Mourad Elmouh

Hi there! My name is Jeremy. As you might have guessed, I’m nuts about Video Games. I’ll never forget the very first video game(s) I was exposed to. My brother-in-law’s PONG game from the late 70’s intrigued me; with the little white rectangles bouncing the little white blip to each other across the screen.

At that time, the sound effects came from the Game Console itself, NOT from the TV. It was extremly stripped down by today’s standards, but back then, I played it with the same enthusiasm that the young man did playing PONG in that Diet Pepsi Commercial!

In the early 80’s my sister and brother-in-law bought an early Atari. It was LOADS of fun! It had a Race Car game, a Chess Game (which my brother-in-law loved to play), Space Invaders, and of course, PacMan. Each Video Game Cartridge was intoxicatingly addictave, but especially Space Invaders and PacMan.

I’ll never forget how my Sister introduced Space Invaders to me. She explained I played the little green turrets on the ground, and I had to shoot the “monsters” that kept coming closer and closer. From time to time, a UFO would hover over and give me extra points if I was skillful enough to bullseye it.

PacMan was the most fun, with it’s delightful simplicity that is timeless to this day! I’ll never forget how it compared with the Arcade version — the PacMan would go eh-eh-eh-eh! in the Atari Console, and the PacMan in the Arcade game would go waka-waka-waka-waka! I loved out-maneuvering those nasty rainbow coloured ghosts, while hating being devoured. Getting major payback by eating the Power Pellot was a highlight of the game.

Later on in the 80’s my father introduced me to The Colecovision, truly a step above Atari in the Video Game System Hierarchy. I remember seeing it played for the first time by him, he was playing Space Fury - with the nasty green cyclopian alien commander taunting him. The variety and complexity of the games made the hours melt away.

I finally got on the bandwagon and purchased a Nintendo Entertainment System with my savings and allowance. Boy! Did that Game System blow me away! Never before did I feel so bedazzled by a moustached Italian Plumber stomping on evil mushroom creatures, ferocious Turtle Soldiers, taking Enhancing Power-Ups and Exploring Pipes. Super Mario Bros. was my first Nintendo Game, and I was love struck at first play!

Of course, there were countless other games I played on the NES, as well