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Oh man, time to clear out the dust from that part of my brain.
Lets see, I remember PC Gamer being a big part of my life growing up, my uncle fixed computers as a hobby so those demo disks were everywhere. I have fond memories of my brother playing the hard as nails heart of darkness game and not so fond memories of a city builder that had angry tornadoes in it, I got to scared of the teeny tiny tornadoes that I freaked out and begged my uncle to destroy the disk. (I was scared of the oddest things as a child.)
I also used to read my brothers Kzone magazines and I was addicted to knowing everything about Pokémon pearl and diamond prior to its release. I must have reread the Pokémon D+P section a billion million times that I dreamt about playing that game. Pokémon was such serious business with my friends, we used to gather round and watch another one of my friends play his Japanese release game of Black and White before it got an English translation just to 'ooh' and 'ahh' at it.
I also remember this magazine that we had in the country just called Nintendo(?) and when it featured an article on the chrono trigger ds release, I slept with that magazine under my pillow in anticipation. (And when it finally came out, I loved that game to pieces.)
Lastly there was my very treasured American Anime magazine. It was an imported magazine so it was expensive but I lucked out that day and my mother let me buy it. On the front there was a giant picture of Kagome hugging Inuyasha's waist because the featured article was about the Kaguya's mirror movie. (I have no clue because I never saw Inuyasha.) It also had lots of 'teen'y things like lists of hot anime men. This was even more of a big deal to me because anime was a thing of scarcity growing up. Either you woke up early enough to watch it before school, or you were lucky to catch it on the SBS channel. Sometimes I had to listen to my brother fill me in to what happened on sailor moon/hamtaro/DBZ/yugi-oh that morning and take him for his word, even when he tells me that a giant space ship came and abducted all the sailor scouts except sailor moon and left her crying. (That's a real episode by the way, I was emotionally devastated for a ten year old.)
