The year I got the original Gameboy, came with Tetris and Gargoyle's Quest. Must have been 1991 or so, was probably the happiest Christmas of my life. Incredible how I still vividly remember that morning, more than 30 years later. I opened the gifts and then we spent the day at my cousins’ eating and playing, I was the youngest among my cousins and it was so cool hanging out with them, slightly older kids, we stayed there from morning til midnight. What I wouldn’t do to live that day again, perhaps paying more attention to the adult conversations happening at the dinner table which I completely ignored as a young kid back then.

My parents have been so good and kind to me, we were never poor but money was always tight with my dad being a small business owner with some ups and many downs, and yet they never failed to provide memorable gifts when I was a kid. I was very happy back then, but just as an adult I came to appreciate the sacrifices they must have made for me.