Teen ZUer here, currently 15 years old and going to high school.

Would I like being an adult? No, just simply no: life gets harder with each step you take, and I already don't like high school. Sure, I'd have loads of money (compared to what I now get) to buy consoles and games, but I'd have less time to enjoy them.

I went to elementary at the age of 4, which was something I really liked: at the time I saw school as a challenge, even though I always got the highest grades whilst doing practically nothing. Perhaps that was what I liked about it: the simplicity. I had more than enough time to play videogames, which I started at age 2 or something (as far as I can remember), ah, the wonderful times I've had with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Megadrive we borrowed from my uncle.

Then I got my Gameboy Color, I think I got it for Christmas while I was 4 or 5. The first game for that I've actively played was Pokemon Red: defeating the league to much to be counted, catching them all over and over again, crying in my sleep because my game got erased AGAIN because it had fallen on the floor... The games I liked best on that console were LADX and OoS, I continued to actively play those even during the time I had a GBA and GCN.

Then, in 1997 on my 5th birthday, a miracle happened: I got a SNES! No other console has even had that much of an impact on my, nor do I think one ever will: I remember everything related to my first days of playing Super Mario World. I also played my friend's ALttP during that time, but I didn't like it that much yet: platformers were my way of life, and SMW and the DKC's were my objects of worship. Somewhere in 1998 how

Somewhere during 1999, I got a Playstation. It was the biggest mistake I ever made: the only games I liked on it were Megaman X4-6, Spyro 3 and Alundra. I prefered playing Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, OoT, MM, SM64 and MK64 on my friends N64, which is something I did often...

A little after my 10th birthday, I got myself a GCN and TWW LE... Ah, TWW and OoT really gave me one of the best summers I've ever had. Although later GCN games like Metroid Prime, Tales of Symphonia and others gave me more fun...

However, then came high school, I really disliked doing homework...I hated French (while I was somewhat good at it) and later loathed German (I also sucked at it). However, I still did all my homework and remained one of the best...that is until I discovered I can barely do anything at all related to school and still be promoted to the next class (barely, but still). I still ocasionally do some important school stuff, and at those times I realize that I've lost my touch...my so called "warrior's spirit": "What challenge? It's a bother, a waste of my freaking time!" Sometimes I wished I still was the nerdy student I once was...

*Present age*
Nothing special, I got myself all Nintendo console sans the N64, and played most important games.

Thinking back, I think I'd rather wish to be an adult: "I wish to look back upon this time and think I had it easy, because when looking back the past will always be better than the present..."

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