Sunshine Revival || (Video) Games
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sunshine_revival Challenge Six
Journal Prompt
What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?
I grew up playing board games and card games, and while I still enjoy them, I'm most passionate about video games. I was introduced to them thanks to my older brother. He's 14 years older than me, and I think that definitely influenced our dynamic, growing up it felt like having a second dad sometimes. I'm grateful that rather than exclude me, he included me and my earliest memory is being 4 or 5, watching him play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a tiny portable B&W tv. Looking back at it, the fact he could play the bonus stages in greyscale is insane lmao.
I would sit and watch him play, asking questions about what was happening, how the game worked, and he would answer me. He introduced me to RPGs, JRPGs, platformers, racing games, strategy games, and that variety encouraged me to look into other genres as I got older.
One of my favorite baby Toki memories was when we played Spyro the Dragon. Each time Spyro freed a dragon statue, the controller would vibrate and it was the coolest thing to me. I told him this and he would immediately pass the controller to me so I could experience it each time.
The first time I tried playing an RPG on my own, combat "scared" me, so he would get me to the next town and I would run wild in the shops and talking to NPCs. I inherited his PS1 when he got a PS2 and I was allowed to play games in my room with a hand-me-down tv. But when there were games I wanted to play on the PS2, I was allowed to be in his room and play while he was at work.
I was spoiled happily as a child and I appreciate it, because it makes me want to spoil others and make sure everyone has fun. My wife wasn't allowed to have the same experiences growing up, so playing games together has partially been about reclaiming that. She likes low-stress, low-pressure games but her confidence increased to the point I got her to play Paper Mario & The Thousand Year Old Door while I watched c: I also have fond memories of watching my best friend on our sleepovers play Tales of Symphonia and Fire Emblem 7.
This sort of experience has extended to watching my friend play games over Discord for me, and it's some of my favorite bonding we've done.
As a kid I played Candy Land and Go! Fish so much my family still sighs when I mention the games. I was addicted to Space Pinball. My GBC was glued to my hand when I got Pokemon Silver for my birthday. I made my first lesbian lovers OCs when I played Disgaea. The first fandom I wrote thousands of words for was Tales of the Abyss, showing me video games spark my creativity in a different way from comics or film.
I love the worlds presented to me through their music, their mechanics, the flavor text that haunts me in my dreams.
I love video games.
sunshine_revival Challenge SixJournal Prompt
What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?
I grew up playing board games and card games, and while I still enjoy them, I'm most passionate about video games. I was introduced to them thanks to my older brother. He's 14 years older than me, and I think that definitely influenced our dynamic, growing up it felt like having a second dad sometimes. I'm grateful that rather than exclude me, he included me and my earliest memory is being 4 or 5, watching him play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a tiny portable B&W tv. Looking back at it, the fact he could play the bonus stages in greyscale is insane lmao.
I would sit and watch him play, asking questions about what was happening, how the game worked, and he would answer me. He introduced me to RPGs, JRPGs, platformers, racing games, strategy games, and that variety encouraged me to look into other genres as I got older.
One of my favorite baby Toki memories was when we played Spyro the Dragon. Each time Spyro freed a dragon statue, the controller would vibrate and it was the coolest thing to me. I told him this and he would immediately pass the controller to me so I could experience it each time.
The first time I tried playing an RPG on my own, combat "scared" me, so he would get me to the next town and I would run wild in the shops and talking to NPCs. I inherited his PS1 when he got a PS2 and I was allowed to play games in my room with a hand-me-down tv. But when there were games I wanted to play on the PS2, I was allowed to be in his room and play while he was at work.
I was spoiled happily as a child and I appreciate it, because it makes me want to spoil others and make sure everyone has fun. My wife wasn't allowed to have the same experiences growing up, so playing games together has partially been about reclaiming that. She likes low-stress, low-pressure games but her confidence increased to the point I got her to play Paper Mario & The Thousand Year Old Door while I watched c: I also have fond memories of watching my best friend on our sleepovers play Tales of Symphonia and Fire Emblem 7.
This sort of experience has extended to watching my friend play games over Discord for me, and it's some of my favorite bonding we've done.
As a kid I played Candy Land and Go! Fish so much my family still sighs when I mention the games. I was addicted to Space Pinball. My GBC was glued to my hand when I got Pokemon Silver for my birthday. I made my first lesbian lovers OCs when I played Disgaea. The first fandom I wrote thousands of words for was Tales of the Abyss, showing me video games spark my creativity in a different way from comics or film.
I love the worlds presented to me through their music, their mechanics, the flavor text that haunts me in my dreams.
I love video games.
