When Canon and I got Super Mario Bros. 2, it was just about the most exciting thing in the world. We were limited on Nintendo time back then, half-an-hour a day (I don’t remember if that was half-an-hour each or half-an-hour total…either way, thanks Mom, it probably saved us from becoming more of video game zombies than we already were).
When we went to bed that night, we pretended to fall asleep, waiting for mom and dad to go to sleep so we could sneak downstairs and play Mario all night. Around 2 in the morning, dad came bleary-eyed into the family room and told us to go to bed. I thought that was going to be the end of us, but he never mentioned it the next day. Good times…
JC
September 22, 2009
Oh, my gosh, I’m so sorry you had to be the first. We meant well…
danelaverty
September 22, 2009
I’m not being sarcastic when I thank you, mom. I mean it — you did a great job. I don’t know if you appreciate how much.
JC
September 26, 2009
I am so proud of each of my kids. I don’t know if you are wonderful because of us or in spite of us, I just know you are wonderful.
Porter
October 2, 2009
I have mixed feelings about those old Nintendo games. I never had a Nintendo, so I only got to play them occasionally at friends’ houses. And invariably, they were sick and tired of the games that I wanted to play, and weren’t interested in playing them. So just got glimpses of, say Super Mario Brothers, and was always incompetent at it.