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The very first videos games I played were from the SEGA Mega Drive and the SNES. My aunt (on my mother's side) had lent my family her SNES and her game Super Mario World 3. Since my elder sister (who is also the eldest of 3) was only less than 10 at the time. Our time with the game was minimal and short as well as the fact we could only get to around halfwa through world 2. That changed (for a time) when we welcomed a Japanese foreign exchange student, he got us through to world 3 before he left.
When the school year started both of my parents where doing long hour jobs and we didn't have a key to the house either. So we had to go to a nearby "daycare" centre untill our mother (who had the shorter hours of the two) could pick us up. At the daycare was a SEGA Mega Drive, one of the games they had Was Sonic The Hedgehog 3. Although I could only get to the 4th level i had a lot of fun with that game since i could play it with a school friend that went to the centre for the same reasons that I had. My Early Gaming life was pretty much this for a time until we move in the later years before the turn of the new millennium.
When we moved into a rural farmstead (the house itself was a rental while the owner himself visited every once in a while); there was a lot less things to do since we were about 30 minutes from the nearest town and about another 30 minutes (1 hour total) from the nearest city. But we had gotten a PC so we could send emails to our friends and family. we had also gotten our very first game, Rayman. And while that game has remain close to us (me and my sisters) we were taking too much time on the computer, since our parents needed to use the PC as well. To that end one Christmas I had gotten my first gaming console the Playstation 1 and with it was the game Crash Bandicoot. This was the first game we had fimished as well as the first game the whole family was enjoying. Soon other games joined the libary from Croc: Legend of the Gobbo's to CTR Crash Team Racing, a game that we still play even to this very day (although it is hard since we now live away from each other).
As time went on my parents realised that it became difficult to drive anywhere with the three of us (the eldest got carsick easily and we would fight amongst each other often). TO combat this we were given Nintendo GameBoys for another Christmas (this time the family on my mothers side were visitiing at the time). While we had all gotten different games the most memorable games we had were the first Poke'mon games (I had Blue version, while my sisters got the Red and Yellow versions). This cause us to be a lot less friction between us and introduced us to handheld gaming consoles.
The follwing games I remeber the most playing during the 1990's are: