Content Creator Challenge Day 9: Favorite Video Game Character

There is a reason I am a Nintendo girlie through and through. While I will certainly pick Yoshi the first chance I get in Mario Kart or Mario Party, Mario himself is obviously the staple character and it is his games that started my love of gaming and it is his games that I will continue to love and fall back on until the end of my gaming career. 

One of my first memories of gaming; my older two siblings were still living at home with us, my parents were hosting some friends for a happy hour, and the youngest two kids had already been put down to bed but the other four of us didn't have to go to sleep just yet. In fact, we may have even ended up staying up past our bedtimes because the adults decided to let us hang down in the basement with them and play video games while they drank with their friends. So we sat on the floor, NES plugged into the 10-inch box TV with two controllers actually plugged into the console and two controllers plugged into an extra controller adapter that remained unplugged from anything else because us younger two couldn't actually play the game. We sat there laughing and thinking we were jumping on the Goomba and crawling through the pipes, eating the mushrooms and finding the secret paths. 

Eventually, I would be old enough and have fine enough motor skills to actually try playing the games like my older two siblings. I would be able to try pulling the trigger on the orange gun for Duck Hunt or press X and Y to jump on the Goomba heads. 

That is where my love for gaming began and would continue to grow and that is why Mario will always be my favorite game character.