—Notorious BI. G.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

hey really don’t make ‘ em like they wed to. . :
I don’t know what it is, but nothing really does it for me ike my old Siose Nintendo

same replay from me that the Super Nintendo does. There’s about a half-dozen Super
NES games that I’ve beaten more times than I can coun}, games than I consider to be true
classics.
Chrono Trigger: okay, no introduction needed here. Of all the Squaresoft-style
. tole-playing games with menu-based combat, this one stands out from the pack for sure.
‘The characters, the combat systetn.. superb, Chrono Trigger had a storyline that-I think
was probably oe deep for the eight-year-old 1 was when I first started playing it. It
wasn’t that it was too complex or anything, but I just got too damn emotionally invested
in the thing to let any of my characters die. When Crono sacrificed himself to save his
friends...oh man, I can make it through Schindler's List he an crying, but Chrono
Trigger was too much.

Super Mario World: this was the first video game I ever got as a kid. Beating

are important, and when dealing with an end boss, always attack the part of him that’s
glowing red and yellow,

Final Fantasy 2 and 3: these games follow Chrono Trigger closely in their
relevance to my development as a person. These games come from a time when RPGs
weren’t about “gameplay” or “graphics” or “having fun,” but instead were all about
“grinding;” which is basically just having your imaginary friends fight monsters for
- hours to get strong enough to do the important things. And, yes, I'm aware that those
~ many hours I’ve thrown away in make-believe exercising really could’ ve been more

valuably spent spending many hours in real-life exercising.

Super Mario Kart: when I learned to drive in real-life, | was very disappointed to
find that a man in a cloud doesn’t come and pull you out of the ditch when you crash.

Super Star Wars: in all honesty, playing this game is what made me want to go
watch Star Wars for the first time since I was three. So, in short, this game is Jesus and
awesome rolled into one.

But then again, while these games may have saved my childhood from boredom
and physical activity, they definitely had a dark side. Before I developed any of my
many adult vices, my first vice was video games. I was a fiend, | tell you (that’s why my
parents didn’t let me have a Game Boy; they knew that if I was able to play video games
in more places than just the basement, I would never stop for a second). Before I got
my Super Nintendo, I would definitely say I was a good little boy. I never back-talked
my parents, I brushed my teeth and went to bed when I was supposed to, and I wouldn’t
dream of sneaking out of my room at 4 a.m. to get a sweet, sweet fix of video game
crack. I was a wee little angel, to be sure.

But when I was seven and I got Super Nintendo, that all changed. I learned about
violence, and what love really is (SPOILER ALERT: love is extra lives), and that fighting
authority is okay (in my mind, my parents were the ultimate end boss). Video games are
bad for kids; let’s not kid ourselves. You wouldn’t let your kids smoke, so why would

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does. I’ve got newer video games, more advanced video garnes, but none of them get the —

- The Other Press ,

‘this game taught me everything I need:to know about life: it’s hard to persevere, friends :

 

| Super Nintendo, Sone Genesis, When Iwas lead mati man, I contain’ t picture this

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you let them ins video. games? It’s just as bad of an addiction.
: So, Super Nintendo, I owe you thanks: thanks for making life worth living. But |

_also.owe — many curses; curses for ving the only thing life was worth living for.
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Liam Britten ole é
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