I've become a habitual user of the IRC we have set up over at irc.dynastynet.net...so much so that it has started to eat up time that I'd use to play games and write for this website. Today, I'm going to make a clean break. Not forever mind you, but no longer while I'm writing, its too fucking distracting to have instant contact with the community.

There was a topic I was talking about with Professor Pew earlier today about retro gaming. I started to think about what I would really love to play that I haven't played in a long time. It came to me during a bowel movement today, Chrono Trigger!



You see, I keep a stack of magazines in the bathroom for such occasions, I grabbed my issue of Nintendo Power from '95 that had the Virtual Boy articles and reviews, it also happened to have the first of a many part series on Chrono Trigger. I was reading on how to beat certain sections of the game from the beginning and I couldn't remember doing most of what I was reading.

It was then that I decided to find the location of my SNES in my apartment. I was lucky, it was actually located inside my apartment. Unfortunately it was in a closet behind my couch behind my dust collecting rack of DVDs. I couldn't wait, I tore through these obstacles with a tenacity of a teenage boy yanking at the bra of his date attempting to touch his first "bewb". I opened the closet and there it was, my good ol' SNES.

I took the box very carefully out of the closet and opened it with held breath. I pulled the Styrofoam packing with a light tug and there it was, my SNES, beautifully going from its grey color to more of a yellow with its age. I cleared a space on my audio cabinet and proceeded to hook up the system as if I was 12 years old on Christmas all over again.



Ok, the system is plugged in, I've got my controller, The A/V cables are all hooked up and ready to go, now to the hall closet to find the game I am so desperate to play. I open the closet and there is my SNES game chest looking at me like "who the fuck are you?" I pulled open the drawer and expected to find my prized cartridge sitting in the second row, seventh column...it was empty!

"Calm down, man. Just calm down and think, where would it be?" I thought in my head and said out loud. I thought for a moment that something was immediately fishy, my copies of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy III were gone too! Something was definitely amiss. My mind started racing, I had to know where my favorite games were.

I finally remembered that I had boxed up a few of my games a year and a few months back in an attempt to sell them for some quick cash to buy a PS3 and Wii (glad I waited on both). Thank goodness all of my auctions were going nowhere and I decided to keep them. I now had to go outside my apartment and into our storage closet (the same place we keep our Xmas tree). All the way in the back at the very bottom of a stack of very heavy boxes were my 3 boxes of, well video game boxes. First box, no dice, it was all my N64 game boxes. The second box, nope, it was all my NES and GameBoy game boxes. Ok, this last one has to be it. I opened this final box and there they were staring at me with what seemed like smiles on their covers, they were happy to see me I just know it.



Finally, I got Chrono Trigger in my hand slammed it into console and slid the power switch to "on" and was immediately greeted with the faux-3D Mode 7 clock pendulum swinging with an audible tick and tock that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention. I was home; I was 15 all over again. It was an amazing feeling. I sat there with the controller in my hands and stared with an open mouth for 10 minutes watching the demo (you know, that thing that comes up if you don't do anything with the controller) twice.

Thanks to the many adventures of trying to find the game and console I only got a chance to complete the Millennial Fair in the Kingdom of Guardia and start the "Kidnapped Queen/Princess" story arc in 600 A.D. before I had to get ready for work, but you had best believe that when I get home from work tonight, I'm going to put like 2 hours into that game.



I really look forward to playing more of it tonight, mainly because I can't remember any of the story. Sure, i can remember some plot points but I want to read and absorb the dialogue like a sponge in a bucket of water. Also, the fact that I am now an adult with a big-screen TV doesn't hurt much either...am I the only person who names their characters in the game their real names? Sorry, I know that's a bit off topic. I'm just wondering. Thanks for reading, please let me know what you thought of this and if you want more of these in the future.