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Nostalgia: When It Makes You Buy Sh*t
vexed alex \| 2:34 PM on 01.11.2008	10 comments

Today in the morning I was flipping through TV and I passed by Pokemon on Cartoon Network. The first thought going through my head was that they totally made the show weak sauce, but that's besides anything that this blog is about. The show also reminded me of my youth. I remembered a lot, including the way I got my parents to buy me a Game Boy Color.

I don't remember how old I was. I was probably 10 or 11. My friends all had their Game Boys with copies of Blue or Red version. During recess while we were waiting for our turn on Kick Ball they'd have battles or trade. And I can't forget the times where the teacher was absent and we had a sub. Those days everyone who had a Game Boy would just sit in the back of the class and just play.

So I remember after about the fourth week of being the kid without the game, I asked my mother for one. She immediately said no. It wasn't my birthday and it wasn't Christmas. I remember just begging all day. Asking my dad didn't help so I decided I'd work to getting it. I didn't realize that my perseverance was something that could be considered cute. I asked my mom if I could wash her car for money. She looked at me strange and gave me no answer.

I walked into the garage and found all the things my dad used to wash his truck and walked outside. My mom saw me walk out. She called me and told me to come inside. I walked outside and saw both my mom and dad sitting in the living room. She told me that I didn't need to wash the cars. She said that she'd take me the next day to the store and get me one.

She kept her promise. The next day we walked into a Costco and bought a bundle. It was the teal Game Boy Color, a copy of Pokemon Yellow version, some accessories, and a strategy guide. I played with that thing all day. The following week at school I was showing all my friends that had the older versions how cool mine was. I mean, Pikachu walked around with you! It was like playing through the cartoon show. I had all three starter Pokemon. I remember all of this crap.

That old memory had me thinking about buying a Game Boy Color. My old one was sent to Mexico as a gift to my less fortunate relatives when I got my Game Boy Advance. That was my mother's worst decision. Yes, I'm a selfish cunt. So now I'm about $30 poorer and I'll be getting my Game Boy Color and a copy of Yellow version in the mail.

I know I'm not going to regret this purchase like I did with something else. I'm keeping this forever.

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9 comments | showing # 1 to 9

Guagloves

Nostalgia causes me to buy Virtual Console games all the time.

DaedHead8

This is exactly why I don't sell or give away my games unless I am 100% sure I'll never want to play the game again (which is a rare occasion).

I learned my lesson when I upgraded to the original playstation. My younger cousins didn't own any videogames at the time, so when I got the ps one for christmas I called them up and asked if they'd like to borrow my genesis, 32x and sega cd (they wanted the snes but I was smarter then that). Anyways, fast forward a couple years, my aunt buys my cousins a gamecube. No big deal, I find out and call her up to see if I could retrieve my massive sega collection. No dice, turns out she sold the whole set, including all my games, at a garage sale, forgetting it was mine. What do I get in return? The $20 she earned selling it. /massive facepalm

Tragic Hero

Yeah I weep to this very day about how I sold my SNES and all the games with it. The only thing that makes me sad is that Chrono Trigger was one of them *sigh*

Samit Sarkar

Nostalgia is the reason I bought all three volumes of both Pinky and The Brain and Animaniacs on DVD. But it was totally worth it...

mistic

I also keep all my stuff to myself, the result is that I don't have to get too much stuff on VC or so since I've still got the original :-)

njsykora

I found my copy of Pokemon Yellow in my N64's old transfer pak a few days ago. Now I need to find the GBC to go with it. The gold for me would be a Pocket though as that was my first Gameboy.

vexed alex

If there was a way to trade Pokemon to you over the internet through a Game Boy I would.

bottled dark

im going to start a new file on my yellow version now.

CCGames Mike

nostalgia is a hell of a thing sometimes. recently i used some of my DMC4 money to buy a copy of Project Justice from my work for $30. For those not in the know, Project Justice is the Dreamcast sequel to the PSX fighting game Rival Schools (one of the most under-rated fighting games ever). Needless to say i broke out the old DC and made a night out of slapping some schoolgirls around with a bamboo sword =)

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