Wednesday, December 01, 2004

My First Super NES Game

Christmas 1995...

The entire family was in Maryland for Christmas that year. My grandfather and uncle from Illinois had traveled nearly 900 miles to visit us. It would be an exciting Christmas... and a memorable one too.

The whole family was downstairs getting ready for Christmas dinner and we were playing our very first Super Nintendo game, even though the SNES had been out for a few years by that point. Donkey Kong Country, a revolutionary game in the graphics department, was easily able to surpass anything else out on the market. Compared to even the 32X, it was simply beautiful. The pre-rendered graphics allowed the SNES to run the game, even though the CPU is slower than the Sega Genesis.

We had been playing it almost all day, and by dinnertime, we had reached the Treetop village and we were fighting our way through tons of barrel shooting puzzles. Right when we were about to turn the game off to go eat dinner, the power went out. Fortunately we had saved earlier, but some of our progress had been lost along the way.

We would end up enjoying a candlelit dinner, since the power was out. Strangely enough, this power outage only affected our street, and even then it didn't affect one of the houses at the top of the street. I guess they were on a different line or something. So, we ended up having a memorable Christmas, and that's the same time I got Donkey Kong Country, still one of my most highly regarded console games. Even though we didn't get to play it that night because the power didn't turn back on until around 2 AM, we still had an enjoyable night with the family celebrating Christmas. :-)

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