instruction book (which I still have around - it's the most awesome instruction booklet) untill it was food time. I can remember eating so fast I hurt my throat, having to wait for everyone else to finish (how was that fair, they said not untill I had eaten?!) and finally being allowed to set it up on the tv in the spare room. So, after some hasty fumbling with wires and power supplies, and after sternly telling my extended family that I was not to be disturbed, I was playing SMW in the tiny cupboard room with the door shut. It was awesome.
