Yes ! At the age of 13 I was already a top console games Champion in Malaysia. Our homes were lined with trophies from every tournament and championship in the last 3 years. Me and my 2 brothers were the most popular gamers in the country simply because we won at every tournament from ATARI to COLECO VISION consoles basically from every games genre we were the best - Donkey Kong, Sega F1 and Centipede.
Were we that good ?
Basically we were better than other kids simply because our mom allows us to play games non-stop everyday. So practise makes perfect and we became damn good at it.
Then there was the National Championship and that year we had very strong competitors whom knows more about the games tricks than us. There were 2 key competitors we pointed out among ourselves - (a.) A family whom their dad also encourages them to win the Chanpionship and had helped them analys the game. (b.) A group of non-schooling kids whom hangs out at the shopping playing the game everyday for hours.
They had better play mechanics.
We lost at the first 4 state tournaments as only the No.1 gets to go to the finals. Looking back it's crazy ... we wanted so badly to be in the finals so we traveled to 3 different states to make sure we get into the finals. After we got into the finals we knew we need to understand what's their play mechanics are or else we may still lose at the finals.
We had a plan.
Become friends with both competitors and get them to teach us their secrets. Being friend with the kids is easy, we took them for good dinners and ais creams ... ta da ... they shared their game play with us. Then come the family which it took us a little more time but this time we challenge them while my 2 other brothers study his move.
Guess who won the Championship finals?
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