Personal Inquiry - First draft

For my Personal Inquiry I want to talk about gaming when I was much younger, how it has effected me today and how it will mold my future.
I've always been a heavy Nintendo fan, heavy being a pretty key word during my childhood (I was a proper Fat Boy), I was always one to get home, strip off and jump into my PJ's and start playing video games, it probably didn't help that I only lived one road away from my school so lets just say I had absolutely Zero exercise as a child.

One of my earliest memories was unwrapping an old kitchen set, looking at my mum and being like: YAAY, KITCHEN STUFF!! Then finding out it was a SEGA Mega drive with a bunch of games on the inside, (My mother still to this day wraps up tricks just to disappoint me, my favorite being the game boy game hidden in a TV box, I was sure I had got nothing that year till I kept digging) sonic was by far the one I played the most, never actually getting any further than the 4th or 5th stage was my specialty, SEGA quickly died as soon as I discovered Mario 64 at my Dad's house.

My step brother Ryan was about 9 and I was 6 and one of the first games I played was 'Wave Race' it was basically just a jet ski racer and for some reason we was both agreed that the only girl character was slightly faster than all the others, Ryan let me nickname her so being the lemon that I am I chose to call her 'Lovely', a stupid name that makes no sense but I was only 6, he didn't have many games so now I think about it i'm not sure why it took so long to show me the wonders of Mario 64 sooner, maybe he was trying to get 100% on wave race or something dumb like that.

Mario's 3D landscape blew my tiny mind hole, I proceeded to learn every little trick to each level, all the teleport locations, the best place to launch from the canons, all the secret stars and the easiest ways to find all the coins (Red and Gold). You could say I was obsessed.

As soon as my mum would let me buy my own games console I rushed down to cash converters and bought a Nintendo 64 for as cheap as I could, I made sure to by the one that came with Wave Race and some of the other games Ryan used to have, purely for nostalgia reasons.
At this point I should quickly let you know that I didn't used to see my dad a lot when I was young because of my parents separating which meant I didn't see Ryan either, I tried to get my mum to buy his old Nintendo, to no such luck he got more money for it at the local cash converters. This is were it gets real interesting.
I get home, plug everything in, and guess who's staring back at me on her ridiculous pink Jet Ski. It was Lovely, the copy of Wave Race I got was Ryan's, I hadn't seen him in years (Still haven't, he's like nearly 25 now) and I was now so happy to be able to keep a piece of him.

I loved my brother and it was him that made me love gaming. Without him I wouldn't of been so attached to playing the lesser known games and trying new things.