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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I’m gonna break the rules and name more than one.

    Super Metroid

    Link to the Past I beat it with my mom as a kid. I’d love to go back and just be a kid who loves his mom playing that game again.

    Ocarina of Time My mom and I snuck and opened the Christmas present every evening after my dad went to bed. We were at the forest temple when I actually opened it for Christmas and pretended to be surprised.

    Wind Waker I was so disappointed over the cartoon graphics I almost didn’t play it. Once the game won me over I fell in love with everything about it.

    Twilight Princess My first Zelda as an adult living on my own. I bought it on GameCube and played it with my ex. We had no cable, no internet, no phone. It was the only entertainment we had (video games) and it was an experience that made us closer.

    Symphony of the Night I just fucking love that game.

    World of Warcraft I want to go back and play with my son. We did arenas and we were an unstoppable team. Some of the best nights of my life were spent side by side playing WotLK and Cata.

    I could go on but someone is standing here bugging me now. Take care folks.


  • My first Gameboy…man. I’m not proud of that.

    I had been begging my mom for one, and she just couldn’t afford it.

    At breakfast one day (school) I seen one of the rich kids rocking his Gameboy. Battery pack attached to his belt, rad case hanging from his backpack. I was so jealous.

    A few days later he snuck it out in class and the teacher took it and stuck it in her desk.

    It was lunchtime. I waited until I was the last person in the class. I ran to the desk, snatched it, and then watched for them to disappear down the hall.

    I ran to the bag room and stuck it in my backpack. I started to run to catch up with the class and it hit me, “they’re gonna search us all.” I got it back out of my bag, seen the hall was empty and ran for my brother’s class.

    I found his backpack and stuck it at the bottom under his things.

    When we got on the bus I raced up to him and said, “do not open your bag. I put something in there. We’re in big trouble if anyone sees it.” He was white as a ghost the whole ride home.

    When we got in we ran up to our room. I got it out and opened the case. Ren and Stimpy, Mario, Zelda, Contra, Mega Man, Mortal Kombat. I had hit the jackpot.

    I played Contra (Operation C) all evening.

    My brother kept giving me a hard time, “You stole that. That kid is going to be very sad.” At first I brushed him off, but then it started wearing on me.

    Fuck! I’ll take it back.

    I thought, “I’ll lie and say I stole it from the teacher for him.” My brother said, “Just tell the truth. Maybe you won’t get in trouble.”

    I decided to tell the truth and hope he wouldn’t rat me out.

    He beat the piss out of me on the playground.

    Less than a week later one of my best friends got one as a gift from a family member for her birthday. She already had one, knew I wanted one, so she gave me her old one with a copy of Zelda and Mario Land 2, the only two games I ever owned for it. She now had a rad red Gameboy and I had her gray original. I still have it to this day. It doesn’t work any more, but I won’t throw it out. She actually gave me the red one too when she stopped playing it. I traded it for every Nirvana album when my mom threw mine out. She was very religious and worried that Kurt Cobain would be a bad influence (he was, still love the music though).

    Later when someone stole my Gamegear, I felt like I deserved it. I traded my football equipment for that thing and I loved it.

    Edit: I forgot the whole reason I replied in the first place haha. My cousin got the printer for Christmas. That was a boring story any way. Glad I got distracted.


  • Me too. I’m in no position to play that game now, which kind of breaks my heart. I’ve got some really really rare mounts on there.

    The best part for me was playing PvP with my son. He’s 25 now. During Cata we were an unstoppable arena force.

    He got a gaming laptop and I got a Steam deck. We were talking about jumping on a Cata private server recently.

    Both of us are so busy that it’s unlikely to happen.

    I’d give anything to go back and have him beside me in that old living room playing arenas.

    When I’m on my deathbed, that will be one of the things I think about the most as being a great thing from my life.

    I’d give anything to raise him again.

    I have a lot of kids and none of them are my favorite, but because I adopted him and he looked up to me so much we had everything in common and did everything together. I’ll miss it until my last day. Good lord time flies.