I've played video games probably ever since I devloped a conscious. From old computer games, to playing Pokemon & Yo-Kai Watch on my crusty old DS, to playing on my cousins' Wii, I'd say I generally spent a large chunk of my childhood playing games. One of my favorite games from when I was a kid has to be Taiko No Tatsujin, a game I fell in love with in Japan. Now, I eventually got a home copy of Taiko, but let me tell you, it is quite possibly the worst game you could possibly buy for a hyperactive 7-year-old child. Gameplay in Taiko No Tatsujin consists of repeatedly and rapidly banging giant drumsticks upon a drum controller. And when I tell you I beat that drum like there was no tomorrow, I seriously FOUGHT that drum.
Later on, around 2nd grade, I got into Splatoon, a game about squidkids playing high-stakes paintball, a series which I would proceed to be horrifingly obnoxious about to all of my friends at school for years. I would ramble on and on about whatever was new with the cephalopod cinematic universe to them for hours, regardless of if they wanted to hear about it or not. Fun times! Probably not for them, though.
I also had a Tetris phase, and let me tell you, I kick butt at Tetris. I remember spending hours studying how different mechanics work, and how to start with the best opening structures (hachicannon is still my favorite), and all of that junk which most people don't really care about. And of course, with Tetris came Puyo Puyo, another similarly-structured puzzle game about blowing up weird blobs with eyeballs by matching four of them. And like Tetris, I, too, studied this game to no end for some reason. So if I have no other achievements of which to celebrate in my life, it's that I was the ranked #1 Puyo Puyo Tetris player in Washington state at one point. (I say one point because it's probably changed. It's been, like, a year.)
These days, I still play a lot of the games I did when I was a kid, and more. (Come to think of it, this is more me talking about video games that I like than actually talking about myself...) I spend most of my time playing Taiko and Touhou today, both games I really want to work hard and improve at. Even outside of games, I really like doing things that I can work to get better at, like drawing and learning subjects like math (even if I slack on my homework way too much). Who knows, maybe someday I'll have my moment where someone falls to the ground and shouts out in distress, "I NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN PLAY THE TAIKO DRUM, OR I WILL DIE!!" Then I can conviently produce my giant plastic taiko drum which I will carry throughout my adult life every waking and resting second, presumably should this exact moment occur, and let my beautiful THWAK-THWAK-THWAKing serenade them.
It shall be angelic.
