This fucking thing is like 33 years old and has survived two dozen moves, some halfway across the country, two flooded apartments, one fire, and two robberies. The DMG is my original one I got for like my 8th birthday. Got the kids together for a quick family photo. We spent the weekend dodging many possessed pieces of luggage, but I don't think my dreams.of becoming an fgc prodigy ever really recovered He took it to blockbuster and traded it in for Home Alone 2, his favorite movie We would master these techniques at home and the return to the arcades as GODSĪnd then next weekend rolled around, we showed up for our sleepover, to find that Leon had already beaten the single player mode as Ryu, briefly fiddled around with the other characters, and then decided there wasnt much more to the game. We planned on seeing him the next weekend and spent our time analyzing the GamePro tips and tricks magazine that revealed EVERY secret move input and how to do special skills like BLOCKING and THROWING.

Mom actually bought it (my brother stressed that this was the only game Leon would want/need for the system), and Leon seemed happy to get it. as a birthday present for our cousin Leon, who only lived a few blocks away, and had a SNES connected to his own TV in his bedroom Which didn't quite match up to the arcade cabinet experienceįinally my brother hatched a plan to get our Mom to buy the 'near arcade perfect' SNES version of Street Fighter 2. Ultimately this worked out pretty well for us, and we got to experience classics like the wizardry series and Sierra point and clicks and technical marvels like Doom and Descent while other kids were still on the NESīut it did start to suck when trying to play arcade games - we were both excited about street fighter 2 when it came to arcades, so much so that I spent $50 of my allowance on the PC version. So growing up, my family was kinda strange - my dad worked in electronics and wanted my brother and I to understand computers, so from an early age we each had computers that we put together ourselves (mine largely from my brother's hand -me-downs)īut what my dad didn't let us have is consoles, mainly because the good living room TV was his, and he didn't want sports interrupted by Mario I know that I played Home Alone 2 for hours at a stretch, but when I look up footage of it now, I go, '.How?' Yet it's hard for me to conceive of the games in their totality, what it meant for me to really ENGAGE with them at the time. I have weirdly vivid sense memories of small segments of each of those games - 30-second chunks I can conjure with recall that feels perfect.

My mainstays on the brick Gameboy were Tetris, Wario Land, Adventure Island, and Home Alone 2.

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