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Hello WORLD! whats up and how is the weather in YOUR area? Here, it is drab, cloudy and a little cool, but, none the less its not too bad! It has been a while, since I have posted an entry. there hasn't been too many things of huge interest happening to really tell you about.
Although I am kind of frightend about my first speech in Public Speaking. I'm kind of afraid that alot of the other students will not find it the least bit interesting, considering we were supposed to be using either our roles or what have you, that we take in life.
I chose the following:
1. Video Gamer
2. Anime Fan
3. Artist
not too much going on there lol, but I do have an interesting back story as to why I chose those three:
1. Video Gamer: When I was little, say around 1983 (I was four yrs old then), we had an Atari 2600 and had several games for the system. I can remember very clearly sitting down and playing the games with my sisters, especially Tank, Space Invaders, Missle Command, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Pong, Frogger and Q-Bert. Of course, this is just a taste of the games that we used to own for this system.
As I got older and the Atari began to lose its appeal, a new system hit the market called "Nintendo". Four of its most popular games would eventually go down in history and to this day are some of the most popular titles around. These titles, include the following: The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy. Of course this again, is only a small sampling of what the Nintendo had to offer back then.
With this system, I have a few good memories. One of the most memorable, would have to be when we owned the Kid Icarus game. According to some info that I had looked up at one point, this game was one of THE rarest that the original Nintendo had seen released. Only a handful of copies had been manufactured and to this day, I still wish I had that game! XD
Anyway, to get back to the story, me and one of my sisters, had started this game and she told me, that since she wasn't there all the time, I had to wait until they came to visit, to play Kid Icarus, because they liked it too and they wanted to defeat the game just as much as I did. You have no idea how hard it was, to keep from playing the game, when my sisters weren't around! And for those of you who don't know, my sisters are half-sisters. They would come down every summer or every other major holiday. We used to have a blast when we were all together and since I was the LITTLE sister of the three of us, I usually got the worst end of every deal!
And so, after being turned in to an Eggplant by the annoying Eggplant Wizards about a thousand times, falling off of platforms and small landings over 4 dozen times and dying over a billion times, we finally defeate the game around 3 years later! XD I swear, that was THE LONGEST it ever took me to defeat a video game!
Then, around 1997, I was introduced to one of THE most AMAZING games that I had ever laid eyes on! The name of this game, was Final Fantasy VII and was released for the original Playstation and since then, the Final Fantasy Series (minus 12), has been my absolute favorite game since I was introduced to it and the Playstation, has been my console of choice for just as long.
My dad still doesn't like the fact that I play video games. He finds them childish and to be honest nothing more than a waste of money. However, I beg to differ. On my days off and when I do not have to study, I sit down, pop in a game and I am immersed in to a world of relaxation. (omg! that sounded totally cheesy! X3)
2. Anime: Anime, has also been with me since I was small. Though I didn't know it at the time, two of my all-time favorite shows as a child, were original conceived and released over in Japan. Known as Hundred-Beast King Go-Lion over there, Voltron: Defender of the Universe was by far one of the most amazing shows I had seen when I came home from school every day. I remember plopping down in front of the TV ready for the next exciting episode to air. The same was true about Transformers as well.
One of the things that I can clearly remember, is that I wanted the five robot lions so that I could merge them and form Voltron! XD haha! my dad wouldn't let me have any of the lions, save for the Blue Lion and that was only because I told him that a girl piloted it and then he let me have one. I also wanted Optimus Prime and uh, yeah, that fell through as well lol! XD
3. Drawing: Both Video games and Anime have added to my intrest of being an artist. So much in fact, that I started off by copying and enlarging what was I was already looking at. This would come to be termed as "Fan Art" In truth my very FIRST drawings, were of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from their Super NES game titled "TMNT: Tournament Fighters. I had drawn all four turtles and where those drawings went, I have no idea, I do know that at least two of them have survived and are stored away in a storage container.
From there, I have drawn numerous pieces of fan art, ranging from Magic Knight Rayearth, to Beauty and the Beast, Disney's Hercules, Pocahontas, Naruto, Gundam Wing, as well as Dragonball Z, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. Since then, I have begun to create my own characters, my own fantasy art and even though I have never studied the human anatomy, I think they turn out pretty good, save for a few things that can't be noticed unless you turn the paper over! XD
One day I hope to become a manga artist or a fiction author on the side. Not sure where that will take me, but I suppose time will tell!.
Anyway, I guess I have made this post long enough lol. So, I will come back with a Part 2 sometime this week! have a great day everyone!
As I got older and the Atari began to lose its appeal, a new system hit the market called "Nintendo". Four of its most popular games would eventually go down in history and to this day are some of the most popular titles around. These titles, include the following: The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy. Of course this again, is only a small sampling of what the Nintendo had to offer back then.
With this system, I have a few good memories. One of the most memorable, would have to be when we owned the Kid Icarus game. According to some info that I had looked up at one point, this game was one of THE rarest that the original Nintendo had seen released. Only a handful of copies had been manufactured and to this day, I still wish I had that game! XD
Anyway, to get back to the story, me and one of my sisters, had started this game and she told me, that since she wasn't there all the time, I had to wait until they came to visit, to play Kid Icarus, because they liked it too and they wanted to defeat the game just as much as I did. You have no idea how hard it was, to keep from playing the game, when my sisters weren't around! And for those of you who don't know, my sisters are half-sisters. They would come down every summer or every other major holiday. We used to have a blast when we were all together and since I was the LITTLE sister of the three of us, I usually got the worst end of every deal!
And so, after being turned in to an Eggplant by the annoying Eggplant Wizards about a thousand times, falling off of platforms and small landings over 4 dozen times and dying over a billion times, we finally defeate the game around 3 years later! XD I swear, that was THE LONGEST it ever took me to defeat a video game!
Then, around 1997, I was introduced to one of THE most AMAZING games that I had ever laid eyes on! The name of this game, was Final Fantasy VII and was released for the original Playstation and since then, the Final Fantasy Series (minus 12), has been my absolute favorite game since I was introduced to it and the Playstation, has been my console of choice for just as long.
My dad still doesn't like the fact that I play video games. He finds them childish and to be honest nothing more than a waste of money. However, I beg to differ. On my days off and when I do not have to study, I sit down, pop in a game and I am immersed in to a world of relaxation. (omg! that sounded totally cheesy! X3)
2. Anime: Anime, has also been with me since I was small. Though I didn't know it at the time, two of my all-time favorite shows as a child, were original conceived and released over in Japan. Known as Hundred-Beast King Go-Lion over there, Voltron: Defender of the Universe was by far one of the most amazing shows I had seen when I came home from school every day. I remember plopping down in front of the TV ready for the next exciting episode to air. The same was true about Transformers as well.
One of the things that I can clearly remember, is that I wanted the five robot lions so that I could merge them and form Voltron! XD haha! my dad wouldn't let me have any of the lions, save for the Blue Lion and that was only because I told him that a girl piloted it and then he let me have one. I also wanted Optimus Prime and uh, yeah, that fell through as well lol! XD
3. Drawing: Both Video games and Anime have added to my intrest of being an artist. So much in fact, that I started off by copying and enlarging what was I was already looking at. This would come to be termed as "Fan Art" In truth my very FIRST drawings, were of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from their Super NES game titled "TMNT: Tournament Fighters. I had drawn all four turtles and where those drawings went, I have no idea, I do know that at least two of them have survived and are stored away in a storage container.
From there, I have drawn numerous pieces of fan art, ranging from Magic Knight Rayearth, to Beauty and the Beast, Disney's Hercules, Pocahontas, Naruto, Gundam Wing, as well as Dragonball Z, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. Since then, I have begun to create my own characters, my own fantasy art and even though I have never studied the human anatomy, I think they turn out pretty good, save for a few things that can't be noticed unless you turn the paper over! XD
One day I hope to become a manga artist or a fiction author on the side. Not sure where that will take me, but I suppose time will tell!.
Anyway, I guess I have made this post long enough lol. So, I will come back with a Part 2 sometime this week! have a great day everyone!
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