I think everyone has a story about how they started gaming. Mine has two parts:
(Source: IGN (left); StrategyWiki (right))
This was around the time I stopped gaming. The Zelda screenshot is literally when I quit playing games because I was seven years old and didn’t know how to get out of the palace or where to go next. Super Mario World was and remains more my speed. Tell me where to go, what to do, and I will try to go there and try to do the thing.
30 years later, it was 2020 and most of us were in lockdown. I snatched up a Nintendo Switch minutes before lots of other people tried to do the same. It’s been a trip ever since.
Right now I have playthroughs on a couple of different games and too many thoughts on them, so this is a journal of random thoughts as I play through them.
The haunted doll shrine in a corner of my ACNH island.