A Trip Down Memory Lane

Years upon years ago my sister and I got one of the best presents from Santa, a Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Nintendo, the best Nintendo ever. Of course Santa also brought us the Super Mario Bros/Duckhunt game combo and my sister and I were set. We would spent countless hours playing on our NES, eventually buying tons of games including Super Mario 2 and 3 and my all time favorite Jeopardy.

The only downside to the original Nintendo? The word original. Within a few years, maybe even within 6 months our original Nintendo was no longer the envy of the neighborhood b/c Nintendo was replaced by Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the best Nintendo game ever made, in my opinion, Mario Kart.

Oh how I envied my friends who had an SNES and later a N64. Oh how I loved going to their houses and playing Mario Kart. Oh the memories of hours wasted

Of course even though I didn’t have a Mario Kart of my own I still perfected the patented “girl lean”. You know what I’m talking about…leaning with your remote to try and not make your car run off its course? I not only mastered the “girl lean” while playing Mario Kart I even did the “girl jump” while playing Super Mario Bros. Because everyone knows you jump higher when you move your remote.

Of course, my video gaming days went by the wayside once I realized that no matter how much I “girl lean” and “girl jump” I’d still never be able to play those games very well.

But then, over 10 years later, the Nintendo decided to once again reinvent itself with the development of the Nintendo Wii and much to my massive enjoyment it also decided to remaster Mario Kart in such a way that is pure genius and totally caters to not only the “girl lean” but also the “girl jump”.

Observe:

The Wii Wheel.

“Now making it possible for every girl to kick every guy’s ass at Mario Kart.”

That should totally be their slogan. It would sell like hotcakes.

Actually it already is. My husband and I actually went on an epic journey to get all of the pieces for Mario Kart. The game itself, which comes with a Wii Wheel, we had pre-ordered and prepaid. So we picked that up from my husband’s store and headed over to Best Buy to pick up an extra Wii Wheel. But since Best Buy enables people who buy up a huge quantity of goods only to turn around and sell them for a higher profit, we arrived to find that Best Buy had sold out of Wii Wheels. So we went across the complex and shelled out more money than we wanted to just so we could both play our new game with the help of Wii Wheels.

On the way home my husband remembered that we probably needed batteries so we of course had to stop and pick up an 8 pack, just to be safe. And then we hit up the Sonic drive thru for happy hour and a little slushie refreshment.

But let me tell you, once we got home around 3:30 we didn’t turn that game off for at least 4 hours.

And I totally kicked my husband’s ass more times than he kicked mine.

Thank you “girl lean” All those years of being made fun of have finally paid off!

*kisses*

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