Brainwashed
By SNES
When I was an innocent
little boy at the tender age of ten, I happened to come across
the future of console gaming. No, I'm not talking about bio-mechanical
Playstation, but the hottest thing in Finland in the year 1995:
Super Nintendo.
Super Nintendo.
I had gotten home from school and my buddy asked
me to come to his home and play what he called "Super Mario
Brothers 4". When I had gone back home and asked for permission
(don't ask - I'm in therapy over it) I went back to my buddy's
place. We went to his older brother's room and he inserted this
weird regtangular looking grey thing that I today know as a ‘cartridge’.
He turned the power on and I was amazed.
Finland.
It was Mario! But with more colours! My buddy
told me they had gotten this game console called ‘Super
Nintendo’. He told me in little kid terms that it was kind
of a sequel to the Nintendo 8-bit console. After he had played
it for a bit he gave me the controller. Because I had played with
the NES and the Mega Drive, I was a tad confused, but I quickly
got the hang of it, and really started to get high scores.
A limb.
Later, when I went home, I was still blown away
by the SNES. Unlucky for me, the funness had burrowed into my
brain like a mole burrows to the earth and caused a serious addiction
to the console. I started to look for other children of my age
who had the console of my dreams. They quickly branded me as a
"game freak" or as a "game maniac". Sometimes,
I had to lie in order to play SNES. In 1996, we moved to England
for 4 months. During that time, I could only play my Sega that
we had brought from Finland.
A clock.
My enthusiasm was cooled when we moved back
to Lahti. I started to go out more and not care about games so
much. At some point, we had to throw out our Sega due to malfunctions,
but that's another story.
Now, with a powerful machine (computer) to run
a SNES emulator, I can play the games I loved when I was a kid.
I'm still bitter to the people who called me names and branded
me a "game freak", but I now realise that because of
them, I'm a "game guru" in the neighbourhood I live
in. If someone asks me about SNES, I tell the same story you are
now reading.
MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU!!!
Limbclock,
December 2003.
- Start yer SNES emulation
here.
- limb_clock’s wondrous website.
- The reason this is here.
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