my "first" console as a kid was one i shared with my younger brother, a nintendo64! we had a small selection of games for but one we always played is diddy kong racing. i keep hoping nintendo will put that out on the switch but i don't think they have just yet. if i'm wrong, i'll sadly shell out whatever the price is for it lmao, but my earliest gaming memories are actually playing games with my dad. both of my parents were avid gamers and regularly had dates where they just got KFC buckets and played sonic the hedgehog on the genesis... i think my earliest memories are playing sonic with them and american mcgee's alice and max payne with my dad on the pc lmao. i still have a really strong fondness for both series actually.

this morning i was actually talking to my friend about yu-gi-oh! the dark side of dimensions movie got me rewatching the anime series when it came out. i still miss it. i'm weirdly hopeful some day they'll do a reboot of the first series; i'm sure that the new stuff has been fine and good but the rose-tinted glasses just don't go away, try as i might lol.

this also isn't a colors viable series but when i was in grade school, i was the kid who would run home to watch xena. my schedule was that i'd run in, put on the television and watch xena, then swap over to toonami for the last half of a dragon ball z episode, followed by tenchi muyo, sailor moon, gundam and outlaw star... truly a golden era for me. i was supposed to do my homework after almost three hours of tv but usually i got on the computer and read fanfic on ff.net 😭