[Salone]

The games I grew up on as a small child were few and far between. I had a Genesis and not much else for a while. I had Sonic Spinball, The Pagemaster game (Freaking haaaaaard), Sonic 2, and...Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master.

I don't even know where Shinobi III came from. I didn't get a lot of games, and I was a very wimpy kid, something with fighting is not something I would have asked to buy. It just...showed up. But oh man, I loved playing it. It was the most 80's/early 90's ninja game of all time. Not to mention the title theme was, well... it was the greatest musical number on a Genesis game of all time.

After standing for 13 hours in line to audition for a movie (I didn't get the part), mom bought me a gameboy and Pokemon Red. And oh my god. Pokemon. Poookeeeeeeemoooooon.

From there I descended in to the Command & Conquer series, which I still play to this day 15 years later because it's a fun and varied series, although it's mostly Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge now.