GUMBA

so i just got home after a pretty long night. im high. i'm tired. i'm cold. the very last thing i wanted to do was get on the computer and be reminded of how much i used to love video games. seriously, from the age 7 to probably 12 or 13, video games ruled my life. it started with some detective game called 'sam spade' on the computer. i remember nothing more about it. then there was a game in which i was some robot trapped in a huge building. i could go in and out elevators, onto different floors and into different rooms. it was cool except you could not win the game. in fact, no one ever understood what the point of the whole thing was. eventually you would enter into the wrong room, two darth vader looking guys would stroll in and shoot you. the screen would say something like "you have entered the wrong room and invaders have shot and killed you." real cool...don't give me any directions or weapons and just leave me to roam around some random building....only to be stalked down and killed by 'invaders' who clearly have some sort of agenda...not to mention guns. anyway, quick interruption....does anyone remember prodigy? it was some sort of computer internet thing...some time around the MS-DOS era. all i know is my dad used to 'check the stock market' with it. i always thought that sounded really important. so back to the topic at hand...video games. next came oregon trail. you have killed 17 buffalo, a deer, a turtle and a wild plant, but only have enough room on the wagon for half of the plant. and oh ya, your little brother tommy has died of dysentery. perfect, why shouldn't kids be introduced to hunting and deadly diseases in 3rd grade. let's even make them design an epitaph for their dead family member! i dont know where in the timeline marble madness falls (on computer, not NES), but it ate up a good 7 months of my life. i also think it may have started my love for electronic music at a very young age. the last one i'm going to write about is CONTRA. this is only the last one because otherwise i will go on forever. there are so many others that affected me, but definitely not enough time...RBI baseball, super mario kart, donkey kong (the original), sonic the hedgehog, duckhunt and some game named Kirby on Gameboy. i dont remember much about that except he was this little marshmellowy looking guy who ran around eating things, blowing up real big and flying around. but back to contra, my only note here is in reference to the noise the bridge made when it blew up while you were crossing it:

BOOMCHIWAWABOOMCHIWAWABOOMCHIWAWA

Don't act like you don't remember.

In conclusion, i wish i started on this subject without any real reason other than it is awesome, but here is a video that got me going. it is also awesome. But before you watch, I think it is necessary to proclaim how awesome zelda was and how much i love gumba's.