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On Day One of a three week trip I bought Pokemon Silver the day it came out. I didn't even bring my GameBoy with me that trip because we were going camping on Day Two.
Longest 3 weeks of my life.
I'm sure the level of excitement when you got back home and could play was indescribable.
Yep.
Did a cross country trip from the east coast to the Grand Canyon in a van as a kid.
Stopped at some old family friends who bought me StarTropics for the NES. This was day 2 or 3 of the trip. We spent the whole summer driving to the Grand Canyon and back with that cartridge in the back of the car…
At least back then you still had the manual to be addicted to