Where I live there are no arcades, so what is a guy supposed to do if he wants to relive his childhood?
He goes the way of emulation! I decided to pull out the Dreamcast and take a trip down memory lane with one of the first games I ever played: Shinobi.
I fired it up, dropped in some virtual quarters and shazam! I was eight years old again. I also realized something else. After twenty years of playing video games, I still suck at the bonus game.
Damn you, non-animated generic ninja! I had finished this game before on the Sega Master System (yes, I was one of a dozen people to own it), so that helped me finish it once again.
There are a lot of patterns, so playing through the same areas a few times helps to figure out where to jump and when to attack. Kind of like Ninja Gaiden for the NES. Now, continuing in the game at home isn’t the same as the arcade. I dropped like ten (fake) bucks in a couple of hours.
I sure as hell wouldn’t have done that when I was a little kid, because my mom never gave me that much for the arcade. Regardless, I grew up to be a lifelong gamer.
That’s all for this week, but are there any suggestions for next Thursday night? Is there a beloved game you want me to check and see if it stood the test of time? Make a suggestion and I will try to get my hands on it one way or another.
I was supposed to write this on Sunday, but couldn’t. It was my son’s first birthday and we had a little shindig for him. Then on Easter I got together with my family and that ended up being an all day thing. On top of all that were my two midterms yesterday and having to finish reading a book for tonight’s class.
What happens when we get older? More opportunities and more responsabilities. I’ve played videogames for the better part of 2o years now and I still remember the first time I played a game: it was at the 7-11 around the corner from my house.I was six or seven and my dad would have me tag along with him and he would always let me play a game of 
