30 Days of Video Games Day 1

For anyone who doesn't know, this meme has been kind of going around the internet.  I'm not 100% on why it was made or why other people do it, but I'm writing this because video games are fascinating to me for many reasons, one of which being that popularized gaming has been around for all of a few decades.  For anyone who accidentally stumbled on this and had some compulsion to read this and therefore doesn't know me, I am less than a few decades old; two and a fifth (rounded down) to be exact.  Being almost as young as an industry is kind of weird, and it makes a totally legitimate sounding excuse to really like video games and treat them halfway seriously.


So here goes.


Day 1: My Very First Video Game


Okay, so I'm not sure what my first game is, because I started playing reeeeaaaally early.  I'm pretty sure, though, that the first thing I played video games on was the original Game Boy.  And as any red-blooded American who played games on that brick, I played the most American game around:

I remember playing this before I even knew what I was doing.  I played multiplayer Tetris with my brother before I even really recognized Mario and Luigi as the characters on the side of the screen.  

Since then, I've seen Tetris grow into probably the biggest game franchise ever.  Tetris on the Game Boy in 1989 accomplished what the Wii set out to do in 2007: it captured every gaming market around.  Do you know someone who hasn't played Tetris?  If they haven't, they're in the minority.