Gaming Consoles

Here are all the gaming consoles that I have (or used to own).

PC Computer

Year: 1998/99

When I was young, my mom gave me my first coumpter, a desktop that is in the Computer Room that we have at my old home. I only things that I recall doing on that computer was draw on Paint, browse on the Nick and Cartoon Network websites, play Solitaire that came with the desktop and the various CD-ROM games that my mom got me. As you expect, most of them were educational games that taught me how to read and solve math problems. I remember playing all the Arthur Living Book series and it wasn't until decade later that I found out that they're technically a visual novel (well kinetic novels are the correct term as there is no interactivity involved)!

Then when I was 9 years old, my parents gave me some Nancy Drew CD-ROM games for Christmas since I like reading the books when I was in elementary school. I don't know for some reason, I could never beat them due to finding the game a bit...creppy in my eyes. And plus the ways you can "die" in the game cause my anxiety to rise up. Even when I tried to play one of the games on Stream in late 2022, I still couldn't beat it due to the uncanniness of the game. I don't know, I rather stick it to the books instead.

Then when I was 14 years old, I was given the Sims 3 for Christmas. At that point, I ditched the ancient desktop for a new laptop that I got for my 13th birthday (which since died). I remember loving the Sims 3, even thought I can't play it anymore due to misplacing the base disk that also has the installation code. Then almost 10 years later, I finally got the Sims 4, which was for free to celebrate 5 years since the game came out. I have more detail about my histroy with the Sims 3 and Sims 4 on the Sims Interest page, which I will put a link to here.

Games I played:

Living Books series: Arthur's Teacher Trouble, Arthur's Birthday, Arthur's Reading Race, Arthur's Computer Adventure, D.W. the Picky Eater & Stellauna
Barbie series: Barbie and Her Magical House, Barbie Fashion Designer & Barbie Storymaker
Nancy Drew series: Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon, Secrets Can Kill, Stay Tuned for Danger & The Secret of Shadow Ranch
EA: The Sims 3 & The Sims 4
SpongeBob SquarePants series: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Employee of the Month, Nighty Nightmare & Operation Krabby Patty
Mircosoft: Microsoft Solitaire, Minesweeper, 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet & Purble Place
Blue's Treasure Hunt*
Fisher Price Dream Dollhouse
Rugrats Adventure Game
Kid Pix
Disney's Magic Artist Studio
The Oregan Trail*

PlayStation 1

Year: 2000

I don't remember when we got the PlayStation 1, but I remember when I was 5 years old, the first game I played was the original Tomb Raider. I also remember that I couldn't get past the swimming tutorial because I was 5 years old and didn't know any the controller buttons! Sigh....

Other games I played was Crash Bash, Sony's version of Mario Party, the second Spyro game and SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge. Like with Tomb Raider, I never beat those games. And I can't now because mom later sold the PlayStation 1 and the games to someone when we moved to Germany in 2009. Oh well, at least I can emulate them on the laptop, which will be the closest thing to owning them. Maybe one day I'll beat a PlayStation 1 game...

Games I played:

Crash Bash
SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge
Spryo the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage
Tomb Raider

Game Boy Color

Year: 2001

When I was 6 years old, my older cousin and her parents gifted me a Game Boy Color and Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! game cartage as a departing gift before they moved to Hawaii. It has Atomic Purple console, which is one of the seethrough console that everyone is now nostalgia for. But dumb me later sold it on eBay in 2015 for $50! Sigh....

As for the games, I played mainly games from cartoons series. Hamtaro was one of them of those, where for some reason, I could never beat them as I was always stuck and could never progress! (Please note: this was before I discover that there is walkthroughs that could solve this and plus I was like, 6 at the time). I later remember my cousin could beat it the game, so I delete the save file to do it myself, but I couldn't. So, I gave up and never played it ever again.

Then a few years after selling the Game Boy Color, I was watching a ProtonJon stream on Twitch (the same man who will one day, finish his Superman 64 LP on YouTube ((like no harm, just take your time on the videos))), and he was playing that same Hamtaro game that I could never beat as a child, for game clearing. But then the moment he did something in the game that I never bother even doing before, I all the sudden want to beat my then 7 years old self for not pressing the A button the second time when you have the option to talk to the shadow in Acorn Shrine! Welp, at least now I know how to beat the game proper this time. Two years later, I played the game on the emluator and used a walkthough this time around and I actually beat the game for once!

Thankfully, there is one game I managed to beat on the GameBoy Color: Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, a bad video game adaption of the movie. The game was actually hard and I got a game over, mulitple times! Also, this was before I was aware of walkthoughts on the Internet. I rememeber being so proud because I think this was the first game I have ever beaten!

But since I start emulating games, I'll start thinking about playing some of the games that I either never had or never beat them as a child.

Games I played:

Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! (before I sold the cartage)
Tweety's High-Flying Adventure*
The Powerpuff Girls: Paint the Townsville Green

PlayStation 2

Year: 2003/04

I don't rememeber how I received the PlayStation 2. It was either a birthday gift, Christmas gift or a random gift that daddy got for me and my niece. Despite that, I rememeber playing on the PlayStation 2, a lot. Me and my niece played mostly games from cartoons series. Mainly SpongeBob SquarePants games. One of those game is Battle of Bikini Bottom, one of the most popular game from my time. I rememeber being bad at the game as while I did most of the levels, I could never beat the bosses because I was 7/8 years old and I sucked in being patient. Because of this, me and my niece was on and off with the game and 8 years later, we finally beat the final boss!

Beside Battle of Bikini Bottom, I rememeber playing another SpongeBob game Lights, Camera, Pants with my daddy and beating the game. I also played Nicktoons Unite game, Globs of Doom, which was very dull compared to the first game, but me and my niece managed to beat the game easily as you can keep fighting the boss whenever you die. The last game I recall playing was Scooby Doo!: Night of 100 Frights. Like with the Nancy Drew games, I could never beat the game due to finding the game creppy, which increase my anxiety!

To this day, I still have the PlayStation 2, but I doesn't think it work anymore because it's been in storage in the garage, baking in the Texas heat. For now, it's on a shelf in my closet, hoping for it to be played one day.

Games I played:

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle of Bikini Bottom
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom
SpongeBob SqaurePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!
Scooby-Doo!: Night of 100 Frights
Astro Boy
Crash Nitro Kart
The Mis-Edventures

Game Boy Advance SP

Year: 2004

Like with the PlayStation 2, I don't remember how I recieved it, but I guess I got this on my 8th birthday. It was the red console. I remember playing a couple games, mostly games from cartoons once more. I played two more Hamtaro games: Ham-Ham Games and Rainbow Recuse!. While I could never beat Ham-Ham Games as it's based of the Olympic Games, I did beat Rainbow Recuse, even thought I was stuck on the game for the longest time! Once I realized that you can use walnuts to skip the some of minigames, I start to advance in the game. And fun fact, Rainbow Recuse was never release for the States! Turns out my mom got a bootleg copy from Ebay and for some reason, my SP would allow it to run! I still have the cartiage to this day as it's standing on my bedroom dresser.

As for the other games I played, I played Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals, where you have to plan a party, find the things you need to plan your party and make sure you have a high approval rating at the end of the party in order to advance to the next area. I also played Nicktoons Unite, where you have four characters from various Nicktoon series, come together and save their worlds from the Big Bads of the game. I rememeber beating the game at least three times, one on easy, medium and on hard! A third game I play and beat was Teen Titans. My daddy was a big fan of the series (the original and not the 2013 version that most of everyone on the Internet hate) and gave me the game. I rememeber hating the part at the end of the game where you have to escape on a time limit.

Then in 2006, I stupidly left mine and my niece's Game Boy Advance SP and a shoe box full of game cartiages outside of our hotel room and someone actually STOLE THEM! I rememeber mom have to replace them and use Ebay to do so. So my replacement SP was in pink, my favorite color! Unforuntaly, I don't know what happen to it now and if I find it, it's probably dead as it was too, baked in the Texas heat in a box in our garage as we have no time and enegry to clean out the it out.

Games I played:

Nicktoons Unite!*
Barbie: Groovy Games*
Secert Agent Barbie: Royal Jewels Mission*
Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Games
Hamtaro: Rainbow Recuse!*
Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals*
Super Mario Advance
Teen Titans*
Sherk 2
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie

Nintendo DS Lite

Year: 2005

This one I remember getting as a early Christmas gift in 2005 from my mom. It was a Nintendo DS Lite and it was pink, which once again was my favorite color. One of the first game I played was Catz, where you can adpot a cat, buy clothes, food, toys and play with it. I rememeber staying up all night playing the game and me and mom was suppost to go to have lunch at restruant with one of her co-workers. We didn't as I had a meltdown the next morning over staying up too late, which made my mom angry, so we didn't go! Oh well...

One of the things about the Nintendo DS Lite is that you can play Game Boy Advance games and because of it, I replaced my SP as the DS was the main way to play Game Boy Advance SP. Then one year later, my niece borrowed my DS to play with at night, got frusated at the game she was playing and threw it across the room, breaking the console! I was so mad! Thankfully, my parents got me a replacement DS Lite for Christmas and it was the same color, like before.

Another DS game I played ws Animal Crossing: Wild World, which my older cousin gave me as a gift to help me cope with daddy's death in November 2007. Details of that is in my Animal Crossing Interest page. I also played one of the two Guitar Hero spinoff games on the DS, where it comes with a special cartage that has the cord buttons on it. It was one of the game, Decades, that cause me to completely fall in love with classic rock as it reminded me of my late daddy and his love for the genre. And this was the first Guitar Hero, where I actually beat the game on hard since it has 4 buttons, instead of the normal 5 buttons if you play on the hard/expert mode on the main consoles!

The last noticable DS game I played was Legend of Zelda: Spirt Tracks. I got as a Christmas gift in 2009 and it came with a hardcover book walkthough from Prima Games. I remember only getting the second dungeon before giving up. It took almost 9 years later to try it again and this time I managed to beat the game, even thought I was close to dying on the final boss, which everyone on the Internet complained it was too easy! Not me thought, it was actually hard because of my bad timing skills!

In Chritmas 2008, my mom gift me a blue Nintendo DSi, where you can actually connect to the Internet, something that the DS Lite did not do. I don't know what happened to it as its' lost in a box that is baked in the Texas heat in the garage (it's a running theme at this point, isn't it?). Same thing with my pink DS Lite as the last time I touch it, it won't turn on! It's not even charging it, with means it's dead. Oh well, at least my 3DS is still in good condiction after almost 10 years of usuage.

Games I played:

Catz
Animal Crossing: Wild World*
Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades/Tour*
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks*
Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses*
The Sims 3

Wii

Year: 2007

A few months after daddy passed away, me and my niece recieve a Wii from him and mom for Christmas. It was when Nintendo introduce the Miis that you can use to create your own characters and such. I remember going to the Mii Channel to make Miis for me, my niece and my mom, even thought she doesn't play the Wii like us. I liked used the Wii channels on the system and rememeber using to browse the Weather and the News channel. I also loved browsing the Wii Shop Channel as I was bopping to the soundtrack that played in the background. I didn't buy anything in that channel, but I would enjoy the music there.

One of the first games that me and my played was Wii Play and Wii Sports, using our Miis. I'm was pretty good in Find Mii, Pose Mii, Fishing and Shooting Range. As for Wii Sports, I was only good in Bowling. I was okay in Golf, but I sucked in Baseball and Tennis. Don't get me started on Boxing either as I was terrible in beating on of the hardest opponent (you know what I'm talking about).

Other games I played include Mario Kart Wii, that came with the steering wheel, which I still have to this day. I also played Super Mario Galaxy where while I would be the levels in the main worlds, my niece used to go beat the boss because I have the lack of patience, compared to her. I played Animal Crossing: City Folk, which I mention in my Animal Crossing Interest page (already linked it here before, so look at the DS Lite section). I played Super Paper Mario, my first Mario RPG game even thought it's technically an Action RPG at that point. Even thought I liked the game, I could never beat it as I end up having barely healing items when I go beat the final boss and it wasn't until almost 10 years later that I finally did! And despite it looking colorful, the game actually got dark as the end of the world was brought up and it almost killed everyone one!

Wii Side View with Hello Kitty on a Telephone Sticker

To this day, I still have the Wii with me in my closet. I don't use it as much anymore since the WiiU replaced it as it can play Wii games. But the Wii can play GameCube games, something I didn't own growing up and wished I had one. But the problem is the GameCube disks are like, over $100 to find a used copy of the game and it's still in good condition!!!

Games I played:

Wii Play*
Super Mario Galaxy
Wii Sports
Mario Kart Wii*
Guitar Hero World Tour*
Super Paper Mario*
Wii Party
Animal Crossing: City Folk*
Mario Party 8*
Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess
DanceDanceRevolution: Hottest Party
Wii Fit
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock*

iOS

Year: 2012

Yes, yes, I know. Mobile games doesn't "count" as some of them are free-to-play, where you have to play actaul money in order to progress in a leave or so. But when the iPhone first came out back in 2007 this was a big deal as now you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars on consoles, just to play one game. I didn't get an iPhone until 2012 as my mom got an upgrade version and just give me her old iPhone 4. There, that's where I started playing mostly free-to-play games, just like non-gaming people do. For the type of gerne I played is mostly life simluation and puzzles.

Some of the games I played on the iPhone included Plants vs. Zombies. I first played it on the iPad with my niece before I played it on my iPhone. It's a alright game, even thought one of the later levels were actaully hard. Despite that, it became the first mobile game that I beat! I later tried to play the sequel game, Plants vs. Zombies 2 when it came out a year later, but I didn't like it as it shoved ads to buy upgrades to progess, so I deleted the app.

Beside Plants vs. Zombies, I played other puzzles games such as Bejewled, Dots, Block! Hexa Puzzles and Candy Crush. As for the life simluation games, I played The Sims FreePlay, Virtual Families 2, SimCiy: BuildIt and Neko Atsume. I played one stragey game, Plague Inc and it became the second moblie game I beat. Then in 2016, I download Pokemon Go when it first came out. I wrote my experience about it on the Pokemon Interest Page.

A year later, I download Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp when it first game out. This was 3 years before New Horizons came out on the Switch and some quit New Leaf after it being out for 4 years at that point. It also became my first gacha game, when they added the fortune cookies, where you have to pay real money to get Leaf Tickets to buy the cookies. Inside of the cookies, you either get the cute furnitures, clothes or accessories. And there's a chance you can get a duplicate if you buy another cookie. You see why some quit the game because of this.

As of right now, the only mobile games I played was Pokemon Go, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and as of recently, Candy Crush the game every Facebook wives have played once before in the 2010s. The rest I abandoned due to getting bored or was begging me to give them money whenever I get stuck on a level. Of course, I still play console games, but sometimes, it's easier to play games on the phone you got and for some of them, it's free.

Games I played:

Plants vs. Zombies*
The Sims FreePlay
Virtual Families 2 Dream House
Bejewled Blitz
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Bejewled Classic
Dots: A Game About Connecting
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Solitaire
2048
Plague Inc.*
SimCiy: BuildIt
Neko Atsume: Kity Collector
Block! Hexa Puzzle
Pokemon Go
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Candy Crush

Nintendo 3DS

Year: 2013

I receive a pink Nintendo 3DS for Christmas and a copy of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Like the other two Animal Crossing games, I explained my expereince with the game on the Animal Crossing Intrest Page. Like the DSi, you can connect it to the Internet, but it's an improvement over the DSi. I rememeber browsing the eShop and wasting my time on StreetPass Mii Plaza, where people's Miis come to visit on your plaza. You can also play minigames with them too. As of right now, I have over 1100 visitors in my plaza!

Other games I played on the 3DS include, Pokemon Y, my first Pokemon game, which I explained on my Pokemon Interest Page, along with Pokemon Moon. I played the 3D remasted of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. While I remember watching a LP of the original Majora's Mask for the Nintedo 64, the 3DS version was actually harder for the bosses as you need to look for the eye to slash it. And it's on a time limit as you have until the end of Day 3 to save Termina before the moon crashes down. My anxiety hated me for that! At least I have a better expereince with Ocarian of Time, even thought I perfer Majora's Mask, any day. I also played Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, which I could never beat the first boss of the game. I will one day...

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS became my first digital game that I bought and downloaded in 2014. I later download and played the Ace Attoney Trilogy in 2015, which was my first visual novel that I played, which I explained in my Visual Novel Interest page. But for some reason, even thought I saw a LP of all 3 games, I never beat them until in 2018! I blame university for this!

Right around Christmas in 2017, I bought and download Tomidachi Life, a game where you can make Miis and have them live on an island. You can decerate their apartment, give them gifts, hook up one of their neighbors where they can get married and have kids. I played the game for 2 years before abandoning them. Like most Tomidachi fans, I wished the game would come out on the Switch. But the fact it's been (as of right now) 7 years since the Switch came out and with rumors of Switch 2 being release late 2024, the sequel of Tomidachi Life is never going to happen...

As of right now, the 3DS is still in good condition and after attending San Japan, an anime convention on Labor Day weekend in 2023, people are still using the 3DS for StreetPass! I also use it to play DS games (beside Guitar Hero Tour/Decade where you need to have a cartage slot for it to work. And the 3DS doesn't have one). Since Nintendo decide to shutdown the eShop in March 2023, I was thinking about hacking it, but they release an update for the system, to keep it from happening and I'm worried that I'm going to accidently break my console by accident if I download the update and hack the system!

Update (10/4/23): Just a few weeks after writing this, Nintendo has announced that they're shutting down the online system for the 3DS and the WiiU in April 2024. I don't know how to feel about this as I didn't use the online features that much. But the same time, I feel bad for those who have and now Nintendo has completely abandoned two more gaming systems.

Games I played:

Animal Crossing: New Leaf*
Pokemon Y*
Pokemon Moon*
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS*
Ace Attorney Trilogy*
Tomidachi Life*
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D*
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D*
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer*
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
Pokemon Crystal (VC)*

WiiU

Year: 2014

On my first Christmas back from university, I was given a WiiU for Christmas, which came with a copy of Mario Kart 8. I remember beating that game in days! Afterwords, I never touch the WiiU ever again...well until fall of 2015, where I decide I'll be taking it to university with me and not the Wii, which was showing age at the point. Even then, I didn't play it that much because of school.

But do rememeber my mom giving me a copy of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, that new open-world Zelda game that was a launch title for the Switch. Funny thing about that, I only made it to the tutoral area before stopping because archiecture majors aren't allow to have free time! One year later after swtiching schools and changing majors (long story), I finally picked up the game again and actually beat it this time! And the entire time, I was kicking myself on why would I abandon the game in the first place!

Another WiiU game I played include Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, a remaster of the GameCube game that everyone trashed it when they first saw photos of it when the game was announced back in the early 2000s'! Thankfully, people who grew up with the game was kinder and say that this was the best Zelda game they played, which I agreed with them. But one strange thing about the game that it make me motion sick as after sailing the sea for period of time, I feel like I was on an actual boat! Ooof, at least I managed to beat the game and not throw up afterwards.

Other WiiU games I played is Hyrule Warriors, which was my first Warrior game I played and it took me a few days to beat. Other than that, I have little to no memory of that game. I also played and beat Super Mario 3D World after abandoning the game a few years back. I played the original Splatoon, played online and ditched the game after failing to beat the third boss in single mode.

I played two virtual console for the WiiU, the first one was Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. At that point, I watched the LP of the game, 4 times (two which came from the same person) and was ready to play the game myself. I think it took me a few weeks to beat the game. One of my proudest moment in the game was I successfully timed Geno's Beam Cannon, which manage to hit Exor with 9,999HP and beat the boss! The second virtual console game I played was Earthbound. It was another game I saw multiple LPs of, but never played it myself. I did and it took me a bit as I was having bad luck in the final area as Ness got homesick right before beating the final boss of the game!

Like with the 3DS, Nintendo has too shut the eShop, so now the only way to play new games is by hacking it or buying a new game in person. And some of the used game cost over $100, yikes! Like before, I want to hack the WiiU, but I'm worried that I might break it as I have for almost 9 years and I also use it to play Wii games too.

Update (10/4/23): Just a few weeks after writing this, Nintendo has announced that they're shutting down the online system for the 3DS and the WiiU in April 2024. Just like I said for the 3DS, I have mixed feelings about this as I didn't use the online features that much. But the same time, I feel bad for those who have, like the Splatoon 1 players, who can finally play online matches again after being shutdown for months to fix a security flaw. But now, the game is going to be 100% dead come April 2024. But I hear there's an open source replacement for Nintendo's servers that a group, Pretendo Network is making as we speak.

Games I played:

Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD*
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
Hyrule Warriors*
Mario Kart 8*
Super Mario 3D World*
Splatoon
Mario Party 2 (VC)
Earthbound (VC)*
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (VC)*

Steam

Year: 2017

Prior to late 2016, I never heard of Steam before. When I did, I found out it's where a store where you can buy games on the PC. One of the first game I bought was Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, a visual novel that became my special interest for a while as I mention it on my visual novel page. Later on, I bought the two sequels on the series and managed to beat all three of them in the span of 3 years.

Other games I bought on the Steam include Bayonetta, one of my first action-adventure game I have ever beat. Okami HD, which for some reason, only saw a LP for the sequel. Of course, I heard everyone perfer the first game better than the second one and I agree with them. I also played SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated, a remaster of the original game that I played as a young child. And for some reason...this game was easier to beat than when I orginally played the game. To the point that after the final boss I was like, "That's It?" I think that I got better playing video game and gaining patience helped. Oh, and adding a check point in the second half of the final boss in the remake, help as I remember it not being too kind if you got a game over.

As for genre, I mostly played simulators. Games such as House Flipper, Cities: Skyline, Cooking Simulator, Civ VI, Hypnospace Outlaw & Stardew Valley. And 3 out of four of them is where I have most game play hours clocked in. I also played visual novel games too. As I mention before, I played the Dangaronpa series, Monster Prom and BAD END THEATER. I got other visual novel games to boot that I haven't touch...yet. I also have plenty Metroidvania games I haven't touched yet. And more action-adventure games, simulators, RPG games I haven't touch....yeah my backloggery list is UGLY as I have oever 100 unbeaten Steam games! Maybe one day I'll do something about by sitting down and beating them, one by one.

Games I played:

Danganronpa Series*
Bayonetta*
House Flipper*
Okami HD*
Stardew Valley*
Cooking Simulator
Trombone Champ*^
Sid Meier's Civilization VI*
HuniePop*
Hypnospace Outlaw*^
Monster Prom*
Cities: Skylines
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated*
BAD END THEATER*^
DuckTales Remastered*
Portal*
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
The Stanley Parable*
Luck be a Landlord
McPixel 3*
Unpacking*^

Nintendo Switch

Year: 2018

Switch with Pikachu and Eevee Colors on the Side Controller

My mom gave me the Nintendo Switch as an early Christmas gift in 2018 and one of the first games I played was Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!, that I mention in my Pokemon Interest Page. Other games I played include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Yes, I already played the game for the WiiU, but I bought the Switch version too. The difference between my WiiU file and my Switch file is that I actually beat all the shrines in the game as it was the motion control shirine in the WiiU version, sucked and that what stopped me from completing all of them. I also played the highly rated sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, as I spend over 100 hours in the game before finally beating it! I haven't touch the game since, but I hope one day I will.

But Tears of the Kingdom isn't one of my longest playtime game on the Switch. That would go to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which I clocked over 700 hours of the game before abandoning it. I mention my history with it on my Animal Crossing Interest page and how it was the first Animal Crossing game, where I actually 100% completed my musuem! My second longest playtime game on the Switch was Fire Emblem: Three Houses. It was my first Fire Emblem game and I picked the Blue Lions as my first house because many guides said if this your first Fire Emblem game, then their house is the easiest to play as most of the students are physical fighers, which will make the first half of the game easy. After finishing their path, I played the other three paths and I did that in the span of 6 months. I did this because I didn't want to have burnout and I made a rule to myself that after beating a path, I have a 2 week cool down before starting a new house. That worked and because of it, Three Houses are easily my top game of the year.

Other games I played on the Switch include Stardew Valley, which I played for over 100 hours and later got the game for the Steam and I played that game for over 70 hours before beating the main story. I played Super Mario 3D All-Stars when the cartridge was out for a limited time and got it on sale for $37! I played only the remaster version of Super Mario Galaxy, as I never fully beat the game as a kid and it was the better port than the other two games. I played the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which I liked the art style of the game and saw a LP of the game on Twitch before picking it myself. I tried to play Final Fantasy VIII Remastered as my first Final Fantasy game, but I hit a wall when trying to beat the opening boss of CD 4 and couldn't make progress. So, I'm thinking about reset the game, but I have the lack of motivation to do so. Maybe one day I will.

One thing about the Switch that no Nintendo game console has done before was to have an online subscription. People didn't like that as Nintendo used to be one of the big consoles where you can play online for free (now only Steam can do that). But unlike Xbox and PlayStation, Nintendo's online subscription is actually....cheaper. For $20 a year, you can access the NES, SNES and the Game Boy Color app, where you can play their older game and save state them. Of course, there's the $50 version, where it comes with the Nintendo 64 and the Game Boy Advance, but I'm too broke to even bother with it. And plus, I'll emluate them since they don't have all the games I wanted to play on them.

Even after moving to another continent and back, my Switch is still as new as it was the day I got it. I make sure to put screen protector on it as I'm a clumsy person and tend to drop thing easily. I'll still play the Switch, even when the rumored Switch 2 comes out ~~late 2024~~ early 2025 and that there's rumors that you can play Switch games on it too. Until I get a job or an income that will allow to buy expensive things again, I'll going to stick with the Switch. And also try to clean its backloggerly too (Persona 5: Royal glares at me in my closet, waiting to be played...)

Games I played:

Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!*
Stardew Valley*
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening*
Animal Crossing: New Horizons*
Super Mario 3D All-Stars (only beat Super Mario Galxay)
Super Mario Odyssey*
Fire Emblem: Three Houses*
Katamari Damacy REROLL*
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Kirby and the Forgotten Land*
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom*
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Super Mario RPG (Remake Version)*
Suika Game*
TETRIS 99
Game Boy- Nintendo Switch Online

Kirby Dream Land*
Tetris

Nintendo Entertainment System- Nintendo Switch Online

Legend of Zelda*
River City Ransom
Donkey Kong*
Dr. Mario
Super Mario Bros.*
Kirby's Dream Land*

Super Nintendo Entertainment System- Nintendo Switch Online

Kirby's Dream Land 3*^
Yoshi's Island*
Star Fox
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past*
Super Metriod*
Super Mario Kart
Donkey Kong Country*
Super Mario World*
Super Puyo Puyo 2
Mario's Super Picross*

Emulation

Year: 2021

This was the year where I decided that I want to play classic games, but don't want to shead over $100 for the cartage and that there's a chance it might be a fake or worst: IT DOESN'T WORK AT ALL!! And not having the console to play on said classic game, doesn't help either as prices for some of the consoles, like the GameCube, is over $200! Which like I said before, there's the chance of the console not either work or it's a bootleg. So at the end, I decided it was not worth it and emulate the games that I want instead.

I mostly emluate Nintendo games from the consoles such as the NES up to the GameCube era to the handheld games such as the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advence. I have emluate games from Sega Saturn, PlayStation 1 & 2. As for the system I used the emulation, I used RetroArch, a one stop app that is a free and open-source that I use on my laptop. It basically have every emulation software that the consoles have, such as Dolphin, that is used for GameCube and Wii games and mGBA, that is used for Game Boy Advance games.

I have one grip with emulating old games that sometimes, the CPU on my laptop, gets overheated if I end up playing a 3D game, like the Nintendo 64 and I even put it on windowed mood to keep my laptop from crashing! This makes me worried since I have some GameCube games on RetroArch and think that one of the games I play, might crash (and possibly kill) my laptop. Another fact is that you have to go tinker around the settings to get things working on the emualtion ports and when you do it wrong, the game won't work! As an autistic person, who gets frustrated easily, this doesn't help!

It's because of all that (and my executive dysfunction), I have only played at least 5 emulated games on my laptop and only beat, at least 2 of them.

Games I played:

Nintendo 64

Harvest Moon 64
Mystical Ninji Starring Gormon

Game Boy Color

Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!* (finally beated the game on this version)

Game Boy Advance

Pokemon: Emerald Verison*

itch.io

Year: 2023

Funny thing about this is that I originally made an itch.io account back in summer of 2020 when they have a bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. You can pay a minimum of $5, where they will then donated that money to both the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund. As for the bundle itself, you get a huge amount of games, soundtracks, game software, ttrpg, zines, etc. But it wan't until in Feburary 2023 is when I finally sat down and played one of the games that came in the bound, A Short Hike.

It's a short game where you play as Claire, an anthropomorphic bird, who's goal is reaching the summit of a mountain to get cellphone reception to receieve a phone call from her mom. In order to reach the peak, you must find or purcahse goldent feathers that afford extra jumps and the ability to climb rock faces. There's also side quests and acitivies where you can fish, find lost items, race, collect shells and even play a volleyball-like mini-game. I find the game cute and charming, but it was too short, which was the comment complaint from reviewers.

A month later, I played second game I played on itch.io is A Mortician's Tale. It was another short game, where you play as Charlie, who started work as a mortician at a small, family owned funeral home. Too bad a bigger funeral home bought them out and they made some changes at the place that caused most of the long time empolyees to quit. By the end of the game, Charlie too quit, in order to run her own funeral buisness. That game hit me in the gut because that what happened at my last job as my former boss, a young, single mom was replaced by a more, "experience" worker, who has some shady past. He also made some changes that were unliked and it caused the long time workers to quit in doves. For me, I knew it was time to go and playing that game, made me remember that.

One thing that make itch.io different, compared to Steam is that most of them comes from indie devolpers. While some of the games are free, you can also buy them too. But one of the "downside" of them that some of the games are shovelware. Like, it looks sloppy and rushed. I know Steam has them too, I feel like there's more of them on itch.io.

But one thing I know that even thought I'm proud of finally playing games from itch.io, I have at least a thousand more to go!

Games I played:

A Short Hike*
A Mortician's Tale*

Key:

* - Beaten the game

^ - 100% the game

This page is inspired by one of comfort's page