random memory.

i had a chance to play the nintendo wii today (hey, it's not my fault i have a 13 year old cousin who worships consoles).

i'm in shock. it's fanbloodytastic. i must have spent all afternoon swinging the remote back and forth. it's moments like this that using certain colloquial lebanese phrases (which include body parts) is the best way to express adulation (sorry, it just looks really vulgar when written).

as a child, i never really liked the sega machine, never had a gameboy (and didn't enjoy it to begin with since it was b&w), was a master of Atari, and then got introduced to a nintendo knockoff (called pegasus, which i think was a japanese version) that another cousin of mine had. most memories including super mario brothers and other games are blurred, except for one ...

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... this was early 90's, and i was spending a few weeks of summer at my cuz's house in aajaltoun. we were playing super mario bros. III, and we knew where the shortcuts were, how to skip worlds, when to jump, yada yada yada - in short, this was something we had spent so much time playing that we were mario and luigi.

then, one day, we reached the 8th world (out of 8), had almost reached the end (something we hadn't done together while playing it as a two-player game), and we were excited.

and then ... (drum roll) ... the electricity got cut.

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it was a traumatic experience.

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posted by Lazarus, 5:48 PM