Why the chip shortage is the perfect time to dust off classic video games. From 1843mag
y mother and father believed that video games would ruin my life. Which is something to think about when I’m at my writing desk and look over my left shoulder to a wall of 446 video games, arranged like paperbacks on 34 shelves in a cabinet six-feet wide by five-and-a-half-feet tall. In the alphabetised vastness of this collection, I see my parents trying to shoo me away from “Super Mario Bros.”, begging me to go outside. It was 1986, and I was seven years old.
– my first real best friend comes back to me, another six-year-old, named John Miller, each of us with a game controller, desperate to stay clear of the jaws of the Smicks.
I made it a kind of mission a few Christmases ago to spend the holiday teaching my five-year-old nephew, my wife’s brother’s son, to play video games. I showed him how to hold a controller – how to move the plumber around with your left thumb in the original “Super Mario Bros.” – before putting him in front of the collection.
It wasn’t always thus. Unlike most other beauty practices, which can be traced back to time immemorial in some form or other , deliberate bronzing dates only to 1923. That was the year that Coco Chanel happened to get a little too much sun on a yacht trip in the South of France and returned to Paris with a tan. Pre-Coco, any signs of sun exposure indicated that one might be a common labourer – in the Elizabethan era, women drew blue veins on their skin to emphasise their ghostly pallor.
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