By Jamie Love - December 15th, 2008
Good morning, fellow Thumbs! Do you know what day it is? It’s Super Happy Happy Mega-Fun Monday!
We here at Toronto Thumbs know that there are so many ways you’d prefer to spend today rather than going to (or being at) work. Perhaps mixing a drink together from all those chemicals beneath the sink? But before you get sippin’ and slippin’ on that toxic Tom Collins, why not let us distract you with the lighthearted remembrance of games past…
Whenever I moan about not really having a childhood, it’s generally understood that I don’t deny having been a child. As with everyone else, I started on the first page of life. The idea is that at an early age I began perceiving my surroundings and situation with an air of egotism that made them far more serious and thus less fun. Maturity is often gauged in absence, in the denial of that pure, whimsical and imaginative freedom that childhood represents to those wanting a second helping of it. And one of the more serious pursuits in video games during my childhood was the RPG. They had an air of maturity, doing away with all that fast-paced action and requiring a real effort on my part to play. I’d need to devote weeks of my time to the quest, any down-time spent mapping out strategies and making detailed lists regarding magic, supplies, and enemy HP.
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