I want to chat to myself about some of my favorite and first ever gaming moments.  Come to think of it, they actually are some of my earliest memories of all my memories as a human being.  That's the kind of impact gaming has had on me I guess.  So instead of trying to wipe them away with Sham-Wow, let's celebrate them.  

My older brother was gaming before I can remember.  He was a legend and without him I'm not sure I would have been the same gamer I am today.  He taught me everything I know about NES games and Genesis games.  However he gave up gaming after that but whatever! That's not the point.  

The point is I remember we were down on Cape Cop at our summer house and he had that NES powered on and I'm not sure if I knew it at the time, since I was like 8 or soemthing, but he was playing Metroid.  He was like 2 feet from the television.  IF my dad had saw him he would have killed him.  But my dad was mowing the lawn or something, maybe buying lobsters.  Whatever, he was doing something!  

MY brother was at Mother Brain.  One of the most epic final boss battles ever, as far as I'm considered.  The deadly music, tthose incredibly annoying spore things, the sound of your missles chewing up the doors and slamming on Mother Brains face, the lava pit, and of course the slow frigging fram-rate because there's absolutley so much stuff going on at one-time it's ridiculous.  Then he got to the section after, where you have to climb out of the level and get back to your ship before the planet explodes.  The timer comes on the screen and the pressure is on to climb those platforms.  I remember him falling.  I remember him not making it out of there and my brother throwing the controller against the wall.