Pretry sure it was a Nintendo DS/3DS or something like that. I never actually had a game console until recently. I now have a Nintendo Switch 2 (never got the v1, so might as well get the v2 since its released).
But I don’t have friends so I guess I’m just gonna play with randoms online… 🤷♂️
The Zelda Games are kinda fun, still not finished with them yet.
In school, I overhear conversations about their Wii’s, thei Xbox’es, their Playstations, and kids be like “Ooh I just got the latest one”, and basically the entire socialization was revolving video games, and some were PC gamers but they had an actual gaming rig, not some potato laptop like I had.
So I realize that most of my childhood, I may have been basically been sort of socially ostricized because I don’t know about what the kids were doing, so I didn’t fit in.
And on top of that, maybe my introverted personality just make people not like me even more.
And I think one of the biggest problems was I spend the first like 5 years of my life in the United States (I arrived in the US on an immigration visa when I was a kid as part of my family) basically trying to readjust my brain to learning English so that few years of not speaking the language was probably enough to erode my self esteem and thus spiral into the mess I am right now.
I wonder if this chain of events is why I have depression.
Now every time I hold my Switch 2, I remember the childhood that other’s got to enjoy but I never had. Kinda make me wanna cry.
Did y’all have games growing up. (Like actual games, not pay-to-win games running on a potato)
The DS was great. The Switch lacks the features that made it amazing, imo.
Welp, too bad I never had it to compare. I haven’t played a mario game for like more than 15 years (until now), I vaguely remember playing on some very old Nintendo system when I was very young (like not the handheld types, I don’t think), when I was in China. Then we immigrated to the United States and like we didn’t bring all that stuff, my parents only packed a lot of clothes, legal documents, and like that was it.
I don’t think I ever had a legitimate Nintendo system before, it was probably all bootlegs. And it was always shared with my older brother, I couldn’t play when he was playing.
It’s hard to have to leave everything behind. I think when adults pack for kids, they think about the things you’ll need and don’t consider the kinds of belongings that kids find meaningful.