Discovering The World Of Video Gamming And Their Consoles For The FirstTime... Again

Contra... A particularly violent game... Definitely one that boys enjoyed back in the day!

When I was a kid, one of the things that I discovered at a very young age (as a matter of fact, I think I may have been in either 3rd or 4th grade when I first discovered these, but till then I was still so young that I was still mostly playing with toys... That was till I discovered the world of video games!

The way this happened was... Well it was when I was in Elementary School or so... You see, one of the things that the Principle of the School let kids do on Fridays, was get off School a bit early and one of the kids would bring in one of their Video Game Consoles (back then we are talking, Nintendo... Sega Genesis... etc...) And all of us kids got to play...

Well in the end, this gave me the opportunity to dive in to the world of video games at a very young age... And I will say, that video games...  As a kid growing up, gave me loads and loads of fun, I got introduced to some very awesome video games, such as: Final Fantasy (1987), Contra (1987) as well as, Space Harrier 2 (1988), as well as so much more!

A truly classic game, and was one of the ones that I am happy to say helped me to truly enjoy the world of video games when I was a kid!

 Well... I hate to say it, but as time went on, I came to stop playing video games all together... Considering the fact that I developed a website that has to do with reviewing and blogging about video games that this might be a little odd... But it is true!

You see, I happened to be in Colorado with my wife a few years ago visiting the inlaws, and her brother (who fancies himself a bit of a, 'gammer',) introduced me to the world of the, 'XBox 360'... And well to say the least, I was hooked like I was back in the late 80s through the 90s!

Well when my wife and I got home, of course I wanted to get me an XBox 360... Couldn't do so at the time... (At the time, the XBox 360 was still a bit pricey...) The first system though I was able to dive in to was Microsoft's original, 'XBox' video game console, and the few games I was able to get my hands on when I bought the system and games from a friend of mine who was selling his!

The first, 'XBox' video game console that Microsoft released.

 The XBox 360... A video game console that was released by Microsoft, and is one of two of probably the most prolific video game consoles to have come in the 21st century!

In the end, I was able to get my XBox 360... And I have not looked backs since!

Now you might be wondering why I am writing this... Well if you are some one who has any doubt about the value of a kid's first video game system... Well let's put it this way, coming from a gammer of many years... Engaging in activities outside is important for everyone, no matter what age they are, and so... The reason that I write this, is that yes, it is a toy... But you never know... Some day your kids could do what I did, and turn their love of video games in to a worthwhile career!

Space Harrier 2 (1988) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

When I first got in to Video Games, the main system that everyone that I knew, that would play video games on, was on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and well as the late 80s turned in to the early 90s and the technology that made the, 'Nintendo' became old and time to be replaced, they replaced it with the video game system, the, 'Super Nintendo Entertainment System' or, 'SNES'... And that is when things started to get interesting...

What I mean by that is the fact that during this time, Sega would go on to release a system that would not only rival the SNES, but would continue to do so through out most of the 1990s, and that system of course would be the, 'Sega Genesis'!

Now for me, I first got in to this system, like all video game systems that I played at the time, when I played it at a friends house! And you know what? One of the first games that I would go on to play when I was a kid... A game that is still to this day one of my favorite games of all time is, 'Space Harrier 2' (1988)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320"] Space Harrier 2... What can I say... It freakin rocks![/caption]

Originally developed by: Sega-AM2 and published for the Sega Genesis, this video game told of the year 6236, in which our hero, (Harrier), ends up getting a distress signal light years away from his current position, once he gets there, it looks like he is going to have to go on another one man war against an entire army to defeat the forces of evil that have overrun that area!

The truth is, is this game may seem extremely easy, but it isn't, you see essentially you are constantly moving forward killing enemies and dodging objects... And trust me when I say that it may sound easy... But it isn't... The truth is, is it is extremely difficult... But in the end, what does help is the fact that this games controls are pretty easy to get used to!

In the end, this game was the first that I ever played on the Sega Genesis, and in the end, it is still in my top 10 favorite video games of all time, and if you give it a chance I think you guys might like it as well!

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