My favorite video game is Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Conquest on the Super Nintendo. I got it in a shop’s bargain bucket when I was a kid. Everything about it interested me, because especially at the time it came out the graphics were great (it used pre-rendered computer generated graphics for the backgrounds and characters). I really enjoyed the gameplay – it’s a platforming game – and the music was brilliant in it as well. There was also the fact I could never complete it as a kid. I had to pack everything up and put it away at some point and when I found the box of games four years ago I came back determined to finish it and eventually I did.

The other games I had were the standard ones for the Super Nintendo, like Super Mario World and Mario Kart which were both classics. I also bought from the bargain bucket a load of rubbish old tennis games which I played for about a month and never played again. After that I was really into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater for the Playstation One, mainly because of the soundtrack, there were some great bands on there like Bad Religion. It was used for music discovery in a way as I learned about then current bands who were still gigging around and releasing records and stuff. You came across music you wouldn’t normally come across, you know? The only console I have plugged in at home is the SNES, so I don’t really play anything that modern sadly.

Sal Vitro play Whelan’s, Dublin (March 14)