05-15-2014, 01:40 PM
I owe a lot to my video rental store that is attached to our grocery store. It was called Coborns Video Rental, if you've been to MN it is a chain of grocery stores here.
Before them it was Video Update which was a shitty store with crappy selection. But then my brother got a Playstation. Now I've played on other systems before PS, and loved playing video games but it wasn't until I started playing FF9 and Legend of the Dragoon that I really started to love video games.
Actually it was before that, those games were when the bomb went off, what lite the fuse was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time along with the strategy guide. The artwork in that guide was beautiful. I even took it with me to elementary school to look at on break and read through the guide. Who ever said video games never helped with school. Hell reading the text in there and FF and Legend of the Dragoon and other RPG games that used text bubbles to have characters talk was a fantastic way to get a kid to read better else they will never know what the game is about or what the hell is going on.
After that I just played whatever I could get my hands on, and like Hex said it was mostly by the cover of the game that hooked me into buying or renting it. That and whatever was on the back to give the sort of extended tag line of the game.
Before them it was Video Update which was a shitty store with crappy selection. But then my brother got a Playstation. Now I've played on other systems before PS, and loved playing video games but it wasn't until I started playing FF9 and Legend of the Dragoon that I really started to love video games.
Actually it was before that, those games were when the bomb went off, what lite the fuse was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time along with the strategy guide. The artwork in that guide was beautiful. I even took it with me to elementary school to look at on break and read through the guide. Who ever said video games never helped with school. Hell reading the text in there and FF and Legend of the Dragoon and other RPG games that used text bubbles to have characters talk was a fantastic way to get a kid to read better else they will never know what the game is about or what the hell is going on.
After that I just played whatever I could get my hands on, and like Hex said it was mostly by the cover of the game that hooked me into buying or renting it. That and whatever was on the back to give the sort of extended tag line of the game.