Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
I took the opportunity to get on the XBox tonight after chores/treadmill. It was already after 10:00 before I had these things done, so sorry, I didn’t get to Bioshock, but Mac did. I did take a peek at XBLA because I wanted to check out Hexic 2. That is when I saw "Super Puzzle Fighter HD" listed in the Newly Released menu. It wasn’t supposed to come out until fall, and I got super excited to see it in the list now. I selected it, and it is only picture packs. No game.
Crummy picture packs? Son of a b***h!
Best. Title. Ever.
I couldn’t figure where you were going until I got to end. Then I laughed out loud.
When I was 6, I was given a Coleco Ms. Pac Man tabletop arcade-shaped game system as a gift. It took 4 C batteries. I noticed that written on the game was a list of what you got when you reached certain point levels. One of the things in that list was free game.
I was SO excited! I really wanted to get the Donkey Kong game! I must have played that thing for six hours, non-stop (there’s a lot of concentration required to do that when you’re 6 – especially when the game gets faster and faster as time goes on).
Finally, as I was approaching the score I needed to get the free game, I begged my mother to grab the camera, “real quick”, so I could prove to Coleco that I reached the necessary level to get my free game. After all, Al Gore wouldn’t go on to invent the Internet for another 18 years! How else would they know?
As my mother approached with her camera in-hand, I reached the point level, the game beeped, and a Ms. Pac Man appeared next to the other ones that indicate how many lives I’ve got left in the game.
That’s it? That’s the “free game”?!
Stupid Japanese translators.