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I was a sickly kid so I actually did not go outside as much as my friends and cousins. I was just starting middle school in 1996 so yeah, that sucked pretty badly not going to lie. Middle school/7th to 8th grade/13 to 14 years old or 15 for the ones that got left back once is that time period where kids are at their most vicious/can be some ol' lunatics. I quickly met some fellow nerds so I used to bring my old phat gameboy to school with a link cable and play some gameboy killer instinct, lol. My first ever school elective was band class.....I wanted to play the drums or the sax but lul my parents ain't spending that much money so I got a clarinet......=/ lol.

My house was just getting cartoon network around this period so I spent my TV time watching the usual popular stuff of the time. Used to watch sitcoms and shows like fresh prince, family matters, living single (it came on after wrastlin' so why not right), martin, in living color, kenan and kel, salute your shorts, married with children, all the good stuff really. Cartoons is the stuff damn near every show kids in the 90s in murica' was watching.

My favorite of all though.......WWF raw is war (well this one is more 1997). God damn did I love me some wrestling in this era, lol. I was there right when they transition into the attitude era so all the storylines I was there for.

Video games wise neither me nor my brother actually owned any of the 32 bit consoles yet. I was still in my nintendo fanboy stage since I grew up with nintendo products (my dad bought me a SNES like two weeks after it released in NA and my parents also just randomly bought me a gameboy one year for christmas. I didn't ask for it but god damn did I love it), so it was still all NES, SNES, gameboy, and sega genesis (my older brother got this as a present) with a sega CD my bro bought with his first job. The sega CD was....kind of eh', not going to lie. First time I played a playstation was when my cousin brought his over and we was all like "oh snap this krazy ivan, darkstalkers, and battle arena toshinden game is the shit!"

I got a nintendo 64 for christmas in 1996, but super mario 64 was selling so crazy that I couldn't even get that game until my birthday in february. The only N64 games I was playing was whatever we managed to rent from blockbuster.....mario 64 was damn near always gone so I was playing nothing but killer instinct gold and wayne gretzky's hockey for a long-ass time.

This is also 1997 but the nintendo 64's game library was so week after that initial mario 64 rush ended that this gave me a punch to my fanboy gut......all those beloved franchises I loved on our NES and my SNES like mega man, final fantasy, and street fighter is now on this playstation and sega saturn, and god do I want to play that mega man X4 so bad because god damn zero is like, playable playable and not someone you called in for awhile like in X3. I got me a playstation with final fantasy 7 for christmas in 1997. Thanks dad for real.