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The first thing that made me feel old was a stop to a video game store. Growing up I got my NES in Kindergarten, and I never looked back. Well between Kindergarten and the first two years of college I went from NES to PS2 with my older brothers Atari 2600 thrown in for good luck. That is a huge leap.
Well this happened when I was 26 two years ago. My local EB Games was cleaning out the back room so they had this strange Clearance sale. It was the first time I think I ever saw games for almost EVERY console in one store. I am talking 2600, Jaguar, Neo Geo, NES, 3Do and the list keeps going on. Well there were these buckets of controllers with two kids digging though them. I hear two things that cut though to my very soul.
First was when they found a Genisis controller. “Sega use to make controllers?” “I wonder what system there were for.” My first thought was COME ON THE DREAMCAST HAS ONLY BEEN DEAD FOR LIKE 5 OR 7 YEARS!!”
The second thing I heard that just hurt my heart. (Holding a NES controller) “Only two buttons? What can you do with this!” My first thought was “Well you can take down an alien civilization in Conrta, destroy a planet from the inside on Guardian Legend, Save the princess in Mario, be a Hero in Zelda and get body issues from that Yoga game with the mat.”
Really what I getting to is this: Please parents gag your children. I don’t think they are cute, or enjoy having them around. (Well unless they are babies, babies are always CUTE!)