Back in the long forgotten days of 2000 I got my N64 for Christmas, it was the Pikachu version and I got with it a few games: Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Snap and Taz Express.

Stadium was my favourite, and while I did play plenty of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and other truly great N64 games, it remains my most favoured one of the lot, though I'll admit probably just out of sheer nostalgia. I was, and still am, a big Pokemon fan, and after having my mind blown at the ability to play Red/Blue/Yellow on the big screen in the living room through Stadium, it was re-blown by how awesome Gold/Silver were when I got them a couple of months later.

So you can imagine what I was like when I saw Pokemon Stadium 2 on the shelf one day when I was out shopping with my mum, I begged and I begged to get it, I promised I would never ask for anything again for at least a month, seeing I could play my new favourite games (G/S/C) on my screen in the same way as R/B/Y was enough for me to know I must have it.

But it was too expensive, £55 I seem to remember was the price, I understand why my mum was reluctant to shell out the money, we've never lived in poverty by any means, but that was a lot of money for us at the time to just be throwing away on 1 game, so I didn't get it, and as the years went by I stopped seeing it in stores and forgot about it.

Then last month, whilst clearing out various cupboards, I re-found my N64 and all my games, and that rekindled my need to have the one game that I never got, that I always wanted, so on 4th December, I bought it (£36), fitting really, that was my 20th Birthday, I feel like I have finally closed the book on that chapter of my life.

It sounds weird and incredibly nerdy I know, but it felt important to me.

I plan to not play it until Christmas Day, I'm already on the hunt for my copies of Gold and Silver, hopefully their batteries haven't run out!

Thanks for reading my first blog, I've never been much of a story teller, so I apologise if this isn't the most riveting thing you've read. Also please let me know if I'm just being stupidly weird, I'd also love to here any similar stories from you guys, if you have them.

- Dan