9 Games to Know Me

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. Pokémon Heartgold I vividly remember playing Pokémon Blue in the back of the car at night while driving home from my aunt's house. I would have to lift the Game Boy up to the window and play whenever a streetlamp lit up the screen enough to see what I was doing. It is probably my earliest gaming memory, but I was a little bit young at the time to really get the full experience of the game. HeartGold came to me at the perfect time when I was old enough to fully attack the wealth of content that the game provided and also have my younger brother sharing the experience. HeartGold is the love letter to Gen 1 and 2. It's gorgeous, filled with content and is so well suited to the Nintendo DS. Pokémon in general has been such a constant in my life and HeartGold still stands strong in my eyes from Game Freaks releases. Today, between…