I' ve been thinking about my pals recently and I have come to realise that many of the great moments I have spent with them are related to video games. Of course, these will never beat the nights spent playing Poker, the downtown escapades or the football (soccer) matches we' ve had but I have many great memories of playing multiplayer games on different platforms and at the Arcades. For example, we would spend many nights playing the NHL games for the Genesis, or many days playing Mario Kart, Double Dragon and Street Fighter on the SNES. All those games were played with different persons every time and they' re all linked to the personality and memories that I have of these friends. It' s almost as if each game was specifically related to one dude!
Some people I' ve known are just a blur in my mind, and it goes back to the days of the NES, there are these two guys and I can't remember anything about them except the fact that we played Hockey games and Duck Hunt on their NES system. I will probably never see them again and their names will be forgotten someday but the memories of gaming will be there forever...
When we would go out to the amusement park or downtown, many hours were spent in the Arcades or at this place that was called the Megadome Nintendo. They were showcasing lots of new games for the SNES and I came back to it several times a day, as I preferred spending time button mashing rather than enjoying a good ride. Safety is a concern for me and I' m a little bit scared to ride in roller-coasters too! Anyways, in the Arcades we would throw countless quarters in different slots like the Virtua Striker machine, NHL Open Ice or the shooting game Time Crisis. Those were really good times, we would go at it forever whether it was in versus or co-op mode, we were unbeatable! I would like to come back to these games (especially Open Ice) someday to see what effect it would have on me. Even If I don' t enjoy them as much as I did before, they will still be related to many of the friends I had and will be a way to re-visit my past whenever I will feel like it...
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