I find it weird and coincidental that when thinking up a series of blogs to do, that I shall receive an achievement for doing so. Reward for writing = Win in my opinion and hopefully I will endeavour to write just that little bit more, much to your displeasure ha!

“Love Game, Not Console” is a journey into the hey day, the youth and innocence of my gaming glory long for gone. Long before a time where Scientists and Lawyers were linking gaming to violence... then unlinking... then linking again... then unlinking and... well you get the picture. Long before the absences of an R18+ rating was an issue between Australian gamers and one said former South Australian Attorney General (highlighting the former there). I was me, a boy aged 6 or something close to. A normal 6ish boy I was, always getting in to trouble, doing stuff I wasn't meant to do. You know like waking up at 5 in the morning, blasting you father's record collection all through the house and subsequently getting spanked for doing so.

So said father had a idea. A stroke of genius you may say when he thought of renting (yeah family wasn't rich at this time) out a Sega Mega Drive for me to play at 5 morning instead of Sweet Child O' Mine. And so started my decent into all things gaming!

“Love Game, Not Console” will be a focus on the games I remember choosing to own first when I first pulled that mighty Mega Drive or X360 out of their respective boxes of freshness. Believe you me when I say this is definitely not going to be a “Best Of”. But naivety is bliss... especially when you are young and the evil that is Metacritic doesn't exist as yet.

It's only fitting that the Genesis piece for this series starts with the Genesis (Sega that is) Console. In the mean time I will allow you in the time being to guess what cartridge I first inser.... Sorry I was mean't to say, first blew into, then inserted into the Genesis. You could win a prize... but you won't... but you could... but you won't.

Also feel free if the creative juices are flowing to let me know what your first experience with the Genesis was as I prepare the next iteration of this series.

As I leave I will say this. The following two words should not be said together.

Moist Ointment.