What made gaming special to you?

[gamemaster1991]

To me, it was my parents that got me into gaming. They got the first NES as a wedding gift and play SNES with us at an early age. We had a Mario Party night for at lest 2-3 years after my Dad came home from work. My mom played Ocarina of Time and got up to Volvagea (the dragon dude, can't spell his name) before leaving it. Most of my N64 and SNES games were theirs before I took them for myself. Even after my parents stopped playing sometime before they got divorced, me, my brother and my sister played them and had fun. Kirby Super Star with my brother as 2P is the best time I've ever had. Me and my sister would even have death matches on Golden Eye. Slowly, my sister stopped playing games and started taking care of a family of her own, and me and my brother stopped playing games together for some reason. Now a days, I really only play single player games, as I really don't have anyone to play with, but every now and again, my brother-in-law does come over to hang out and makes me play FPS games he has someone to play with. This has made me understand FPS game a little bit more and has made Borderlands one of my favorite games to play. I play games cause they are fun but I also play the old games to remember the old days. I study games so I can make the best game for people to play with family, or a best friend. I want other families to recreate the time where Dad was Yoshi, Mom was Peach, Sis was Luigi, and I was Mario and we were fighting over the star on the other side of the board.

Family is what made gaming special to me, and it is what is guiding my dream to develop my own game.