Video Gaming Geek Since The '80s

I have been a fan of video games since the beginning of the '80s. My first video game system that I got was an Atari 400 and my first game I played was Pac-Man. Then my first handheld video game was a Milton Bradley MicroVision that my paternal grandparents gave me when I was a kid. I enjoyed it very much but haven't played it much since I was out and about with school,the Latchkey program I was part of & being babysat from my paternal grandparents' place to my nana's place plus,I was in New Hampshire with my biological mother for a long time as well so I did not have that opportunity to enjoy video games as much as I wanted to until my father came and brought me back home to New Bedford where I felt I belonged there. Since then,my father started going to church and made new friends there,friends that helped my father change his life around. His friends became my friends and they noticed I like video games as well. One of my new friends,Dougie Gonsalves,gave me a ColecoVision for my birthday and I REALLY enjoyed it! I was introduced to games like Donkey Kong,Venture,Carnival,Mouse Trap,Mr. Do! and even Donkey Kong Junior! Then I had to take a break from it due to school and my new stepmother enforcing rules in the house. Then,through my friends in the neighborhood,I was introduced to Nintendo and I loved it so much! I could not stop talking about Nintendo and I annoyed the heck out of anyone within an earshot of me talking about it. Well,my parents decided to give me a Nintendo Power Set for my birthday! I was ecstatic about it! The only catch was that I was allowed to play for one hour. Plus,my friend next door had a magazine called the Nintendo Fun Club magazine,it was really cool! But school was becoming more important and my grades were slipping at the time so my parents decided to shut it down for the time being. But I also got into wrestling in the '90s as well,but I also wasted most of my teenage life chasing after Paulette Costa,the girl I had a crush on in my church(look up June 7,2011 blog for that story). Then my family grew and we moved in 1995. Again,my Nintendo playing time is gone UNTIL I got my own room in 1998. Once that happened,my stepmother decided to give me back all my video games and video game magazines! During the time from 1995,I got a job and started buying video game and video game magazines. Then I got a Super NES,a PlayStation,PlayStation 2,Sega Dreamcast,and an XBOX. I got a lot of games between these 5 systems. Then 3 years ago,my parents got me a Nintendo Wii for Christmas,something I did not expect,it was really awesome! Then I got an XBOX 360 as well. Then a place known as Games To Gold happened to me. I bought a Sega Saturn there and then I opened up an Amazon.com account to get Night Warriors: DarkStalkers' Revenge to complete the DarkStalkers trilogy. Then I bought the coup de grace of video game systems: the ColecoVision. I did not know what happened to the ColecoVision I was given over 25 years ago so I bought this one. I bought the games off of Amazon.com: Carnival,Mouse Trap and Venture. Because I have a computer and been too busy surfing the Internet,I have not been playing video games as much but I will get back into the swing of things as soon as I can. Plus,I also got a Nintendo 3DS,which I got New Super Mario Bros. 2 with it. Now thanks to Amazon.com,I have the opportunity to relive my childhood! Well,I have to admit,I wished my parents did not take away my video game privileges because had they not taken them away,I would not have to worry about having an obsessive crush on Paulette,LOL! But we'll never know for sure what would have happened but the bottom line is,I like video games and my childhood lives on!

Power Rangers 20th Anniversary

We are about a little over 3 months plus away from celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers coming to TVs all over the world. I started watching Power Rangers because of my little brother,Tyler. He wanted to watch them because there were dinosaurs on the snow and he was big into dinosaurs at the time. I liked the martial arts footage straight from Japan and the hand movements were pretty cool! The cast of the original six was awesome! Even when we stopped watching them,I try to find a way to keep watching them,trying to get information about them as much as I can. Then I decided to watch them on my old-school TV when I had a room upstairs in my house,watching the Power Rangers Turbo with a new cast of Rangers to defend the Earth. It wasn't until 1998,when I got a room in the basement and really started watching them again,trying to tape episodes of the Rangers so I can watch them over and over again! Now that the episodes are coming out on DVD,I have been getting them! I have the entire 1st season on DVD! Cannot wait for Super Megaforce despite the behind-the-scenes drama that is going on as far as cameos are concerned. I am looking forward to how the Power Rangers 20th Anniversary will be celebrated this year! I hope it's awesome!

Making Fun Of Fandango (Faaaaaaaaaaan-Daaaaaaaaaan-Goooooooooo)

Johnny Curtis,the winner of NXT Season 4,debuted in the WWE under a ballroom dancing gimmick simply known as Fandango. To get heat,Fandango would refuse to wrestle until people gets his name right. So Chris Jericho decided after Fandango rudely interrupted Jericho's interview time,to botch up his name on purpose,just to get him to fight in the ring,which culminated in a matchup at WrestleMania 29. Jericho came up with some funny names but I came up with some of my own funny names of Fandango and here they are:

FaaaaaanDaaaaaanDisick
FaaaaaanDamienSandow
FaaaaaanDaaaaaaandertaker
FaaaanBunghole
FaaaaanDaaaaaanHADOKEN!
FaaaaanDaaaaanHibiki
FaaaaanDumDumYouGiveMeGumGum
FaaaaanDumbass
FandanGaylordFocker
FanDashingCodyRhodes
FanDanGoldust
FanDanDavidHasselhoff
FanDanDoowahdiddididdidumdiddidoo
FanDanDiddyCombs
FandanSlamlamadingdong
FanDingdong
Fancornholio
FaaaaanDingleberry
FaaaaanDonFlamenco
FaaaaanDonFrancisco
Flamingo
Phantasio