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Tuesday:
Animal Crossing Lives On
Yes, devoted fans, my brother Clint has just informed that I am a "retard."
I’m a “retard” because the "E-card reader is, like, OUT."
I’m a "retard" because I "didn’t even use the Gameboy Advance link-up feature."
I’m a "retard" because I say I don’t care.
Clint says he’ll kill me if I don’t mention some of the finer features of Animal Crossing. And he’s a big kid. Certified black belt in tae kwon do, for God’s sake.
To stay on the safe side: somehow in this game, you come across a Nintendo Entertainment System, which lets you play 8-bit-perfect Nintendo games such as Clu-clu Land, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, Excitebike, and others. You can even upload them into your GBA and play them on the go -- granted you don’t turn the system off.
Clint asks you all, really, how cool is THAT?
When I tell Clint I plan on buying neither an E-card reader nor a GBA link cable, he takes on a tone much like that one professor of mine when I told him I wasn’t going to take another IQ test. In other words: he’s accusing me of lacking curiosity.
“I’ve already played all those games,” I say.
He scoffs. He doesn’t seem to realize that, really, I have played all of those games. Like Pee-Wee at the end of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, I don’t have to see the movie -- I’ve lived it.
Still, seeing as my life depends on it, I figure it merits mentioning.
Just as it merits mentioning that you can, like, connect your GBA to your Gamecube, and, like, go to the dock on the southern side of town (the southern side of Naptown, at least -- every town is different, you know), and there’ll be, like, a boat to take you out to some mysterious island, where you can, like, pick FRUIT and stuff.
At Funcoland today, I bought Light Crusader for Genesis for three dollars. Ahh, Light Crusader and me, reunited at last.
And I got Kingdom Hearts, too.
So why am I still playing Animal Crossing?
Why, indeed?
The rain has cleared up in Naptown. Billy marches in the middle of a square of holes, Wavebird miscalibrated. I hit the A-button. The flame umbrella twirls.
[Next: Day 8; The gripping conclusion]
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