Technology does not wait for anyone, as newer consoles were on the verge of popularity, at least to me. The new offering from Sega and their console, Genesis, gave a new boost in the presentation of graphics. The blue hedgehog known as Sonic could one handedly siphoned my attention as I imagined myself zipping through the levels easily. Without much notice and my continuing love of Sonic, my family continued to stay devoted to the Sega brand of video games. With their new console, Sega Saturn, it appeared that three dimensional graphics were the start of a new revolution in gaming. Sega’s NiGHTS into Dreams game completely grabbed my attention with the belief that I was really in the dream. The game was a technological revolution at the time, showcasing one of the first games to pull gamers into a new dimension where users were no longer stuck to side scroller games of the past. Paralleling Marxist’s commodity fetishism (Marx, 232), my obsession with the Sega products removed the denotative notion of an electronic entertainment console to become a "checkpoint" or milestone in my electronic chronology.

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