HOW CRIS GOT INTO VIDEO GAMES. I grew up in a small town in southern Chile. Being surrounded by nature and amazing landscapes I mostly enjoyed my time playing outside, always imagining that I was some epic hero of those fantasy stories that amazed me so much by that time. Even though my father always encouraged me to do outdoors activities, I started getting more and more interested into that little black box in which I could experience these worlds that would go beyond imagination. Around 1989 my parents got an Atari 2600 as a present but never used it. I would play with it as a toy and I would look at the cartridges thinking what would be like to see them on a screen. One day, when I was about 6 years old an aunt brought her Original Nintendo to our house for a few days. That was my introduction to video game consoles, being Mario Bros 3, my first video game experience. Y ears passed and while my friends at school would play Pokemon Red or Blue on their game bo