In my life I've been playing video games about 8 years. My first video game console was a Nintendo 64, and the 1st game I ever played was Mario Kart 64.It was a great game, and brought a lot of great memories. A couple years later, I got a PS2 and began playing Crash Bandicoot Racing and games like that. Those were fun, but I hadn't realized I was a gamer yet. Sometime around when I was 6 or 7, I got Pokemon Emerald Version. After playing it for a few years, I really started to feel like video games were more than just fun on a Saturday afternoon. It really made me feel like I should get into video games. I decided to become a gamer and have made Nintendo my favorite video game company. Since then the two video game franchises I play are Pokemon (Gotta Catch Em' All!) and Mario (series).