The 3DGS Nerd

Lylat

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

More or less that’s how you could define the time around 1997 when I first got my hands to play StarFox 64 or Lylat Wars on a friends Nintendo 64.

I do very well remember how he showed me that game and I just instantly fell in love with it.

The Nintendo 64… A good console. The first, and yet only console I have and had.

I remember it like yesterday, when I came to his house. A big house with plenty of empty rooms, a big blue gate and a quite small courtyard in comparison to the big house. I was visiting an old friend of whom I don’t even remember his name by now. We went upstairs to his room and there it was. A game that I have heard lots before but did never get to see myself: StarFox 64.

It was already in the N64, shining and kind of looking to me, telling me to play it. I could almost hear it when it said “Play with me!!”.

This was it, the moment I have been waiting for so long (well, as a child even one week seems very long for you!). He started the N64. The Nintendo logo, and then finally the game. We didn’t understand a single English word at that time, but hell! Who cares anyway? Eventually we found the right button to start the training and I still don’t know how we made it, but in the end we finally understood all the controls. We spent all day long playing this that we almost forgot time.

Since then, I have never played that game again.

Never ever. But every now and then I would dig out some old magazines and look just on the pictures and later watch YouTube videos. It’s so awesome.

And now finally, I bought it on eBay.

Just a few days until it arrives.

My N64 is already set-up.

Yay.

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