
I went into Pokemon Sun expecting a good game, but I certainly wasn’t expecting to be blown away. Or it was, until five days ago when I began Pokemon Sun. And that was the last time I felt that way about a Pokemon game. As I played that game that night, I experienced a gaming sensation that was unlike any I had ever experienced. Generously, he allowed me to play for a while, probably understanding full well that all I was going to do, if anything, was raise his team a few levels. And he was raising a Geodude on Pokemon Gold. He was wielding a Game Boy Pocket, utilizing only the stadium lights to illuminate his faint screen. I was at a high school football game with my family, when I ran into one of my friends from church. And right along with these memories, is the first time I ever played a Pokemon game.


The first time I played Fallout 3, it was just to kill some time before my mom took me to my grandparents’ house.

I remember playing what would become my favorite game of all time, Spyro Year of the Dragon, for the first time at my friend Kade Spier’s house like it was yesterday. I was three years old, and it was the first level of Star Wars Shadows of the Empire. I’ll never forget the first time my dad ever let me play one. Jay-Z once famously wrote that you often remember where you were when you first heard your favorite songs.
