For the past few days, I kept thinking about the past … what I did, how my life was when the original gameboy, SNES and Genesis were dominating the console world. Growing up in the late 80′s and born into a family whose uncle and cousin are hardcore gamers, it’s no surprise that I turn out to be a gamer myself.

As a kid, I wasn’t really interested in RPG genres. Few reasons is because the sets that my uncle owned are Famicon and Sega 16bit, which are Japan sets. Second is because .. well … I’m just too freaking lazy to read those wordings appeared (LOL!). “Start” button is always my best friend cause thats how you skip through all the “boring” stuff and cut to the chase.

Nearly half of my life was dedicated to BTU (Beat-Them-Up) and VS (Versus) games, literally ranging from Golden Axe, Streets of Rage to Final Fight as well as Rushing Beat series. VS games for me at the time were Street Fighter, Street Fighter and more Street Fighter. I didn’t manage to get my hands on King of Fighters until the year 1996. Tekken was a whole lot different experience for me but I will talk about that later. For now, it’s the 16 bit era.

I played those BTU games a lot with my uncle, my cousin and sometimes my sis. Regardless of how many times we finish it, we would play it over and over again. Its pretty weird … considering that we have a lot better games nowadays but not many actually make me repeat the game like .. more than 10 times? To date the games which I replayed the most is Metal Gear Solid series and Fatal Frame series, and that is because my girlfriend loves to watch me play it (just shows how lucky I feel I am to have a girl who is interested in games as much as I do *heh*)

As the years go by, BTU games are slowly dying … in fact its pretty rare to see a game company that comes out with such genre anymore. First Person Shooters, Role Playing Game, Adventure, MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) RPG practically ruled the gaming world now. Even so, once in a while I will load up those games and replay them just for nostalgia sake. There will always be a place in my gaming world for BTU games.

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