Banjo-Kazooie is one of those games I played as a kid but never owned. By the time the Nintendo 64 was released, more of my friends had started playing games, one in particular would turn into a rival of sorts. There was very little crossover in terms of the games we owned so we would often end up swapping games for a time. Banjo-Kazooie was one of those games and from the first time I played it I fell in love with the world it depicted.
The first game I ever played was Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Sega Master System II, which was also the first console I ever had. At the time I didn't know anyone else with a games console, I was born in 1988 and grew up in the 90s. The aftermath of the Video Game crash of the 1980s had left gaming the pursuit of a minority, partly due to the wider impact of the economic troubles of the 1980s that left a lot of people in the 90s broke to put it bluntly.
