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I just thought of the girl who was my best friend when we were in the third grade... we were TIGHT and she was the coolest best friend ever because she loved video games as much as I did and she was hilarious and we did everything together and had the funnest sleepovers. Of course, she's totally changed now... I miss her. sad And I miss the house she lived on, and the street it was on, which I am Google Mapping right now. Omg. sad And I miss her neighbors back when they would play Nintendo games with us. They later came to my high school and were totally different, too... *sigh*

I miss having SSB64 matches, all gathered around in the basement. I miss imitating the original 151 Pokemon. I miss playing OoT at recess and roleplaying our way through the whole storyline. I miss catching our favourite cartoons after school or on weekend mornings and then talking about them at recess. I miss having a favourite tree. I miss all the big projects we used to come up with and pursue with passion. I miss how compatible and wild our imaginations used to be. WHY DID WE HAVE TO GROW UP? Her especially, and the rest of my friends... emo

If I ever got offered the chance to be a Kokiri, you can bet I'd take it without hesitation. Growing up sucks.

Maybe one day I'll be grown up and well-off enough to live on Staghill Drive, where my friend used to live. Maybe I can even get the same house. Man, I loved that house. I loved creeping down the stairs in the morning, eating in the kitchen next to the nice backyard, the way there was a secret passage in the basement that led to the neighboring house... damn, it was the best.

TOMORROW THEN

No, but in all honesty, Wayne and I probably pull away harder from Melee just because of the shitstorm it was turned into by the hardcore crowd. They really took something fun and twisted it until it wasn't fun anymore. It's like if you and all your friends went swimming, but you couldn't splash each other or use pool toys or tread water, you just had to do laps.

Galaxy is a different game than the other Marios, that's for sure, but if it was just Super Mario 128, we'd get tired of it. Nostalgia plays a big role for a lot of people, and Gabe Newell even says SM64 is his favorite game. He doesn't like Galaxy either.

But I think why I like Galaxy so much is because it was so inventive. Sure, 64 was as well, and Sunshine weas, and they all are and that's why we keep playing them, but when I saw Mario gliding around a planet with 3D gravity, ala Sonic Adventure 2, as a main part of the game, I was elated. Space stages are generally saved for the end of a game (ala SA2), and awesome, and having a full game of them (let alone two) was enough to get me pumped. I know I didn't play Galaxy as much as I did 64, but I was a kid when I owned 64, and I'm an adult now. I don't have as much time to devote to one game like that, and when you're a kid, you tend to get one game every so many months, maybe two or three games a year, and just play them up and down. As adults we don't get that.

Sunshine was great, too. Mario games are just great in general, so it's hard to pick what you like the most, like with SSBs. I'll always have fond memories of playing the first game with my friends, and the most memories of any game, probably ever, playing Melee with my middle school friends, which eventually I lost contact with, and then new high school friends and even newer high school friends. I don't get the time to play Brawl with them to make those memories, but I still think it's a more solid game. Tripping is dumb, but it kind of just seems like critical hits in TF2 or RPGs. It's bullshit when it happens to you, but it's all luck of the draw, and I like that spin in my multiplayer games. It takes a certain bit of luck along with a lot of skill, so even people that aren't as good can win sometimes.

Also growing up does suck. I really didn't enjoy childhood as much as I now wish I had. But hey, you have more freedom as an adult, and you can buy your own games and stuff. Maybe some day you'll have kids and they'll invite their friends over to play games, and you can give them that same joy that you cherish so much.

Graphic Design final tomorrow/today and then I'm done with school here. I might move in with Lucas in October and get the ******** out of this town. but first I gotta take that Wily down.

All I have to say about super smash brothers melee is 'Wave Dash'. that is it. It sums up my experience with that game.

As far as mario games go I rather enjoy the new Mario brothers Wii. the multilayer screen scrolling action gets extremely addictive extremely fast.

I've never even Wave Dashed.