Come with me to the minus world

I just found out that Nintendo is coming out with a gameboy centered around the old NES games. They're only offering five or six titles right now, but the keystones are all there: Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, and Excitebike. Do yourself a favor and check out that link I included above. There's screenshots of everything and they even included the themesongs from the games, which seemed innocuous enough until the Excitebike theme started playing. Holy Hell, it was like discovering a love note in one of my old high school yearbooks or something. All of a sudden I was sitting in my friend Dave's room again playing Excitebike and Iceclimber, drinking can after can of new Coke, eating Dorito's and trying to get that ridiculous robot to work with Gyromite. How many hours did I waste in my own room, whispering a made-up incantation designed to heal my stupid Nintendo of whatever was ailing it that afternoon? Not as many hours as I wasted calculating the value of my baseball card collection or wondering how much longer I'd have to wait before girls would take an interest in me, but that's another story (a boring one). Anyway, apparently all this nostalgia can now be in the palm of my hand for a mere $99.

In related news, you've just read a shining example of what happens when I decide to just 'take it easy' on a Friday night. This is why I should always always make plans, even if I don't feel like going out because I've been auditioning for Nic Cage's role in Leaving Las Vegas for the past 6 days. I get home and feel great for the first 90 minutes, then start surfing the net, discover new Gameboys that take me back to my miserable parochial days and ruin my whole evening.