English drives me to replay old games

When I was kid i lived in mexico, my parents gave me a NES when i was merely 4 years old  followed by the super nintendo a few years later. I always asked my dad to buy mario games whenever he traveled to the Texas (which is was 4 hours from my city, Ciudad Victoria) and so I spend much of my childhood playing a lot of games without knowing any English as the only english words were "retry" and "quit" and skipping story intros. 
Everything was fine until my dad bought "Mario RPG the legend of the seven stars" I didnt knew what an RPG was. You can imagine how difficult beating that game was (I usually just talked to every single NPC multiple times until I could progress through the story). I gave up on the game. As years passed my english got better and I followed playing games on N64 GameCube, etc. Now I live in the US, speak fluent english and (ironically) I love to play rpgs. A few months ago my aunt  told me that she had "el nientiendo" stored in a box, she was referring to the SNES, I took it home and started to replay of the games which not only I enjoy because of the nostalgia but the fact that I most of the games have amazing stories that i didnt knew anything about like megaman x and its sequels it felt like playing a new game. I decided to play Mario RPG only to discover an amazing game with a lot of humor and references. I can't wait to play more games :) (the original StarCraft is next on my list)
So I guess i just wanted to share my story and hear your comments. Anyone with a similar background?

When I was kid i lived in mexico, my parents gave me a NES when i was merely 4 years old  followed by the super nintendo a few years later. I always asked my dad to buy mario games whenever he traveled to the Texas (which is was 4 hours from my city, Ciudad Victoria) and so I spend much of my childhood playing a lot of games without knowing any English as the only english words were "retry" and "quit" and skipping story intros. 
Everything was fine until my dad bought "Mario RPG the legend of the seven stars" I didnt knew what an RPG was. You can imagine how difficult beating that game was (I usually just talked to every single NPC multiple times until I could progress through the story). I gave up on the game. As years passed my english got better and I followed playing games on N64 GameCube, etc. Now I live in the US, speak fluent english and (ironically) I love to play rpgs. A few months ago my aunt  told me that she had "el nientiendo" stored in a box, she was referring to the SNES, I took it home and started to replay of the games which not only I enjoy because of the nostalgia but the fact that I most of the games have amazing stories that i didnt knew anything about like megaman x and its sequels it felt like playing a new game. I decided to play Mario RPG only to discover an amazing game with a lot of humor and references. I can't wait to play more games :) (the original StarCraft is next on my list)
So I guess i just wanted to share my story and hear your comments. Anyone with a similar background?

Welcome to America, stay out of Arizona and keep two forms of ID on you.

That's a pretty neat story, pretty cool that you have some reasons to play games from the older generation.
 
I don't think I've ever had a similar experience, not any that I can recall.

When you didn't know English, did you make up stories for each game?

Cool story, bro. 
 
Seriously, I mean it. Always glad to see video games helping us relive those moments =)

Welcome to America, go be like Niko Belic

Glad you got to play Super Mario RPG. That game is amazing. In fact, every single Mario RPG ever made is barring Super Paper Mario as I never played it.

I've been trying the same thing with Japanese, mainly because I haven't checked that box off on my nerd card yet. I'd probably be able to learn it if I wasn't so lazy :P. As for the games I've beaten in that language, walkthroughs help a lot,

No can't say that i have experienced anything similiar, being born in Canada, an english speaking country, and basicaly an American state (with better education), and having an American mother, going back and fourth to California until living there permanently......well you get the picture D:

" Cool story, bro.  Seriously, I mean it. Always glad to see video games helping us relive those moments =) "

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cool story bro