Christmas Time

I bought either the *best* or *worst* Christmas present for Suzan this year … I’m not sure which yet

Thanks to some Chinese manufacturing conglomerate, my wife is now the proud owner of a Power Player III (“Super Joy”) console. Sure, it’s nothing more than an old NES system & ROMs of dubious licensing, but it has a lot of old video games that Suzan loved to play in high school (and a few I wasted several quarters on as a child).

So this is *good* because she’s having fun with a lot of games that don’t need power-ups, 3D engines or strange secret key combinations.

However, it’s *bad* because my wife may start hearing the 8-bit overtures from Tetris in her sleep (or I may hear them in mine if she sneaks off at 2:00AM to bask in the warm glow of the TV).

So Galaga & Tetris are being played on a 52″ TV, with Suzan sitting too close in the grand tradition of home video games. There are plenty of other things that were unwrapped today … clothes, earrings, DVDs, cards … but the general silliness of the game fits Christmas so well.

Well, I hear DigDug. That’s my cue to check on the wife Merry 8-bit-mas to all.