Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

one fine day sometime in 1999, a playstation entered the teh household.
they were still living in cascadale then.
but little is remembered of the days when the little grey box sat there in that apartment. sure, it had its stints with the kids, had its run ins with the uncles whenever they came...but it remained as just a little grey box then. insignificant and barely noticed. hardly appreciated.
those were the days of horned owl and adidas power soccer and pandemonium....
however, all that changed when the tehs moved to tampines...
it all happened that one fateful night.
everybody was over at uncle lennox's house, nobody remembers for what.
i remember the deep 4 metre pool...it frightened me.
i also remember metal gear solid.
yes, it had to boil down to this again didn't it?
metal gear solid. uncle lennox had it on the playstation and he asked little ernie if he wanted to try...
"sure. why not?", i thought to myself then...
i found it kind of weird that you couldn't jump in the game. but that didn't matter. a few rounds of vr training and the opening sequence was all that it took to make little ol' impressionable me fall in love with the game.
that sealed it.
from that day on, that little grey box became....

THE little grey box.

after metal gear solid, everything else just fell into place.
the great games started showing up one after the other.
megaman legends, final fantasy 7, front mission3, army men 3d, medal of honour...etc

but as with all great consoles...we all knew that one day,
THE little grey box will be no more.
was it to end there? was nothing to come after it? did that spell the end of little ol' ernie's adventures with THE little grey box?

ah...
it seems fate had other things in mind, for his adventures were all but far from over.
FOR...
from beneath the ashes of THE little grey box came....
(with enthusiasm exceeding that of THE little grey box's when it first entered the teh household...)
THE not-so-little black box!
and thus began the age(and the reign) of the mighty ps2!

yes. those were glorious days indeed.
i remember the first few games that came along with it back from kl...oni and fur fighters.
moderately entertaing games...
nothing is heard of them now.
"it" came shortly after them and they were soon relegated to the shadows of "it"
i spent many hours on "it"...many fun hours of my life....immersed in the world of "it"
yes. what a marvel it was to behold "it" when "it" was first released. how "it" had me hooked...
what else could "it" be but metal gear solid? TWO.
finally mgs2 had arrived.
the game that made the ps2 necessary to have. the reason the ps2 EXISTED was so mgs2 could be played on it(and then after that so mgs3 could be played as well)
the ps2's proudest moments were undoubtedly proud. often outshining the original little grey box on so many counts.
beautiful games like ico and shadow of the colossus made their debut on the ps2. exciting games like ratchet and clank and jak and daxter and devil may cry and onimusha and tenchu and zone of the enders the list goes on and on and on.
it was the undisputed king, the ps2 was.
however i will not forget the days of THE little grey box. no sireee bob, not a chance i will forget that little grey box.
for in my heart, nothing can replace mgs and ff7.
brilliant as games have been since the days of 32 bit.
nothing has so enthralled me like mgs and ff7. i have been enthralled, yes. but not like it was with those games, no....never.

ah, but alas! yet again, even the mighty monolith that was the ps2 could not withstand the sands of time, and the reign of the ps2 came to an end a couple of years ago. utterly inevitable, that it was.

next-gen consoles entered the market and the days of the not-so-little black box were no more.
(although it must be said that still, now, there are a remnant of ps2 faithfuls playing games on that black box. i would definitely be among them were it not for MY black box being in the house of another at this point in time(do you hear me mslee?))
in this era of next-gen consoles however, it seems the 3rd incarnation of the playstation, the playstation 3(now a big black rounded box thing) couldn't keep up with the competition. no longer the invincible powerhouse it was before.

the 360 was the first to enter the market and that meant that it drew first blood, getting months of market mononpoly until the other consoles were released.
the wii on the other hand, though coming out later(and sounding remotely obscene), appealed extensively to the masses and flew off the shelves faster than anything that had come before it.
the ps3 though...ah, it had a humble beginning.
barely making any waves when it first arrived, it almost seemed as if nobody gave a hoot about the ps3.

well. things are finally changing... more games are being released. reviews are picking up. the sheer power of mgs4 and gta4 alone on the ps3 helped sales greatly.
but still, nobody can deny, the ps3 is behind the other 2 consoles in terms of sales. for how much longer? nobody knows.

but you know what?

i don't care.

the ps3 can lose the console wars for all i care.
the games can be lousy.
the graphics can be under par.

for have i not proven myself to be a ps and mgs faithful?
and now in the attic i have a big black rounded box thing waiting to be played.
and i could care less if others insist that the ps3 is inferior.

sell my ps3 for a 360 to play gears of war and halo?
bah! not on my life!
and to the "enlightened" few that did make the silly decision of selling their ps3 for the white box from the states, here's all i've got to say:

infidels.

haha.
in the end, i guess i'm still a console gamer at heart.
nothing like a good game to while the hours of my life away....heh.