I am a GAMER

I've thought long and hard about what my first blog post subject should be. After careful consideration, I think I found my answer. My first post is about how I found my gamer spirit.
I remember, way back in the day, the early 2000's, my neighbour asked my mom to help her paint her lounge area walls. She said that when my mom finished, she'd give her old Windows 95 PC to me as she was getting a new computer. My mom did end up finishing the job and I ended up getting the PC.
Wow, I was about 5 or 6 and I remember my mom and I trying to figure out how to hook up this old monitor and system unit to each other and to the power. We did figure it out eventually and I watched this beautiful computer screen come to life. The 'grrr' sound coming from the internal parts. Even just thinking about it gives me the feels. That PC was the start of EVERYTHING. Space Cadet Pinball and Solitaire was the reasons I put on that PC.

A family friend loaded Dangerous Dave onto that old PC and dang, did I love that game. I never finished it but it was loads of fun. I remember playing the heck out of this game on Saturday afternoons, those were the good old days.

Fast forward a year or two. My mom's friend sold us his old ps1 and a heap load of ps1 games. My gran actually bought me that ps1. My mom twisted her arm to do it because she knew I wanted it the moment he brought it over. But I didn't know anything about console gaming. I was still a newbie and had a long way to go to figure out how the buttons and sticks worked on this strange hand remote. Then came the days of running around endlessly in Lara Croft's home (Tomb Raider 2), skateboarding for hours (Street Skater and Pro Skater), and my personal favourite, fighting my way, alongside my mom, in the underrated Escape... Or Die Trying. I'd have this knack of grabbing my mom's shoulder and shouting, while she was playing, at the thrilling parts and she'd shout then too. This was the proper start I needed to realizing I was a gamer at heart.

Now, in 2007, that was when the real deal went down. December, Christmas school holidays, my gran asks my mom what it is that I have been eyeing in the tech store paper. My mom fetches the paper and asks me what exactly I want from this section, she points at the gaming section and my decision, with no hesitation, was the ps2. I was so excited when my mom called the store to find out if they had stock. I ran up and down the house shouting. We took a taxi to town and collected the console. The first game I chose with it was Jak 3. I didn't even know what I was choosing. Hearing my ps2 switch on for the first time was the best thing ever. I'll never forget that special day.
The second game I got was God of War. My favourite game to this day. My mom and I played together to finish it. I have clocked so many hours on my ps2. My trusty console. I literally feel love inside myself when I look at my ps2. Last year my gran passed away so it adds to the sentimental value of my ps2.

Its 2019 and I still have my ps2, in perfect working order. I got a tattoo done on my chest of the simple triangle-circle-X-square PlayStation key combination, on the left hand side, where my heart is.
I always wanted a ps3 but I watched its life start and end without being able to buy one. I haven't been able to save up to purchase a ps4 but I know that I will one day and hopefully, it'll be before its life comes to an end.

I follow a lot of gaming news and try and keep up with as much as I possibly can, short of playing the actual game. I watch videos, I ask friends what they've played and their experiences. The day I lay my hands on my own ps4 will be a new chapter in my book of being a GAMER.