Thursday, February 19, 2004
Feeling nostalgic? Buy a Nintendo T-shirt.
My brother sent me this link today. It's for a clothier that sells 80's icons, from movies to television and videogames. The old t-shirts for Nintendo products were really the ones that got to me.
It's appropriate that he sent it to me, and also that I should open my blog with this link, for a couple reasons, really.
I've seen the high school youth at my church wearing clothes with old Nintendo controllers on them. I don't consider myself as old, but I wonder if they really know how a five-hour Ninja Gaiden session thrashes the pads of your thumbs.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt; it is more than likely they've seen Back to the Future, or the Goonies, or heard a couple songs from Def Leppard's Pyromania, or anything else from the 80s that makes a flashy knit cap. But videogames have aged so differently. Sometimes I plug in the old Atari 7800 and play through those old games. Some, like Joust, always suck me in. Others leave me wondering how I could have ever played them for hours at a time.
So maybe those kids at my church aren't missing so much since they've missed their chance to play "Werewolf: The Last Warrior", but maybe some day I'll have them over, blow out the cartridge to get it to work one last time, and see what they think.
My brother sent me this link today. It's for a clothier that sells 80's icons, from movies to television and videogames. The old t-shirts for Nintendo products were really the ones that got to me.
It's appropriate that he sent it to me, and also that I should open my blog with this link, for a couple reasons, really.
- He's been my companion growing up in a digital age, and as rather unsporty children we grew up renting videogames together in our small town, and playing them on that lovely original Nintendo;
- It shows something about who people my age are--people defined in an age where computers became a part of every day life. We grew up around computer games and computer systems, and in many ways they grew up around us.
I've seen the high school youth at my church wearing clothes with old Nintendo controllers on them. I don't consider myself as old, but I wonder if they really know how a five-hour Ninja Gaiden session thrashes the pads of your thumbs.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt; it is more than likely they've seen Back to the Future, or the Goonies, or heard a couple songs from Def Leppard's Pyromania, or anything else from the 80s that makes a flashy knit cap. But videogames have aged so differently. Sometimes I plug in the old Atari 7800 and play through those old games. Some, like Joust, always suck me in. Others leave me wondering how I could have ever played them for hours at a time.
So maybe those kids at my church aren't missing so much since they've missed their chance to play "Werewolf: The Last Warrior", but maybe some day I'll have them over, blow out the cartridge to get it to work one last time, and see what they think.
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