Super Nintendo and me: growing up, recession and role-playing adventures

Game developer Rebekah Saltsman could never get near a console when her brothers were around - then the Snes arrived

I don't remember a time we didn't have video games in the house.

I grew up in Gregory, Michigan, a small town in the middle of nowhere; a town that literally borders Hell. That's Hell, Michigan. I wish I was kidding. My dad was a second shift supervisor at a General Motors plant in Detroit. He always wanted to have the latest expensive things; we owned an early home PC and he'd bring home these floppy discs filled with games - they would trade them around at his office. My mom worked as a secretary and later a substitute teacher and a city postal carrier - she learned how to program at college. She made sure we all had access to the computer, even though my sister and I were super little and there were six of us fighting to use it.