“Oh, so if I jump off that bridge I’ll die.”
I remember thinking something like that when I played Mario on the NES. It was probably the first video game I had ever played. I wasn’t any good.
So it’s a good thing that the NES was a home entertainment system that didn’t eat quarters. Otherwise, I’d have been broke. And maybe I would have broken the console after I took out my frustration on it. That console was sure was lucky.
After the NES, I dabbled in classic computer games like Wolfenstein and Doom. Blasting bad guys and bad creatures was a great way to kill time. And I think I was pretty good at them too. But I never fell in love with games at this point. It was probably because there were too many high energy hobbies to occupy me as a kid. Maybe I preferred to play video games with friends too.
I loved and played the hell out of Golden Eye on N64 with everyone I could find. Yet, the game I couldn’t stop playing, because of all its options in single player and multiplayer, was Perfect Dark. I spent so much time playing Perfect Dark with friends that I mastered it. Then, gaming was one of my major hobbies.
I partly expected a new Perfect Dark for GameCube. But I was disappointed when Microsoft bought the game’s developer, Rare. I enjoyed the GameCube for a while, especially Smash Brothers and other games, but I never really fell in love with the system.
I knew Perfect Dark Zero, a sequel to the N64 game, was on Xbox 360. I bought an Xbox 360 thinking that, even if Zero wasn’t as good as the original game, I could still play Halo 3.
I don’t remember a thing about Perfect Dark Zero, but I fell in love with Halo 3. That was partly because I had always loved Halo: I enjoyed playing it at a friend’s house in high school. Probably the highlight of the Xbox 360, for me, was 2007 when I got the Orange Box, Halo 3 and Mass Effect.
After that, I never lost interest in video games again. My love only grew.
Did you ever lose interest in video games? Who or what renewed your interest and why?
Video Games Nebula 
Damn it, the browser crashed and took the comment with it!! Anyhow, that never happened to me. One way or another I always kept playing Console or PC games.
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Ah, that’s an awful way to lose a good comment. It’s always nice to hear about a person’s long-lasting love for a hobby.
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Never lost interest, however I have occasionally lost motivation to start a new one after a long drought.
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Ah, yes I will never lose interest again, but I still lose motivation to start a new game. Sometimes it’s a case of laziness. 🙂
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My love for video games began in the arcade. There was something special about walking up to a game in front of a bunch of strangers and beating a game using only one quarter.
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Yeah, I can imagine that the arcade was once a special place. I feel like the arcade’s popularity was starting to die out by the time I started going to them.
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I’ve never lost my interest thankfully, I have had plenty of friends that have. The Orange Box is still to this day, one of my most favorite things I’ve ever bought.
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Yes, I think almost all of my friends have lost interest that they had from childhood. Most of the passionate life-long lovers of video games that I know are on WordPress.com.
Yes, Orange Box is fantastic.
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I don’t think I’ve ever lost interest in video games. It took awhile before I got into them, but I don’t remember losing interest after that. Sometimes I lose some interest in a game before I finish it, but sometimes I get back to it, other times, I don’t. It all depends on what I feel like.
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Yeah feelings play a big role in what games I play. Feeling lazy or bored can impact how much I play a game.
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