The kids yearn for the mines
These things were NEVER fucking left open at the park near me. Could wait there the entire day and the same fucking kid would be using it the entire time, completely oblivious to your attempts to get him to move.
I swear, I probably only touched the thing once when i was a child. I came back with my daughter a few years ago and nobody was giving it a second glance. Used my kid as an excuse to finally get to play with the thing…
FYI: As an adult, you probably could have taken that kid in a fight. Possibly even if he used the crane as a weapon.
These were the shit growing up
Kids in my generation:
“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”
Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, “Mom, I need more AA batteries.”
I had something similar. Mine claimed 14 hours on Gameboy or 4 hours on Game Gear. Got the Gameboy for my birthday along with Tetris and FF Legend II, but got it a few days early because I went into the hospital the Saturday before.
The present I got on my birthday was finding out I could go home the next day.
Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.
I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming
Are we becoming boomer now? I certainly feel like it
