Old Games…New Memories
I am not much of a gamer these days. I have a copy of Sims 2 that I’ll play every once in awhile, throw in a game of Wall Street Raider or if I’m really bored, I might wander around Second Life but I haven’t really got the appeal of that game up to this point. Mostly though my gaming adventures mostly consists of a few card games or a good Sudoku puzzle. I have no big desire to rush out a buy a new sparking Playstation 3 or Wii. I did get cheated out a free Wii once, but thats a story for another post.
Its not to say I wouldn’t play one of those systems probably if I had one, but the desire just isn’t there. Even when my brother lived with me that had a Playstation 2, the times I did play I mostly stuck to one game. I do have some fond memories of games past though. I remember growing up with my original Nintendo playing games such as Wall Street Kid, Techmo Football or Bionic Commando (and of course Super Mario Brothers). We did upgrade to a Super Nintendo and I had a few games to play on there as well, but the memories of those are not so vivid. I am sure Halo is a great game with awesome graphics, but I think sometimes I’d still rather play Maniac Mansion or SimCity.
I did get my old SNES games out that I still have and played a few, it was still fun to play them. They are past their prime and I probably wouldn’t play them very often, but its nice to take a stroll down the old days back and relive a few memories.