I have a lot of lovely family members. They are the nicest people you will know if you ever met any of them. The one that likes to be mentioned around the family get-togethers was my Great Abuela. They said she was the best person to be around and gives the best times in any of my family's lives. She bought my dad a Hacked Sega Genesis with Street Fighter and Sonic 2 with it and got my dad into gaming. She payed for my grandpa and Abuelita's trip to Vegas as she babysat my dad, aunt and uncle. And she even provided my Cousin the money and home to survive in Mexico when he got kicked out. She was such a nice person in the country of the savage!
What was cool about her was that she loved technology and video games. Although, it was the 80's at the time, she loved playing the NES and the Sega Genesis from time to time. She loved gaming so much that she opened her own shop for it. She sold so many games ported from Japan and hacked consoles that were basically considered black market products. She sold merchandise of games, backpacks in Mario theme, and even stuff only sold in Japan! She was such an awesome person to the family. She played and lived all the way to the early 2000's and loved games like Halo and Dead Rising. She experienced 3 generations pass and loved them so much.
As Mexico got worse, the shop got frequently robbed at gunpoint. She would lose hundred of dollars as people stole left and right. It wasn't long until she had to close shop since one guy almost shot her son, my Grampa. It was that time she wanted to visit the family she had in America and in 2007 was the year I met her in a Lazy-Boy chair playing CoD Multiplayer with my cousins. She was such a nice person when I met her. I was only 8 at the time and I thought she was a myth in the family, but everything they said was true. She was the nicest person in the world that I could name besides my Abuela.
I could hardly talk to her since I didn't speak spanish, but we communicated as much as we could. Most of the time we talked was in the middle of a match. She told me stories from what little english she knew about her life. She faced her brother's death when she was only a teenager, she jumped the wall with her best friend, and she even told me how she and her husband met. Many kids of that age of the time would have thought this was boring, but I thought she was the most interesting person. Sadly, that was the only day I would see her. She died in 2010 and everyone was devastated. I could not attend her wedding since the Border Crossing situation would be awful and the entry would have been a burden. I wish I could have. She was the best piece of family I knew.
My second cousin, Ruben was not well with her death, she made most of his life and got him into computers and Quake. She made up most of his life. So, to honor her, he bought the abandoned shop that was once my Great Abuela's. It's still has it's name too, even though it's a Computer Repair shop. El Jugador. I hope to visit it soon.
I hope you enjoyed this little story of mine! Do you have an elderly family member that plays as much as my Great Abuela? You can tell me, but as usual
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