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Scott: Christmas of my fourth grade year, so that was '88, parents finally broke down
and got me and my brother the Nintendo, and that pretty much initiated my life in the
great console cycle. I've never been a great PC gamer, so most of my gaming has been in
console environments. But got the Super Nintendo and at first, like everybody else, just a
lot of "Mario Brothers", "Mario Brothers" and whatever I could borrow from friends.
Gaming had always been kind of a social experience in that as a sort of lower middle class family
of limited means. If I wanted to play games I would borrow them from friends or wait until
the fateful trip to that one store, that one weird store that apparently didn't know what
they were doing and had, like, game rentals for a buck. We had one of those and boy did
we take advantage.
>> Jamie: Yeah, I think everybody had one of those.
Scott: Yeah. And then they went out of business and we were crushed. It was social in that
there was always kind of the lunch room chatter over what everybody was playing and it worked
out well that Super Nintendo, that Nintendo cartridges were the perfect size to slip into
your lunchbox.
>> Rob: As of now, I play mostly World of Warcraft.
>> Ben: OK.
>> Robert: I upgraded to the MMOs. That is a lifesaver in and of itself because I still
have my consoles, and I still have a few games that I play, like mostly party games, social
games. I play Katamari Damacy, Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, stuff that I can
do with my family. Before that, before the MMOs, I was a bad compulsive buyer of games,
like if something new or shiny came out, I was like, I'm going to pay $50 and do that
and buy it and play it and basically forget about it. I have my stacks and stacks of games.
This is my collection, but a lot of them I never finished. It was just something that
I felt like, what was the point? Eventually, I discovered computer games, and that was
something else I could put my time to but not sink all my money into wastefully. I was
never a person to read reviews on the games. Oh, this is something new, I would buy it,
and if the game sucks, I wasted all my money on a game that sucks now.
>> Patrick: Actually at one point, I originally bought an Xbox 360, sold that. Bought a Wii,
sold that. and then I bought a PS3 and PS3 sort of stuck for me. I found games that were
more in tune to what I was looking to do, like Little Big Planet is a wonderful example,
as a platform game. But also just the functionality having a blu‑ray player with my HDTV was
sort of big selling point for me.