My 8 bit addiction

It's now 3:13am and I have spent a good portion of the last 12 hours playing The Legend of Zelda. Not "A Link to the past" or "Link Returns" or any of that sequel shit. No I'm rocking the 8 bit classic straight up. Damn it I already have Playstation but that shit's way too hard for me..and all that violence? That can't be too good for my psyche. So once again I'm sucked into the world of emulation. All this time I've missed my NES from junior high...it's long gone and for good reason. I was an addict! Running home from school everyday to play my favs like Legend of Kage, Gunsmoke and the rare Puzznic. I found out about emulators about six years ago but found getting the ROMS (or games if you aren't familiar with emulation) to be a pain in the ass. I never did finish Zelda back in the day...I didn't even have the game, I used to play it at a friend's house. So when I got my first NES emulator years ago I determined myself to finish it. The file must have got corrupted or something because after getting pretty far into the game my progress was gone. Bummer. So I forgot about it...until this guy at work gave me a NES Mac emulator with just about every game ever made on the disc. I danced around the idea of playing Zelda again knowing I'd be sucked into RPG blackhole, instead getting half way through Mike Tyson's Punch Out on an Amtrak train the other day and then playing Pac-Man most of yesterday...

Finally I gave into Zelda..now it's 3:23am and I am on level 6....what a bitch. I'd rather be made to drive through the Holland Tunnel at 4pm on the Friday before xmas then have to try that level again right now. I don't feel so bad about it though, it's all about aspirations. Look some peole want to run the NYC marathon others want to beat the Legend of Zelda. I just wanna finish the damn thing and be done with it. I think I've had enough for tonight though...I mean this morning

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