The History of My Love for Cars

  It all started when I was six years old, my dad got me an Xbox One and the very first game I played was Forza Horizon 3. The game started at Byron Bay and you as the main character would go on to become the most famous racer in all of Australia, find abandoned cars, and race against other vehicles like trains, helicopters, speedboats, blimps, and even a fighter jet. When I first started the game I just explored the map and was enjoying ramming my Lamborghini Centenario into other traffic cars, but once I discovered how to kick start the racing adventure of the game (by beating a specific racer in a head to head challenge) I got my first official car, a BMW M4 Coupe. However, once my friend (Arjun) taught me about all the fast cars in the game and how to check the cars’ stats, then I started looking for speed demons. 

I immediately started to grind on the game and eventually managed to save up for my first hypercar, a Hennessey Venom GT, I then quickly went on to finish every race possible, buy more cars like two Koenigseggs (one was and Agera the other was a One:1), one Bugatti EB11, Zenvo ST1, multiple Ferraris including a Laferrari, Many Lamborghinis such as the Aventador and the Huracan, A Pagani Huayra and a Zonda R, Mclaren P1, an Aston Martin DB 5 (my favorite car), and many more. At the same time I also bought a new game called Need For Speed Rivals. I saw Arjun playing the game and I just loved the graphics and the action. Thus convincing me that Need for Speed Rivals was going to be a good game. At the time I enjoyed being a cop and destroying all the racers to bust them.

 I layed off for two years from playing these fascinating racing games because I became obsessed with my Nintendo switch, and games like Super Smash Bros, Pokemon, and Splatoon. Then in the summer of 2020 I once again started playing Need for Speed Rivals and the dream of cars was alive once more. I began playing as a racer this time and challenged myself to go to harder levels. When I was in eighth grade I got back on Forza Horizon 3 and finally finished the story line in Byron Bay and then moved on to Blizzard Mountain. Here too, I finished the story and became a well known racer in the rural town found on the ice cold mountains. When the summer of eighth grade finally arrived, I bought Forza Horizon 5. I began the game with full excitement and although I was expecting the same feeling from the game as from Forza Horizon 3, I just felt bored, because I felt the story line was too short . Even though I loved the graphics, the characters, the new cars that were in store, and the fact that we could buy houses now, I just did not appreciate that it was such a fast moving game.

 For example, at the beginning of the game I already got a Corvette Zo6 as my starter car, and in two days I got my first supercar, a Lamborghini Huracan EVO, and even though I got the hot wheels expansion and I do enjoy the adventure and the insane speed and loopty loops that make just driving in this map so fun I just feel like the story line was too simple. I still appreciate the beauty of cars because of all the knowledge on the cars' history and the general fun facts in Donut Media and Flatlife that I never knew. I even continued to play Need for Speed Rivals and finally finished the storyline for the racing career. I fervently hope that my passion for cars continues to thrive, as I firmly believe that such a love is far from being extinguished.