Well of coarse my first stress relief is this lil cutie...When she wakes up in the morning 90% of the time she is laughing or smiling, what a great way to start a day! Also when I come home from work, and see her smiling face, and she is happy to see me and goes crazy when I walk in the door, there is no way I could be in a bad mood. She is so much fun and so loved, and such a great stress relief!
Growing up I think my gaming started with Atari, we had Pac man of coarse, and even got my Mom playing. She quickly got addicted and eventually flipped the board (a huge feat back in the day) We played games like Space Invaders, Pitfall, Centipede, and Asteroids. The graphics sucked, and once you beat the game it got pretty boring, but it was a good time.
Next came Nintendo, and Super Mario Brothers. As a kid we would play this for hours, and I would go to sleep overs and play all night with my friends. It was a blast to try to figure out secret places to find free guys, trying to perfect getting the unlimited 99 guys on level 3 and warping to higher levels to beat the game and save the Princess. I also loved to play Contra, Donkey Kong, Kung Fu, Sonic the Hedgehog and Knock out.
As an adult we had PlayStation, and played a lot of Hockey and football and racing games, but then one day my Brother in Law Jeff brought over Tony Hawk Pro skater. I was instantly hooked, and went out and bought one as soon as I could. I eventually beat the game, and then waited for the next version was out. By the time Tony Hawk 4 came out, I was able to beat that game in 24 hours. Which really pissed me off. (and Justin) I gave up after that, not wanting to spend the money on something too easy to play.
Then came along Guitar Hero, we went through 3 or 4 of those and beat them all. The fun thing about it was I could play alone or add Justin or Erica, and I liked that after the game was beat, we can go back and try to get better scores on each song, so its still fun and playable.
Now we have Mario. We have had it for 3 weeks and I beat the other night. Justin "accidently" deleted my saved file, so I get start all over again. But I love that a lot of the same secrets from the original are in the newest version, you can get 99 guys, and beating the bad guys at each castle you do the same too. Bonk him 3 times on the head. Its alot of fun. Though playing with someone at the same time is annoying as ever! You can push each other off things and kill them, or eat them and spit them out (when your a dinasaur) its a lot of fun, but crazy at the same time. Erica and I drive Justin nuts when we play on the same team...we yell at each other like crazy!
So I think the games keep my mind off of the stress at work, and paying bills and trying to raise 2 good kids...it takes me away into another world for an hour or more, clears my mind and lets me PLAY:O)
2 comments:
Did you take that picture of Emma? It is fabulous!
I hate video games, probably because my brother always hogged them at our house. My hubby escapes via video game, and when I tease him and call him a nerd, he tells me "It could be worse, I could be an alcoholic." Can't disagree with that logic.
I think that it's great that you enjoy video games with your family!
I didn't grow up with video games AT ALL. My parents never bought one for me, and I don't remember ever asking. It's so weird because pretty much everyone I know plays them and grew up with them. I suck at them mostly, I remember playing Zelda at a friend's house and I couldn't get past the first area because the plants kept killing me. She was laughing her ass off at me the whole time!
I think when our kids get older we'll definitely buy them video games. They can have fun beating mom, or who knows, I might finally get better!
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