Post by Batman666 on Nov 29, 2010 3:26:26 GMT
Hello!
A Swedish SMS fan/user. Found this great page lately and I felt right at home. Nothing to me is as nostalgic as the Master System.
Here is my background and the reason why i'm so fond of the SMS. The first time that I ever came across a video game had acctually nothing to do with SEGA or the SMS, but is crucial to the story. It was 1988 and a 5 year old me was visiting my cousins family. While playing with my cousins they showed me their new toy, which was the NES 8-bit. To say that I was fascinated by this wonder that was a videogame is an understatement. I'm guessing it was quite obvious to my parents that saw how much I enjoyed playing it that they wanted to make me happy and get one for me aswell.
While at the store to pick one up for me my father had to make a choice and seeing as we were a single income working class family, he went with the video game console that cost less. Which was the SEGA Master System, and boy am I glad he did! Because I would go as far to say that a simple choice like that lay the foundation for my future identity. But more of that a bit later.
Along with the console he bought a game aswell. I think it was his own interest of Japanese culture that made him pick this up and I thank him because I feel privilaged to call Kenseiden my first ever game I owned! As a semi-funny trivia note, we were Jehovah's Wittnesses at the time so it wasn't appropriate to have a violent game with demonic elements but insted of throwing the game away he destroyed the cover and told me not to play it when other people were around.
Back to the identity part. I believe the SMS with the identity of being the alternative choice to the NES and the uniqueness of owning a SMS in a country where Nintendo was king and EVERYBODY had a NES layed the foundation for my own identity of being a minority and going against the choice of the masses. And feeling at ease with that notion, wanting to be unique rather than like everybody else. Some people with more insight to my life might say that this would have come naturally seeing as i'm an ethnic minority in Sweden, but I think and want to attribute the foundation my identity to the choice of SMS rather than the NES.
Fast forward 20 years after I got my SMS. Thru the years i've collected a whole lot of different video game consoles and games and acctually kept everything to this day. Like I said before i've always been fond of the thing that started it all, the SMS. But around this time I got extra nostalgic about it. A psychoanalysis of the situation might have been that around that time I turned 25 and I know I had an age crisis of sorts. This might explain why I returned to the SMS and felt more nostalgic than ever. Maybe wanting to feel the joy of my youth and be like a kid again.
Well this led to me wanting to get more SMS games for my console. I don't know exactly how many games I had collected thru the years until that point, but maybe 25-30. Well I started slowly buying games again thru online auction sites and at the moment i'm up at 92. Unfortunatly i'm also at a point where I don't have much room and have to figure out a way to handle more games. I've put them in a nice alphabetical order at the top of my bookshelves which is a rather nice way to get a quick nostalgia fix by just glancing over and seeing the spine covers.
Favourite game? I can't pick just one, so I will mention a bunch and give a reason why, all of these are picked for nostalgic reasons btw.
Kenseiden = Well an obvious choice seeing as it was the first one.
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars = This is such a wonderful acid trip of a game. Imagine me being around 6-7 and playing this. It blew my mind.
Enduro Racer = If there ever is a game that I feel is a calming nirvana and such a joy to play with an uplifting message of an end screen. Then this is the game. I don't know how many times i've played it thru, maybe over a 100 times. Either way, this game is like therapy or prozac. It just makes me feel good and relaxed. (Imagine my reaction when I realized that the Japanese version of the game was totally different!)
Joe Montana Football = This gets mention not because it was that good of a game, because to be honest it wasn't and I can barely play it today. But it gets mentioned as the reason why I ever learned the rules of American Football and why I still watch each super bowl live in the middle of the night for the past 20 years.
Olympic Gold = My memories of this game were injured fingers, ice for my fingers and broken world records. So I guess it was worth it
Teddy Boy = I can't really give a good motivation why i'm so fond of this game other than it was one of those early games I got and still 22 years later it holds up and is really alot of fun.
Wonderboy III = How can I NOT mention this? I challenge anybody to put this game up against any adventure game for the NES and I know that the NES game won't be better. Zelda included.
So that's my (long) story and connection to the SMS.
A Swedish SMS fan/user. Found this great page lately and I felt right at home. Nothing to me is as nostalgic as the Master System.
Here is my background and the reason why i'm so fond of the SMS. The first time that I ever came across a video game had acctually nothing to do with SEGA or the SMS, but is crucial to the story. It was 1988 and a 5 year old me was visiting my cousins family. While playing with my cousins they showed me their new toy, which was the NES 8-bit. To say that I was fascinated by this wonder that was a videogame is an understatement. I'm guessing it was quite obvious to my parents that saw how much I enjoyed playing it that they wanted to make me happy and get one for me aswell.
While at the store to pick one up for me my father had to make a choice and seeing as we were a single income working class family, he went with the video game console that cost less. Which was the SEGA Master System, and boy am I glad he did! Because I would go as far to say that a simple choice like that lay the foundation for my future identity. But more of that a bit later.
Along with the console he bought a game aswell. I think it was his own interest of Japanese culture that made him pick this up and I thank him because I feel privilaged to call Kenseiden my first ever game I owned! As a semi-funny trivia note, we were Jehovah's Wittnesses at the time so it wasn't appropriate to have a violent game with demonic elements but insted of throwing the game away he destroyed the cover and told me not to play it when other people were around.
Back to the identity part. I believe the SMS with the identity of being the alternative choice to the NES and the uniqueness of owning a SMS in a country where Nintendo was king and EVERYBODY had a NES layed the foundation for my own identity of being a minority and going against the choice of the masses. And feeling at ease with that notion, wanting to be unique rather than like everybody else. Some people with more insight to my life might say that this would have come naturally seeing as i'm an ethnic minority in Sweden, but I think and want to attribute the foundation my identity to the choice of SMS rather than the NES.
Fast forward 20 years after I got my SMS. Thru the years i've collected a whole lot of different video game consoles and games and acctually kept everything to this day. Like I said before i've always been fond of the thing that started it all, the SMS. But around this time I got extra nostalgic about it. A psychoanalysis of the situation might have been that around that time I turned 25 and I know I had an age crisis of sorts. This might explain why I returned to the SMS and felt more nostalgic than ever. Maybe wanting to feel the joy of my youth and be like a kid again.
Well this led to me wanting to get more SMS games for my console. I don't know exactly how many games I had collected thru the years until that point, but maybe 25-30. Well I started slowly buying games again thru online auction sites and at the moment i'm up at 92. Unfortunatly i'm also at a point where I don't have much room and have to figure out a way to handle more games. I've put them in a nice alphabetical order at the top of my bookshelves which is a rather nice way to get a quick nostalgia fix by just glancing over and seeing the spine covers.
Favourite game? I can't pick just one, so I will mention a bunch and give a reason why, all of these are picked for nostalgic reasons btw.
Kenseiden = Well an obvious choice seeing as it was the first one.
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars = This is such a wonderful acid trip of a game. Imagine me being around 6-7 and playing this. It blew my mind.
Enduro Racer = If there ever is a game that I feel is a calming nirvana and such a joy to play with an uplifting message of an end screen. Then this is the game. I don't know how many times i've played it thru, maybe over a 100 times. Either way, this game is like therapy or prozac. It just makes me feel good and relaxed. (Imagine my reaction when I realized that the Japanese version of the game was totally different!)
Joe Montana Football = This gets mention not because it was that good of a game, because to be honest it wasn't and I can barely play it today. But it gets mentioned as the reason why I ever learned the rules of American Football and why I still watch each super bowl live in the middle of the night for the past 20 years.
Olympic Gold = My memories of this game were injured fingers, ice for my fingers and broken world records. So I guess it was worth it
Teddy Boy = I can't really give a good motivation why i'm so fond of this game other than it was one of those early games I got and still 22 years later it holds up and is really alot of fun.
Wonderboy III = How can I NOT mention this? I challenge anybody to put this game up against any adventure game for the NES and I know that the NES game won't be better. Zelda included.
So that's my (long) story and connection to the SMS.
