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What was your first experience 5; Nintendo Entertainment System
Topic Started: Nov 14 2009, 07:11 AM (165 Views)
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My first experience
I first got to play an NES at a couple of friend's houses in 1988. Super Mario / Duck Hunt was pretty much all anybody had back then. Through 1989 I got to play Wizards and Warriors, TMNT, Section Z, Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest, Adventures of Lolo and of course Legend of Zelda and Metroid.

My impression of the games
Since my family had owned and broken several Atari 2600s I thought the graphics and sound of the NES was pretty good. I never found myself pining to play any of them unless that was just what everybody else was doing. The games just didn't 'click' with me or excite me, but I found some of them amusing enough to play for free.

My impression of the overall package
This would have been summer of 1988 and was really a tough call. When it came down to spending my own hard earned money on a game console I really only had one thing in mind. My foster brother had introduced me to Arcades and I knew that I wanted to play those games so badly that I simply couldn't afford to go to the Arcade enough. Since I had seen the Sega Master System in television commercials quite a bit, I had my dad find the only store in town that carried it. The Federated Group of San Antonio was a specialty electronics shop that actually let you play both the Master System and NES right next to one another. Long story short and a couple of hours after arriving at the specialty shop I walked out with a Master System even though I had told my friend before I left that I was buying an NES. Through 1988, the NES had nothing to compete with the SMS when the two were sitting side by side.

The facts that changed my first impression
The fact that I couldn't play anything exactly like Metroid and Zelda on the SMS, even though I had loved playing through Zillion and Golvellius, eventually got me to pick up an NES.

What season and year did I buy the system?
If I recall correctly I had saved up enough money and noticed a dearth of SMS games on the shelves by Spring of 1989. I snagged an NES console, I don't think it had a pack in but it must have, and Zelda 2 Adventures of Link (Which I prefer over all Zelda games to this day). Thanks to Nintendo's price fixing I paid $100 for a $10 console and couldn't afford much else for a while. When I found TMNT, Strider and Ninja Gaiden on discount I snatched them up, a friend gave me Bases Loaded, and I pretty much borrowed friend's games from then on. This was a busy couple of years for me, as I had purchased a Sega Genesis by Christmas and never really looked back, selling my SMS and NES in 1990 for a TG16.
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