My Video Game Fishing Vacation

As I mentioned before, I took a hiatus to celebrate the birth of America. That was only half true. In all actuality, I decided to take a brief vacation up in Yuma, Michigan, where my friend's father belongs to a fishing camp. I never fished, but I did do my fair share of wading through rivers and trekking through overgrown forests.

So what does this have to do with video games? Well, with limited technology and no phone service, there were only two familiar, non-nature outlets for entertainment - a GameCube and a Super Nintendo. Don't get me wrong, I didn't spend the entire time shacked up in the cabin while everybody else was out jumping cliffs and the like. I did my fair share of adventure time. Still, my idea of "vacation" leans a little closer to staying inside and playing video games for five hours in a row.

It's interesting. When you spend enough time with a particular video game, you learn something from it. Thus, I'm going to take the next few days to explore the various lessons my friends and I have learned from my games of choice over the course of the weekend. Here's a preview of the posts to come (in the style of Bill Cosby in Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids).

- The kids learn how to play to their strengths on Mario Party.
- The boys learn that there's more to Donkey Kong Country than he had previously noted.
- In a rut of frustration and eagerness, Evan and the gang learn when cheating is necessary in Paperboy 2.
- The boys realize that they're wasting their lives playing a game by the creator of Tetris entitled Wild Snakes.
- It looks like old Evan has met his match when he realizes that his girlfriend is way better at Super Mario Kart.

Well it looks like the kids had some fun, and hey, they may have even learned something along the way. Hey hey hey!