This is The Guardian.
Today, the story of Nintendo.
My earliest memories of video games, it's not even playing them.
It's sitting and reading magazines about Nintendo
while my mum was doing the big shop in Sainsbury's.
and just imagining what video games must be like and how in my imagination they were the greatest things that had ever been invented by humans.
I finally got a Super Nintendo when I was about six for Christmas after just a lot of begging,
probably two years of begging at that point.
And the first game I played was Super Mario World.
I think I remember that Christmas.
I think we came up as it kind of was being unboxed, actually.
I remember the sheer and utter joy in that household that Christmas.
Oh, and as it happens, she's also my cousin.
So when I was 11, my biggest dream in all the world was to go to the Pokémon World Championships,
which were going to be held in Sydney.
and battle out to be the very best.
And we now have the world champion of Pokémon 2000.
He is from the United Kingdom.
He is Daron von Furan!
I didn't get there, tragically.