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krwlz · 12-03-2004, 07:37 AM

Being a whopping 19, I never had video games as a kid, until we got a computer, and I played those with some regularity for a while. But more often then not, idle time resulted in myself and my brother doing something outside, in the woods, or honestly, reading a book.

Part of that was due to the fact that if we had free time, and my parents were home, my father had us outside helping him on various projects, from firewood, to building boats, to clearing brush.
(He claims that he could have done it twice as fast on his own, but we needed to learn so... )

I bought my first console station at age 17, a game cube... Played heavily for a while, mostly during the winter months, and now I hardly ever touch it.

I loved my legos, and minus them, we used to build pretty elaborate castles out of carboard and tape. Many a stuffed animal exited the window with a make shift paper parachute, and then there were the forts made of rope blankets and beds that spanned our room.

Guess I was lucky.

12-03-2004, 07:37 AM	#15 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	Being a whopping 19, I never had video games as a kid, until we got a computer, and I played those with some regularity for a while. But more often then not, idle time resulted in myself and my brother doing something outside, in the woods, or honestly, reading a book. Part of that was due to the fact that if we had free time, and my parents were home, my father had us outside helping him on various projects, from firewood, to building boats, to clearing brush. (He claims that he could have done it twice as fast on his own, but we needed to learn so... ) I bought my first console station at age 17, a game cube... Played heavily for a while, mostly during the winter months, and now I hardly ever touch it. I loved my legos, and minus them, we used to build pretty elaborate castles out of carboard and tape. Many a stuffed animal exited the window with a make shift paper parachute, and then there were the forts made of rope blankets and beds that spanned our room. Guess I was lucky.