that was an experience
Kirby explained the Mega Man franchise to me, using the … 40th anniversary book. During the talk, i remembered how he retains a lot of the things he sees and hears in his memory.
We had a talk with his teachers, nothing out of the ordinary, they asked for a minute of our time, and it's interesting to learn, that his focus issues aren't as apparent at school, as they are at home.
When a group of older colleagues got a fit of "remember the good times"—aka: i miss my youth—, i realised, we are back in my childhood days. We had courses of how to behave in case of a nuclear attack, had talks about the state of all the wars, famines, etc., and that's back, so why reminisce about the good old days? I guess male nostalgia is linked to physical prowess rather than the world feeling like a safer place.
Nintendo announced a bunch of stuff, and yeah, Kirby and i will probably get lost in the Mario Bros. Wonder expansion—after we played the Kirby expansion—, what interests me most, is the release of the Virtual Boy library of games1, alongside a hardware dummy into which you place a Switch console, also available in a cardboard version. Now, i played the Virtual Boy back in the day, at the store where we bought import games, and, yeah, that was an experience; so i'm looking forward to learning what people think of it today.
The cardboard version feels like a Bene Gesserit2 test device, but i found no place for a Gom Jabbar3.
Games from the Virtual Boy system are coming soon to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack // nintendo.com↩
Bene Gesserit // wikipedia.org↩
"Specific poison needle tipped with meta-cyanide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors in their death-alternative test of human awareness." —Glossary of Dune // wikipedia.org↩