Funny story - well it might not be for some. When I first got a PlayStation, the games I was playing were Spyro, Final Fantasy VII and VIII, and MediEvil. My parents are divorced and were also at the time so my sister and I lived with our dad in one house where we would compete over who could finish Final Fantasy VIII first, while my bro lived with our mother and baby brother in another house. Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls; we were playing FFVIII and he was playing Metal Gear Solid and neither party was really that interested in what the other was playing in their spare time, not even when we would come over to visit each other's houses of a weekend
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Full credit for use of the "I'M FREE!" graphic from Rise of the Triad in an article about genre boundaries. That works on SO many levels. Well played.
I also don't like to fall into specialization traps; I'd rather be a B+ at all games than an A+ on just one. For all the years I've invested into the skill, I still feel that my actual videogaming prowess is relatively weak; I largely depend on general gaming prowess (strategy, &c.) and barely get by with my meager physical talent. This probably explains why I can beat Battletoads without codes, warps, or continues, but can't play first-person versus shooters worth a damn. And it definitely explains why I used to be really really good at Street-Fighter-style duelers before they became all about these ridiculously unbalanced combos with ludicrous timing requirements. But I'm okay with that in large part. I'm confident I could destroy the Fatal1ties and Daigos of the world in, say, pinball, or Combat, or Galaga '90. - ZM
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I also don't like to fall into specialization traps; I'd rather be a B+ at all games than an A+ on just one. For all the years I've invested into the skill, I still feel that my actual videogaming prowess is relatively weak; I largely depend on general gaming prowess (strategy, &c.) and barely get by with my meager physical talent. This probably explains why I can beat Battletoads without codes, warps, or continues, but can't play first-person versus shooters worth a damn. And it definitely explains why I used to be really really good at Street-Fighter-style duelers before they became all about these ridiculously unbalanced combos with ludicrous timing requirements. But I'm okay with that in large part. I'm confident I could destroy the Fatal1ties and Daigos of the world in, say, pinball, or Combat, or Galaga '90. - ZM
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