So, picking up where I left off: Early 90's. My golden decade. Anyway, some beautiful day my parents came back from the electronics store and brought me something new. A brand new Sega Master System II. The Brazilian Master System II was pretty much the same as the original version, but it came with a new embedded game: Alex Kidd in the Miracle World. I remember opening the box and feeling astonished with the cool futuristic design. Compared to the vintage looking Atari 2600, the Master System angular shape and black and red coloring looked like something out of sci-fi film. Hey, I was 7 and easily impressed! But what really blew my mind was the D-pad. I've never seen one before and the how concept of using my left thumb to move instead of the whole right hand was really interesting. Suddenly I didn't suck (so much) at games. I've got mad skillz with the left thumb.
 
It was around then when I began to love video games. Soon I had a of dozen of games, including some really memorable like California Games, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and that horrible Ghostbusters game. Horrible but I loved it when I was little. Every time I went the electronics store with dad, I came back with one or two games or a new peripheral. Dad always love those gimmicks and kept buying them. I had the Light Phaser (which I only used to play Rambo III), the 3D Scope (which only used with 2 or 3 games, the only which I recall was Maze Hunter 3D). I even had the arcade controller, which was pretty stupid for me to have, as I never used and the d-pad is just what made me love the Master System in the first place.