Firstly, my wife Abby and I celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday.
We’ve been together since high school, but officially got married last year.
We spent a lot of time just hanging around our house and going out to eat. Normal couple stuff.
We initially wanted to travel out of state, but figured we’d spend the money on other stuff and just stay home.
Which, home is where I prefer to be!
We are planning on hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for my mom today, and her parents on Friday.
I’ve enjoyed just living my life and being with her. This past year has truly felt like magic.
I’ve been able to do pretty much everything I wanted to do in life and I’m certainly grateful for it.
I have never been this happy.
Ocarina of Time 25th.
Ocarina of Time is my favorite Zelda game.
No…
Ocarina of Time is my favorite game of all time.
It’s the best game ever created. I’m thankful a lot of people still know that.
Nothing has changed how I feel about it.
I’m grateful I played it when it was new. I’m thankful it made me into the gamer I still am today.
I don’t think we’d have 3D action games like Dark Souls and The Witcher 3 if it weren’t for the leaps and bounds Nintendo took back in 1998.
What a revolutionary title.
I’ve already done my 25th anniversary stream, but I am excited to play it again and again and again!
17 years of Twilight Princess
It really does feel like all of my favorite games that I grew up with are getting anniversaries at the same time.
I was scrolling Twitter and saw Twilight Princess and then Ocarina of Time.
I was amazed.
Has it really been 17 years since I took down Ganondorf?
My brother Michael and I spent months playing this game when we lived in NC.
It seems like it just happened and now those days are just memories.
My how the time flies. It’s cool how video games help me remember things and look back.
Twilight Princess still remains my second favorite Zelda game. It’s truly what I wanted in a title.
Happy anniversary to one of the 🐐s
Pokémon Gold & Silver
An anniversary that snuck up on me was the release of Pokémon Gold and Silver for the Nintendo Game Boy. 24 years ago!
This is actually what made me want to write this blog.
We are truly celebrating the time I became a gamer, because Ocarina of Time wasn’t the only game that pushed me into gaming.
On Christmas day of 2000 I went downstairs into the cold den of my grandparent’s house where my mom gifted me a small box wrapped in Digimon wrapping paper.
I had no idea what it was inside this gift — but I did love me some Digimon.
I ended up opening a blue Nintendo Game Boy — one of the teal blue ones.
I remember being really ecstatic that day. I was overjoyed.
I had my own video game console.
I’d later get a copy of Pokémon Silver that I’d play throughout second grade, but it’s hard to remember what age or what time period that came into my life.
I basically played Ocarina of Time and Pokémon Silver religiously.
Those were my games.
And today we get to celebrate both releases.
It’s great to see how two games that have impacted my life so much and gave me so many great memories are being celebrated together.
These are games I won’t ever forget.
Although Pokémon Silver is still technically on my backlog, I did get all 8 badges when I was younger.
Some day I will return and do the whole thing.
There are video games out there who haven’t gotten enough time behind them yet for me to celebrate, but I’m sure they will sneak up on me one day — just like today — and I’ll get to celebrate those memories too.
It just feels like…one minute your mom is cooking dinner in the kitchen, and you and your brother are fighting against an evil king of thieves…
And then you blink…
and all that time is gone.
:)
I’m grateful for my wife, and I’m grateful for video games.
It’s no coincidence that I get to celebrate both at the same time.
As we get closer to thanksgiving and Christmas, it should be all about loving life and family — spreading love and giving thanks to the things in our life that make us excited and happy.
Happy anniversary to me.
