POETRY | WRITING | OLD-SCHOOL | THAN-BAUK CHAIN
Level One Gives Hours of Fun*
*aka torture
With this old game
we’ll reclaim the
great fame of youth.
We’ll find the right
cable, might be
a tight squeeze now.
Japanese quotes,
tinny notes, and
the votes are in!
Play it all day
just to slay it
Hooray! Level…
… one.
We’ve just returned from a two week family holiday in Japan. And after a whole day scouring the shops, we decided a secondhand Nintendo Super Famicom console would be a fun souvenir for the whole family.
It didn’t even take long to set up, although sadly the Space Invaders cartridge doesn’t work. We bought five games though, so not a bad hit rate.
And it turns out, these super simple pixelated games are heaps of fun — the mission is clear, we don’t need to read Japanese to figure out what to do, they’re just not very forgiving — there is no margin for error here. No winning back lives. No second, third, fourth and fifth chances.
