So from Eddie I would occassionally borrow one of his games that I wasn't fortunate enough to possess. Think about it, that's almost $10,000 worth of Nintendo games in 1988. My friend Eddie had already packaged up his Atari, Intellivision, Coleco Vision and Commodore 64 into Xerox boxes and packed them into his closet converting it to an 'Electronics Hall of Shame.' He had to make room for his 350 Nintendo games. Joe, every Star Wars action figure, enough legos to build a two car garage for his parents and of course plenty of video games. 4 tomahawks? I had none, where's the justice in that? My buddy had every G.I. And 4 tomahwak helicopters sitting idle on his aircraft carriers. Joe so that his entire basement/game room was filled by the enormous G.I. I'm pretty certain that I only paid for about six games in my life, yet my collection was about twenty-five games at it's peak.Įveryone has that one friend who's mother buys him everything. No one actually paid money for T & C Surf Design, yet everyone seemed to have a copy. Some games were borrowed from friends and never returned, others appeared as if out of nowhere, it was a strange phenomenon.

Metroid, Mega Man, Legend of Zelda, Castelvania, etc. But games were expensive! Where the hell does a kid get $29.95? I know I did it, I got games, but I can't for the life of me remember where I got this cash. Anyone that was in my shoes at the time quickly realized that these would only serve as mediocre entertainment until we could get more games. The only games I had were Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt and Gyromite. Besides the robot looked cooler positioned like Johnny Five's younger brother on top of my TV. After using the robot twice I realized that he was more of a hinderance than anything else and that the same tasks could be accomplished much more expeditiously if I just used my toes on the other controller instead. It came with a freakin' robot! This robot would help me play games. Then I turned 10 and all that changed becuase my parents got me a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas. Why won't my parents let me cross the damn street by myself? Will I only be able to watch The Empire Strikes Back twice today?

Where could I scrape up the $2.69 for the new Storm Shadow action figure? Will I be having peanut butter and jelly or ham and cheese for lunch? At that age my biggest worries were as follows:

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