I was lucky to be raised with 2 big sisters that had an NES, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis. We played Mario Brothers, and Sonic the Hedgehog since I was about 3 years old. I say played loosely because I basically put my hands on their hands and tried to figure out how to play by seeing what they did. Later on at my sitter's house, a parents friend and now I consider her my second mom, her sons had a PS1. I played the shit out of that with them, and I would watch them play games, and that developed into me picking up games at the little rental store in Kroger and at a Video Vault. I played titles like Tomba, Klonoa, Spyro, Tekken 1-3, Medieval and other random games. I loved it. I also loved getting those demo discs!

Eventually I found a demo disc with some of my still-favorite games of today on it. I remember it had Silent Hill 4, Burnout 3 Takedown, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shadow of the Colossus and other games that I love that I can't quite remember what they are now. You're probably thinking, that's a damn great collection, and it was. I didn't know what Silent Hill 4 was, and I thought it looked kind of stupid. Funny thing is, Silent Hill is now my favorite game series, and Silent Hill 4 is my favorite game. Burnout 3 is also my favorite driving game with the best soundtrack ever, and SOTC is obviously awesome.

Anyways, that was my experience with how I found my love for videogames.