{"id":31819,"date":"2011-12-09T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31819"},"modified":"2020-07-18T23:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:46:01","slug":"a-relic-of-ancient-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31819","title":{"rendered":"A relic of ancient times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m currently at my parents’ house in Virginia, and I was rooting through some old things in the basement.\u00a0 I stumbled upon this magnificent jewel of the past.\u00a0 My mom got this for me back in like 1989 on a cold Saturday morning after Korean school.\u00a0 It was purchased from a Kiddie City Toys.\u00a0 The original set of four AA batteries lasted all of three days as I, my sister and one of my cousins sought 100 lines in Tetris.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t believe I remember all these little details.\u00a0 It’s also hard to believe that the handheld division of Nintendo started with this brick, which actually doesn’t feel so much like a brick any more.\u00a0 Granted, compared to an SP, it’s monstrous, but in my hands again, it didn’t feel like I was holding a hoagie or anything.\u00a0 What an amazing journey it’s been for Nintendo in this regard; what started out as the puke green brick, ended up being the only thing keeping the entire company afloat when Pokemon games continued to sell in the midst of the CD-based console wars, and now Nintendo is among the triple crown of game companies all over again.\u00a0 And now it’s called The 3DS.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there would be no 3DS if not for this Game Boy.\u00a0 Funny how things work out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m currently at my parents’ house in Virginia, and I was rooting through some old things in the basement.\u00a0 I stumbled upon this magnificent jewel of the past.\u00a0 My mom got this for me back in like 1989 on a cold Saturday morning after Korean school.\u00a0 It was purchased from a Kiddie City Toys.\u00a0 The … Continue reading A relic of ancient times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,103,129,15,65,19,27],"class_list":["post-31819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-famiry","tag-motherland","tag-nostalgia","tag-og","tag-travel","tag-video-games","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31821,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819\/revisions\/31821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}