Me & Video Games: I LOVE 90s Games

Hello lovelies! I have returned. I almost wasn't going to post today because my back is killing me. Funny story, I think I pulled something in it picking up one of my cats. She's really heavy. I have one cat that is really small and one that is huge (not really fat, just a largely built kitty). Would anyone be interested in a cat lady post?

Anyway, I am posting through the pain (and the folding chair I have to use as a desk chair) because I not only was really excited to share this post with you all, but I have an announcement! I have a small collaboration with a Storenvy shop I love called Worship 13. They make really awesome horror/creepy and Halloween themed jewelry. It's totally my perfect style. You may recall that I featured their Crystal Ball Ring in my February Fashion Lust List post. The store owner has kindly given me a discount code to share with all of you dear readers!! So visit http://worship13.storenvy.com/ and use the code "kawaii13" for 10% off of your order!! I highly recommend checking them out, I honestly love their work so much. You can find this special code any time on the side bar of this blog.

I am not a gigantic gamer but I am a casual one. I've never been able to afford the latest games or systems so I don't get to play a lot of games. I own a Playstation 2 and a Wii. I have a Gameboy Advanced SP somewhere. I have never played on an XBox. I play a lot of Rock Band, when my friends and I get together we love doing karaoke on the game together (We love singing Carry On My Wayward Son, all into the same microphone). My favorite games to play are the adventure console type of games. Like Spyro and Kingdom Hearts.

I grew up playing games on Super Nintendo (also called SNES), Nintendo 64 and the original Playstation. For those of you that have never played on them, these are what the systems look like: 

Super Nintendo

Nintendo 64

OG Sony Playstation

My earliest memory of playing video games was sitting in a spare room at my grandma's house with my aunt playing Paperboy on Super Nintendo. We played a lot of that, Legend of Zelda and Mortal Kobat when I was a little kid. Also some Mario and Donkey Kong. I remember one of my uncles had a really old model Gameboy and he let me play a Sonic game on it all the time. Every time I saw him, I would beg to play the game. Remember when you used to have to blow on the cartridges before you played? I miss that sometimes.

Game cartridge...before games were on discs! 

Then came the Playstation. I don't remember for what occasion, it may have been Christmas but I remember my dad giving me a Playstation and a game - Spyro. I started playing it and fell in love with it. Spyro to this day is still my favorite video game. I still own and play my copy. I have beaten it way too many times to count. But I guess everyone has that one game they love to keep playing, right? I still have my copies of Spyro and Spyro 2. The Playstation at the time was a pretty big deal. The graphics were better than any of its predecessors and games were on discs for the first time, rather than cartridges. Also the memory cards were smaller. Remember memory cards? That was before everything became computerized and we got hard drives built into gaming systems where you can save directly to the system.

For me, nothing beats the first Spyro game.

It's a game about a little purple dragon who is trying to free his people (dragons of course) and save his home. I love games where you collect things, which was common in games in the 90s (at least with the ones I played). There are so many worlds to visit. In Spyro, You collect gems as well as try to free the frozen dragons. It all leads up to the boss level with Gnasty Gnorc.

There were those annoying little blue thieves that you had to chase down to  collect dragon eggs that would chant "na nana na". I was so happy when I could charge/torch those fuckers. The noises all of the enemies make when you defeat them always makes me laugh. I was a little sadistic when killing the enemies.

My favorite world is the Magic Crafters world, which is the 3rd one right after Peace Keepers. It's so fun! 

My favorite realm is in the very first level/world, Artisans. It's called Dark Hollow and is located inside of the little hedge maze. It is the easiest realm in the entire game but I love it. It is really pretty and I love the music. 

I could seriously do walk throughs of this game.

Even though they didn't have the best graphics, the 90s Playstation games are still my favorites. I don't know if it's the nostalgia factor or what but there is something different about them for me compared to more modern games that I just love. For years I have been trying to track down the old games that I loved and played a lot. Sadly, my parents got rid of most of them.

Other than Spyro I loved Crash Bandicoot. 

It also has the collecting element, where you collect wumpa fruit and you go to different worlds. I played this game SO much! I used to always yell "Oooga booga booga" when Aku Aku (the guardian mask character) would pop out. 

You go Crash, collect that wumpa fruit!!

Anyone remember those demo discs that gaming magazines used to put out? I think some of them also game with the console when you first bought it. Where it would have a bunch of different games where you could play a few levels as a preview? I had a bunch of those that I played a lot. I loved playing this game called Medieval on the demo disc.

 I also REALLY loved Jersey Devil. 

I played these little demos all the time. Sadly I never got to own the full game. It was a cute, sort of spooky game. You collected pumpkins. I think it is rather obvious that I would have liked this game. Ahh I was always destined to be Wednesday Addams. 

I went to Blockbuster a lot to rent games and videos. It's so weird how Blockbuster is non existent now. They were everywhere when I was a kid! I was constantly renting videos and games. I always had my local Blockbuster's stock of Sailor Moon videos rented out. Ahh videos. Kids today will never feel that struggle of having to rewind a video before watching it. Or worse, having your VCR eat and ruin the video.

I rented, though sadly never owned a game called Tomba a lot. I did own a demo version of it that I payed a lot too. They really should have just sold me the game, since I rented it so much. 

I used to love jumping on the piggies and the butt flower thingies in this game. It was so much fun! 

I miss these games so much. My life would be made if I could somehow get copies of Crash Bandicoot, Jersey Devil and Tomba again. 

I played so many games in the 90s and early 2000s, I also played, just to name a few: Rugrats, Cool Borders, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, various Disney games, and  Croc. I played a little Tomb Raider too, though I don't have many memories of it.

I'm pretty stuck in the 90s when it comes to video games! I actually didn't get into Kingdom Hearts until last year....let alone any recent games. I would love to check out Assassin's Creed or a zombie game. 

Xoxo

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