Well, hello there, welcome to GameScoop Presents Back in the Day, as you can see in this new RetroGaming podcast, I am Damon Hatfield host of GameScoop, and I'd like to thank RetroGaming aficionado. I'm joined by Jack Debris.

I'm young, so I don't know why I'm here. Well, you've been playing games since you were a little pup. And you were a little pup in the 90s, so that kind of qualifies you.

Which is now old, that's RetroGaming. 90s games are RetroGaming. In video game years, I'm Ancient.

And Colomore already. Maybe let's start out by just discussing a little bit of our RetroGaming roots.

My first gaming console I ever had was an Atari 2600, and I think the first game I remember playing is Defender on that. How about you guys? First console, first game you remember playing?

First console I actually owned was the Sega Genesis. It was my parents hated gaming, but the first games I would play religiously was Super Mario Brothers on the NES.

But you had the Genesis first?

I had it. Well, no, I would go over to my friend's house and play Mario and sneak up to his room. And sometimes it would sneak in when he was gone. I don't know how I got away with that.

Yeah, when I was like four, and we'll play it, but Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog won for my first games that I personally owned.

For me, the first console I owned was an NES. The earliest game I remember playing is Kid Acres. But I was born in 1984, so really I was blessed with having a brother that's 11 years older than me.

And since I was very young, I just wrote about it actually in the Final Fantasy IV PSP review about how my brother would, when I was like six or seven, he would be playing Final Fantasy II when it just came out.

Everyone went to bed. He'd come into my room and sneak like, you know, we had come in my room and want to play it the late at night or whatever, and then I'd sit there.

So it was really due to him that I had exposure to things like Atari and early NES games and stuff like that, which is good. So cool.

Yeah. You have a retro gaming system of choice. What's been your favorite console ever? For me, it has to be the NES.

Oh, yeah, it probably is for most people. Yeah, anyone who actually got to play in the NES while it was out, will obviously say that.

Yeah, I agree. NES has the, I really think the, first of all, NES is library's huge. And it has really something for everyone.

And really many things for everyone. So that's like really the best part about it is like it's, you don't, you know, you point to something like even like a contemporary like master system, you're like, all right, it has like Alex kid and like fantasy star.

But like with this, it's like, you know, NES has like a slew RPGs and a slew of action games and some great puzzle games and some great, you know, even adventure games like point and click like adventure games and stuff.

Yeah, that's where I was, you know, got started playing point and click games like shadow gate, unavited.

Dejavu and even there was King's Quest V. That's where I played King's Quest V was on the NES. Yeah, it's also, I mean, I'm sure some people think that that's an impure.

Short made a game probably is, but that's how I experienced. Yeah, and that was, that was my, my early six years of adventure games and point and click games too, because it's like, I didn't really play.

The earliest PC game I remember playing was like chips challenge. So that's like well after that's around maybe in the mid 90s, but that was about when I started getting into that stuff.

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