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Today,

The Story of Nintendo.

My earliest memories of video games, it's not even playing them, it's sitting and reading

magazines about Nintendo while my mum was doing the big shop in Sainsbury's.

And just imagining what video games must be like and how in my imagination they were the

greatest things that had ever been invented by humans.

Kezer McDonald is the Guardian's video games editor.

I finally got a Super Nintendo when I was about six for Christmas after just a lot of begging,

probably two years of begging at that point.

And the first game I played was Super Mario World. I think I

remember that Christmas. I think we came up as it kind of was being unboxed, actually. I remember

the sheer and utter joy in that household that Christmas. Oh, and as it happens, she's also my

cousin.

So when I was 11, my biggest dream in all the world was to go to the Pokemon World Championships,

which were going to be held in Sydney

and battle out to be the very best.

And we now have the world champion of Pokemon 2000.

He is from the United Kingdom.

He is Darren Fun Fun Funn.

I didn't get there, tragically.

And then put incinerant asleep. And no Terra!

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