I can still think of various times in my life and associate them with video games, somehow.\u00a0 Good, bad, happy, sad, whatever.\u00a0 The unfortunate part about that\u00a0is that I always re-gravitate towards the games that I played in happier times.\u00a0 The games I experienced during the more stressful or unhappy periods of my life (not that I’ve ever been “down in the dumps” – everyone has their ups and downs) don’t get very many playthroughs, simply because they plop me right back into those time periods.<\/p>\n
Not that they’re bad games, they just weren’t all that great to me.<\/p>\n
It’s not just video games, either.\u00a0 It’s the same way with movies, music, or even sporting events.\u00a0 Various parts of my life can be pieced together by thinking of various other things, which bring back certain memories.<\/p>\n
It works vice-versa, too.\u00a0 If the games\\sports happenings\\movies were bad, I don’t have too many random memories from those time periods.<\/p>\n
For example, I don’t remember much of 1994.\u00a0\u00a0The Blue Jays did awful that year, and the Expos had a fantastic season nullified by the player’s strike.\u00a0 My\u00a0early interest in auto\u00a0racing took a hit when\u00a0an F1 racer I had just started following because\u00a0I thought his\u00a0name was catchy\u00a0(Ayrton Senna) was killed in the first part of the year.\u00a0 I lost a bit of interest in both sports, which was a bit of a bummer.<\/p>\n
Kurt Cobain died some time during the end of Grade 5, and though I didn’t like Nirvana at the time, the image of kids crying the morning after he died is fresh in my mind.\u00a0 One of the girls in my class had her mother pass away after a tough battle with cancer, and it freaked a lot of kids out to the point where\u00a0counsellors came in\u00a0to help\u00a0some of the kids.\u00a0 I was more or less fine, but the frank discussions we had about death kinda spooked me.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, what games did I play in ’93-’94, while I was in Grade 5?\u00a0 Off the top of my head, I can honestly say I’m not too sure.\u00a0 Maybe Mega Man X<\/em>?\u00a0 The release date seems right, although I don’t associate many childhood\u00a0memories with it,\u00a0except the specific\u00a0ones I’ve already\u00a0posted about.\u00a0 NHL ’94<\/em> and NHL Stanley Cup<\/em>\u00a0come to mind, but that was more around Christmas time, and there were no other really memorable games to speak of.<\/p>\n Perhaps there were others…\u00a0 they just aren’t coming quite as naturally to me, maybe because I just choose not to remember.\u00a0 Funny, how that works.<\/p>\n I know this wasn’t much of a gaming post, although it kinda\\sorta is.\u00a0\u00a0I just kinda let my fingers do the flyin’ today.<\/p>\n That being said, I don’t expect to be out of gaming memories any time soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can still think of various times in my life and associate them with video games, somehow.\u00a0 Good, bad, happy, sad, whatever.\u00a0 The unfortunate part about that\u00a0is that I always re-gravitate towards the games that I played in… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}