Truthfully, I kinda find i a bit fun. For all I know, though, I think I might just be having that "little kid toy" feeling where you just get something new and you can't stop playing with it.
It's amazing when you get toys that way back when you were a kid, you beg your parents to get them for you, and then when you get them, you treat the toys like you'll never stop playing with them, only for a few months (possibly more, possibly less) and then you either lose it amongst your other discarded toys (especially if it's cheap), you accidentally break it while trying to reenact a power rangers episode (or whatever else you may be doing with toys), or you outright forget about it in the light of your brand new toys. Speaking of forgotten things, I wonder what the hell happened to the thousands of Pokemon cards I had when I was 10? or even my Digivices? Damn, I miss my childhood.
Meanwhile, as I eat these cookies and milk and wonder why I always seem to get two more than I'll usually end up eating, and not whether I should be doing the dishes or not, I begin to wonder how things would have been If I weren't such a geek (yes I admit I'm a geek now and again), If I had grown up without having such immense knowledge (slight exaggeration). Chances are, I'd probably have... I actually don't know. Me and not being a geek is kind of an oxymoron... I mean my first toys that I can remember (other than those huge building blocks I used to make megazords out of up until I was 11) was a Mattel Aquarius. Yes, THAT Mattel Aquarius:
Yeah, I bet you don't even know what the heck I'm talking about. This was an early home computer, that had a rather short-lived career, from June to October of 1983. Yes, I know... it means my mom or my dad had this in the house for at least 11 years before I even played with it and attempted to program things on it. I wish I could remember some of that code now, considering that it used a form of BASIC which probably would have come in handy later on.
Wow, my first picture, and it turns out to be one of my first toys. Odd how I went from computers, to stuffed animals and action figures, to video games, to cards, back to video games and computers again, with occasional card game playing.
Remember those cheap toys that every kid begged their mom for out of the quarter machines, before they were accused of being laced with lead, and being replaced with stickers and temporary tattoos and fake jewelry? Like the super balls that you'd bounce in the house till your mom would take them away because you got dangerously close to her fragile dishes and such? Or those weird plastic knickknacks (yes, I said it), that would break because you never figured out how to play with it right? like those weird puzzle snakes you'd just keep twisting cause you thought it looked fun, or those little rubber robots that you couldn't do crap with, but you thought they were the most awesome thing in the world anyway?
And then there were the restaurant toys... Sure, they have them now, but they don't seem as great as when you thought they were when you were younger. I'm sure there's probably a few stashed somewhere in the house from a long time ago. I remember back when the Pokemon movies came out and Burger King had all those pokeballs that ended up getting recalled, but we kept them as Christmas ornaments anyway, because we thought they were awesome. For two years, we had two Christmas trees: One real one, with all the conventional ornaments, and then the fake tree with all the Pokemon decorations, save for the star. I think that was the Christmas where I had gotten around 5000 or so Pokemon cards, half of them in Japanese.
although one of my favorite Christmases was when I had gotten a game system that I could have to myself: my Jungle green N64 with DK64. I think that may have cemented my fate as being a geeky gamer.
For now, goodnight.
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