I'm a 31 years old dude and I'm going to start gaming this year! Yeahh!

So, I see a lot of people talking about how they're getting old and playing less and less. Well, I'm the opposite! I'm going to start gaming this year.

Obviously, I've played a lot of games before, but I was always late for the party (like now) because my parents didn't have money and we lived in a poor city in Brazil.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me a Nintendo, which was very cool, but all my friends had Super Nintendos at the time, so I kind of felt left out and at the same time I felt guilty because I knew my parents saved a lot of money to buy the videogame. But it was okay, I had a lot of fun playing Super Mario Bros 3, Kirby's Adventure and a 2-in-1 cartridge that had volleyball/soccer games.

Not long after, Sony released Playstation 1, but it was very expensive, so only few people in my city bought it. If my friends and I wanted to play Playstation games, we would ask our parents for money and we would go to "lan houses" to play. But it wasn't cheap: you could play for one hour, or you could buy 20 pães de queijo (delicious brazilian food) for the same amount of money. Food was much more important, of course.

Even so, we spent years playing like that. We loved to play Tekken 3 because it was fast and everyone could play many times before we ran out of time. Obviously, Eddy Gordo was one of my favorite characters, but you couldn't choose him unless your friend did the same.

A few years later, my parents gave me a Playstation 1 because the release of the PS2 made the price of the former drop considerably. I had few games: Gran Turismo, Syphon Filter, Soccer Pro '98, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and I bought a Metal Gear Solid because people were talking a lot about the game, but I played for a month and thought it wasn't very good, so I stopped playing and felt guilty because I made my parents spend money on a shitty game.

As it turned out, I had bought a "different" Metal Gear Solid. It wasn't the real deal, it was just a game to practice, or something like that. I still don't know what that thing was supposed to be. But I digress...

Less than a year later, my Playstation broke and it was very expensive to repair it, so we sell it to a dude who owned a "lan house". I remember thinking that maybe this "gaming" thing wasn't for me, so as a defense mechanism, I stopped caring about videogames. This was around 2001, and that PS was my last console.

Obviously, I didn't stop to play games. And when my parents bought my first pc, I got addicted to Age of Empires 2, and I played a lot of Counter Strike with my friends, but my focus had changed and gaming was not really part of my life anymore. I played less and less each year, until I lost track of the "gaming world".

Cut to 2018. I started to watch gameplays on YouTube and HOLY SHIT games nowadays are AMAZING! HOLY COW!

So, here I am, a 31 years old dude who have been watching gameplays since last year and decided to start gaming this year. I'm just waiting to start my new job so I can buy a better pc, then a console (an Xbox One or a PS4, I still can't decide and, you guys keep fighting about it, so I'm still analyzing which is better). Until then, I'll keep watching gameplays and I'll keep playing Faster Than Light, which is a game I discovered recently and I'm loving it.

Ps: I can't wait to play Red Dead Redemption. Jesus