Most of us at some point of our life´s, seated on the couch; while we were watching TV we get to see this commercial about how amazing and fun a videogame console was, showing us the huge amount of action and adventures of every single game it has, in this post I am going to tell you about my vague memory about the first videogame console that my parents bought me. It was the year of 2001, I was at least 3 years old and my older brother was 7 years old, we were both very united at that time and spent a lot of time doing different types of activities, one day while we were watching TV a peculiar commercial appeared on the screen, it was about a the videogame console Nintendo 64, when we saw it we felt a sensation of adrenaline and excitement for the amount of action that those games had like Super Smash Bros, that game was one of my favorites because I never thought I would see Mario fighting Yoshi or Pikachu fighting Donkey Kong. I looked back at my brother and we both stared at each other with a face of “We need it urgently”. We both knew how great it would be you play against each other, so we went directly with our mom, who was cleaning the house and told her about this amazing thing that appeared just moments before, at the beginning she refused as quick as a the flapping of a hummingbird, mainly because buying it would mean the both of us spending all the day in front of the TV playing and eating (and she wasn´t wrong), obviously we resort to our father who was our miracle for that situation and after a long talk trying to convince him we ended in a deal were that gift would count as a birthday present and Christmas present for sboth of us, being the only way they will accept buying us the videogame console. A couple of days later my parents would arrive at my house with what seemed to be a gift for both of us, my brother and I knew what it could be but we just want it to be sure it was, and in fact it was what we expected, the Nintendo 64, I don´t really remember that moment of excitement but I know we were both really
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happy for that gift. Since that day my brother and I would have many funny moments playing it, from both being really excited trying to unlock Ness or the secret stage “The Mushroom Kingdom” in Super Smash Bros to us fighting because the other “Cheated” or won in a “Dirty way” in Mario Party 3. Moments like this are the ones that come to my mind when I see that console at the leaving room of my house and in some occasions my brother and I sit down to play for just one more fight and one more memory that we can share in the future and feel the nostalgia of how old we have become with the pass of the time.
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