Growing up, I’m sure that everybody had at least some kind of contact with video games. I remember getting Nintendo for Christmas in the early ‘90s and being thrilled and immensely thankful for receiving the system as a gift. The only games I had for the longest time were the games the system came with, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. I was horrible at both.

Over time, I accumulated more games (some would call “girly” I would argue them to be unisex): Tetris, Kirby’s Adventure, Yoshi’s Cookie and even Doctor Mario. I hated any game that did not stimulate my mind like Tetris and Yoshi’s Cookie did, and Kirby’s Adventure was just fun to play.

Unlike me, my cousins received the Sega Genesis system with Sonic the Hedgehog and Ecco, that lovable dolphin. Sure, it was a nice change from playing Tetris all the time, but I could not abandon my NES. I was happy playing Duck Hunt incorrectly, with the piece held flush against the television because I had a terrible shot. I was happy never getting anywhere near completing Super Mario Bros. and dying the instant I started the game.

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A recent conversation with a coworker gave me the idea for this blog. The conversation started out as most Monday morning conversations do, “What did you do this weekend?” This led me to respond with, “I found a box of cassette tapes and I sat around listening to them.” In which my young (I’d guess 20ish) coworker responded with, “what’s that?”

How does someone, presumably, only 10 years younger than me not know what cassette tapes are? At first I wanted to cry, but then I decided to just write about it. In doing so, I came up with a list of things that my daughter (and yet to be conceived other children) will probably never know about.

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