My most important video game moments

So i was just thinking about formative moments in my development, there are normal ones too i swear, but some are with video games. 

So the first one i remember is playing super mario galaxy 2 (we got the sequel first for some reason) in 2013 at the farm we lived on for a year. And i got to world 3, to those who are uncultured, world 3 features piano music and a beautiful background with shooting stars, it was such an emotional moment for me for some reason (i was 7, so makes sense) and i remember actually crying a bit (AGAIN, i was 7 and a hyper emotional kid) and i still remember world 3 as my favorite.

Second one that comes to mind that is a specific one was around 8 years later in i wanna say 2020-2021, and that was with splatoon 2, specifically the dlc for that game, and SPOILERS there's a secret bossfight, which was a bit challenging, because the target wasn't big, it was like fighting another player exept that player has cheats on. It's not that difficult once you realize the patterns of attack and i actually started going to that fight to warm up before ranked at one point, it helped with aim practice. But anyway the important memory i had was winning that fight the first time. The final phase has a jump attack thingy, splatoon players know what a splashdown is, but basically there's a series of splashdowns you gotta dodge and then you can fire, BUT sometimes if their special meter gets full and they can just splashdown in front of you, so that means that the target you were just shooting at jumps up super fast and is going to land right in front of you and you're pretty much guaranteed a game over from that because you're literally in the splash zone. But you can cancel it with fast enough reflexes, you have only a second or two to react, but i remember winning by canceling a splashdown like that, which i had never done before btw, and i just started at the bright screen that told me that i won, i was so happy.

These aren't really specific ones but a lot of times i got highscores and records, and those always made me feel nice. To me a high score meant "You're the best at this, nobody else is better and you're good at something and valuable" it didn't really mean anything in retrospect, i was mostly competing with my family, i did have friends but none of them really played games and i usually had to let them win anyway so they would continue playing, spending time with someone doing something i enjoy meant more than winning, although sometimes i was a bit salty that i wasn't allowed to go all out, but anything for not being alone ig. My dad was my actual rival on games, he actually knew how to play, because my sister didn't really always grasp the mechanics and my mom wouldn't even touch a controller. So again it just felt like one of those things that only me and my dad understood, and he usually was the one to congratulate me on my achievements.

Which brings me to another fond memory, again with splatoon 2, specifically the dlc. I couldn't sleep a lot and i kinda stopped going to school because of that, and other reasons. So i would just play games on most nights, my mom would be livid about it, but my dad accepted it later on, mom never did. So often i would play games in the living room and explain the mechanics to my dad, because he didn't really sleep either. So i would be playing the dlc and winning levels and then showing my dad, and he wouldn't just brush me off, but would actually look up from his computer and acknowledge my hobbies. He was always the one defending the importance of video games as well, saying that they aren't brainrot and actually develop coordination skills and reflexes.

Those are the ones i remember the most vividly, there's a bucnh more but those are mostly with friends from discord so it gets really convoluted really fast.

I did have fun playing "drunk overwatch" with friends :D

We would drink while gaming ever so often, which just doubled the fun for me.

Might make a post about other formative experiences at some point, i was a weird kid who enjoyed burning stuff for fun and other things like that, so there's a lot to talk about.

That is all, happy new years everyone!! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)