Who Am I?

Hey everybody! My name is Brandon Legried. I am fifteen years old and I have been playing video games for, what I consider, a very long time. I suppose I got into video games when I saw my dad and my uncle play video games (Mortal Kombat II was the one of the video games that wanted me to watch them, ironically) on the Sega Genesis, together. I was about two years old. They didn't let me play video games, sadly, until I made it to three years old. I wasn't very good at video games, either...

Since the Genesis controller was about twice the size of my hands combined, I didn't thrive off playing video games. But I watched my dad play video games a lot. He had already bought Mortal Kombat 3 and some other video games. He showed me Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that year (1996) which I LOVED to death! I was actually quite good at those video games at the ripe old age of three. Getting all the way to the boss in Chemical Plant made me good at video games, right?

After the Christmas of 1998, my dad bought a Nintendo 64 video game console (I know there was snow outside, anyway). Those video games definitely weren't for me, because my hands were still smaller than you could imagine. The only video games he played were Goldeneye 007 and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. I decided I would play those video games with him. I remember whining when I was forced to be "that girl with the red hair" Natalya. I hardly ever won against my dad: I always blew myself up with the rocket launchers... The following birthday I got two Nintendo 64 video games: Mario Party and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. My dad tells me that when I unwrapped those video games that day, I just tossed them away not knowing what they were. I wasn't very good at either of those video games when I started playing them. After that day, I noticed my dad was playing Ocarina of Time a lot. Did he really buy that video game for me or for himself? I just watched him play that video game for the heck of it, I didn't even care if I played or not. I watched him play the video game as if I was in the cinema watching a movie.

The first video game that I played religiously was, indeed, Ocarina of Time. I started playing the video game from the start. I was proud of myself when I got "Inside the Deku Tree". When I got to Queen Gohma, I started crying "Daddy! Daddy! Help me!". I didn't cry in a lazy way, but in a frightened way. He didn't help me, but I defeated her! I was kind of stupid when it came to solving puzzles in the Forest Temple and Water Temple and such (What do you expect? I was only five...). However, I ended up finishing the video game in about three months! Yeah, finishing Zelda video games don't take THAT much time anymore, but I was only five years old at the time. Give me a break, lol!

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Video game consoles owned: Genesis, N64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo DS, Wii

Favorite Video Game: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Most Hated Video Game: Shadow the Hedgehog

Least Time Spent on a Video Game: About 4 Hours (Rayman Raving Rabbids- Wii)

Most Time Spent on a Video Game: About 4 Months (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)

Hobbies besides video games: Singing, Acting, Writing (not just about video games, I love writing)