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12-Year-Old Spends Entire Hiking Trip Fantasizing About Which Video Game He’ll Play When He Gets Home (www.theonion.com)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I'm sure the level of excitement when you got back home and could play was indescribable.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

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…

[–] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

At least back then you still had the manual to be addicted to